About this River Cree and Enoch guide

What this site is

enochcasinos.com is a guide, not a venue. It covers River Cree Resort & Casino, the roads and buses that lead there, and the Edmonton-area casinos around it.

It has no connection to River Cree or to Enoch Cree Nation. For anything official, such as bookings, show tickets or current hours, the venue's own site is rivercreeresort.com.

Who writes it

The pages of this guide are signed by the Whitemud route desk. The desk is the guide's own editorial signature, not a company and not a person. A collective signature keeps attention on the route and the facts, not on a writer. The name follows the road west on Whitemud Drive, past Anthony Henday Drive, then left on Winterburn Road.

Every fact on these pages traces back to a published source. Each of those sources is listed on the guide's sources page. The desk claims no visits to the resort and no special credentials. Readers who spot an outdated detail can check it against the listed source.

Posters and photographs

The flat posters of the highway, the road west, the interchange, the map and keys and the transit stops are generic scenes drawn by graphics software. That includes the stops on the PURE Casino Edmonton and Century Casino St. Albert pages, and none of these posters shows a venue. The posters of River Cree's hotel tower and show stage, Century Mile, Grand Villa, Century Casino Edmonton, Starlight and PURE Casino Yellowhead are drawn from real photographs. The camera angle and the hour differ a little from those photographs, and no people are shown: they are illustrations, not photographs. The one photograph on the site is the River Cree sign, from Wikimedia Commons, with its photographer and licence named below it.

Why it exists

Most people planning a trip west of Edmonton ask the same three things:

• How far is it, and which way? See the drive from Edmonton and without a car.
• Where do I park?
• Is it open when I get there?

The answers are spread across several pages and do not always agree. This guide puts them in one place, in plain order: distance first, then turns, then what is at the end of the road.

The host community

River Cree sits on the land of Enoch Cree Nation, maskêkosihk, which the Nation translates as "people of the land of medicine". The Nation describes itself as 20 square miles just west of, and adjacent to, the City of Edmonton, on Highway 60. It entered into Treaty on September 25, 1877, and is a member of the Confederacy of Treaty Six.

The Nation's own account is at enochnation.ca. Visitors are guests on that land.

What the guide does not do

• No bets, no accounts: the site handles neither.
• It does not rate or rank casinos.
• It does not publish bonuses, promotions or jackpot figures.
• It does not fill gaps from memory. When a source is missing or sources disagree, the page says so and points to the venue.

How the site is paid for is set out on paid links. What it collects about readers is on privacy.

A note on the way back

Gambling in Alberta is for adults 18 and over. If the trip stops feeling like a night out, there are people to talk to. Call or text 211, or call the Addiction Helpline (Recovery Alberta) at 1-866-332-2322, 24 hours a day. More on help and limits.