Lake City Casino Vernon and its owner

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited runs Lake City Casino Vernon. It is one of eight casinos in this guide that Gateway runs, four in Metro Vancouver and four in the Thompson-Okanagan. Gateway describes itself as the exclusive casino operator in the Thompson Okanagan region.

The purchase that put the Vernon casino in Gateway's hands is dated August 2002. In that month Gateway acquired the Lake City Casinos located at Penticton, Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon. The casino's present home on Anderson Way, a building of 30,000 sq ft, dates from its move in 2009.

In British Columbia, BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling, and private companies run the casinos. On this site "runs" names the operating company, and "owns" appears only where an owner or a sale is published. No later sale of the Vernon casino is published. Who owns Gateway itself is not covered in this guide.

The record for the Vernon casino starts with a purchase, not an opening. Gateway's purchase in August 2002 covered the Lake City Casinos of Penticton, Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon.

The 2009 move took the casino to a building of 30,000 sq ft on Anderson Way, triple the size of the former casino. The Kelowna casino from the same purchase took the name Playtime Casino Kelowna on March 1, 2018.

Since January 2025 four casinos in this guide have passed to First Nations ownership, and sales of two more have been agreed. Lake City Casino Vernon is not among those six. Gateway runs it, along with seven other casinos in this guide.

Lake City Casino Vernon keeps Pacific time hours: 10 AM to 12 AM from Sunday to Thursday, and 10 AM to 2 AM on Friday and Saturday. Hours on holidays may change, so confirm them on the casino's own website.

Slot machines on the floor number more than 400. Live table play begins on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 5:15 PM, and on Friday and Saturday at 4:15 PM. No tables run on Monday or Tuesday. The poker game is Texas Hold'em, with buy-ins from $100 to $500. It runs from 6 PM Wednesday to Saturday and from 5:15 PM on Sunday.

BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling for the province, whichever company runs the room. Lake City Casino Vernon names Encore Rewards on its own pages, the same players' card named by fourteen other casinos in this guide.

Lake City Casino Vernon sits off Highway 97 at 4900 Anderson Way, Vernon. Because the casino's pages show two phone numbers that do not match, neither appears in this guide. Nobody under 19 is admitted, and at the door each guest's government-issued photo ID is shown and compared with the self-exclusion list.

The distances below are straight-line measurements between map points, not driving distances. From Vernon, Playtime Casino Kelowna is 46.3 km away, Cascades Casino Kamloops 88.7 km and Cascades Casino Penticton 90.9 km.