"Best" is rather subjective, but you won't argue with "biggest" once you turn into the parking lot, a massive stretch of blacktop with hundreds of spaces. It then turns to screaming text: "MUCKLESHOOT CASINO THE BIGGEST AND BEST IN THE NORTHWEST." A giant video screen amid the neon shows people winning and having assorted great fun. After sundown, you hit a stretch of quiet, unlit country road, you turn a bend and then - wham - there it is: an explosion of electricity lighting up the southeast Auburn night. The chains disappear as Auburn Way blends into Highway 164. Since this tribal-owned-and-operated casino opened (in a tent almost 10 years ago), Auburn - farmland-turned-suburbia - has never been the same.ĭriving through the city from I-5, it seems like you're seeing double: two McDonald's, two Payless shoe stores, two Denny's, two Wendy's, two Arby's. While it's a long, long way to Vegas, the Muckleshoot has certainly brought some Nevada flash to Auburn and its neighbors. it's tempting to call this city Las Auburn. Gazing over the 25-acre, apparently exponentially expanding funhouse called the Muckleshoot Casino, reflecting on the game (in many senses of the word) it has brought to South King County over the past decade, soaking in its splashes of neon and blasts of adrenaline.
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