A weekend concierge in the foothills
Kananaskis Casino Online, Weekend Hours
The Kananaskis Weekender is an independent weekend guide to Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino off Highway 40, kept by the Weekender editors. Pick an hour on the key board below, and it will show you what is open then, in Mountain Time.
By the Weekender editors Checked October 13, 2026
The key board
What is open at your hour · Mountain Time · the evening runs to 5:30 am
9 pmFriday
| Where | Hours (Mountain Time) |
|---|---|
| Slots | 10 am to 4 am, every day |
| Table games | 2 pm to 3 am, every day |
| Poker cash games | Friday and Saturday nights from 7 pm; the finish is not published |
| Sidelines Lounge | 10 am to 2 am, every day |
| The Ridge | 8 am to 9 pm, every day |
| Pool and hot tub | 9 am to 11 pm, resort guests |
| Hotel quiet hours | 11 pm to 7 am |
One site for the whole stay
At a glance
- Address
- 888 Nakoda Way, Mînî Thnî, Alberta T0L 1N0
- Main line
- 403-881-2830
- Rooms and suites
- 100
- Check-out
- 11:00 am
- Pool and hot tub
- 9 am to 11 pm
- Quiet hours
- 11 pm to 7 am
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino keeps its hotel, casino, meeting rooms and an Event Centre together on a single site. Weekend guests have no reason to drive between their room, dinner and the gaming floor. Altogether, 100 rooms and suites make up the hotel.
You will find the resort just off Highway 40 heading towards Kananaskis, at the edge of Kananaskis Country. It describes itself as 45 minutes west of Calgary. In a straight line, downtown Calgary is 66.3 km away.
Friday arrival and the front desk
Leaving a car in the resort lot costs nothing. Drivers of RVs and trucks pay nothing either; they register with the front desk first, and a stay is capped at 2 nights. Driving in from the highway, you can enter 888 Nakoda Way, Mînî Thnî, Alberta T0L 1N0 into your GPS before you set off.
The front desk asks to see an ID card, a passport or a temporary residence card. A deposit for damage, up to $500, is collected by credit card or in cash and refunded after you leave, once staff have checked the room. Since the check-in time is not published, call 403-881-2830 and the front desk will confirm it. Check-out is at 11:00 am.
The room and the pool
All 100 rooms and suites come with high-speed Wi-Fi, a 47-inch TV, a security safe, a microwave and a mini fridge. Two-Queen rooms, King rooms, Junior Suites and Jetted Tub Suites are each offered with either a mountain view or a valley view. Junior Suites add an electric fireplace. In a Jetted Tub Suite, the bedroom is separate and has a 43-inch TV, and the living room holds a two-person jetted tub.
Guests can use a heated indoor pool, complete with waterslide and hot tub, all year at no extra charge. Its hours are 9 am to 11 pm. The fitness centre offers a treadmill, a stationary bike, free weights and yoga mats.
The weekend, night by night
One door hanger per day, from arrival to the 11:00 am check-out
| Check-in | Time not published; the front desk confirms it (403-881-2830) |
| Check-out | 11:00 am |
| Pool and hot tub | 9 am to 11 pm |
| The Ridge | 8 am to 9 pm; breakfast until 11 am |
| Quiet hours | 11 pm to 7 am |
Breakfast, dinner and late plates
The Ridge, the resort's restaurant, offers à la carte dining suited to families in a laid-back setting decorated with local artwork. The Ridge welcomes guests daily from 8 am to 9 pm, with breakfast available until 11 am. Room service takes over after 9 pm.
Within the casino area you will find Sidelines Lounge, which opens every day from 10 am until 2 am. From Sunday through Thursday, meals stop at 11 pm; on Fridays and Saturdays the kitchen keeps going until midnight. The kitchen leans on comfort food, the bar pours beer and spirits, and the screens carry sports beside the VLTs. The table beside this section shows who is serving at the hour you pick.
Who is serving
Pick a day and an hour · Mountain Time
9 pmFriday
The Ridge
Sidelines kitchen
Room service
Sidelines bar
| Where | Hours (Mountain Time) |
|---|---|
| The Ridge | Daily 8 am to 9 pm; breakfast until 11 am |
| Sidelines Lounge | Lounge 10 am to 2 am; food service ends 11 pm Sunday to Thursday, midnight Friday and Saturday |
| Room service | After 9 pm; how late it runs is not published |
The floor after dinner
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino keeps more than 300 slot machines running daily, from 10 am until 4 am. Blackjack, Roulette and Ultimate Texas Hold'em Poker are dealt from 2 pm until 3 am, every night of the week. Table counts and minimums are not published. On Friday and Saturday nights, No-Limit Texas Hold'em cash games start at 7 pm. A Games Manager or a pit supervisor has the details, or call 403-881-2832.
Neither the main casino floor nor Sidelines Lounge allows smoking. Smokers have a separate slot machine room, well ventilated, behind sliding glass doors in the casino's back left corner. Across the casino, coffee, tea and water are free and self-serve, and servers sell other drinks right at your seat.
Quiet hours and house rules
From 11:00 pm to 7:00 am, quiet hours apply in the hotel. No parties or gatherings that exceed a room's booked occupancy or make noise are allowed. Guests who are of legal age can bring alcohol of their own, but it must be consumed in their room only. Drinking it in the lobby, halls and other public areas is not permitted.
Hotel rooms are non-smoking, and smoking in one brings a $500 cleaning fee; cannabis is restricted to designated areas. Please make sure children 12 and under are supervised at all times. A limited number of rooms accept pets, at $25 per pet per night, with a maximum of two per room. Other than the refrigerator the hotel supplies, no cooking appliances are permitted, and that covers kettles and coffee makers.
The land under the resort
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino counts among Alberta's six Host First Nation casinos. The casino sits at Morley, where the land is a Stoney Nakoda First Nation reserve. The designated licensed charity here is the Mini Thni Foundation. Under this model, casino proceeds fund charitable and religious programs serving the community.
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino acknowledges that its site lies on Treaty 7 territory, traditional lands of the Stoney Nakoda, Siksika, Kainai, Piikani and Tsuu T'ina Nations. In its own statement, the resort pledges, as both guests and hosts in this place, to build relationships grounded in respect and to help advance reconciliation.
Alberta's online market
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino operates on land only, and no page on its own website mentions an online casino. Online gaming in Alberta is a regulated market, with AGLC overseeing it and the Alberta iGaming Corporation (AiGC) running it day to day. To be legal, an operator needs AGLC registration plus an operating agreement with AiGC, and it may accept players only while they are physically in Alberta. The AiGC directory at abigaming.ca lets anyone look up whether a site is authorised. The province runs its own site through AGLC: Play Alberta, found at PlayAlberta.ca.
Ad-labelled links on the Weekender's front page are paid, and each goes to an online casino partner with no tie to the resort. The guide is paid a commission, and which partner appears may change.
Support in Alberta
- The Addiction Helpline of Recovery Alberta, 1-866-332-2322, is free, confidential, open 24 hours a day and covers problem gambling.
- Open 24 hours, free and confidential, 211 Alberta refers you to gambling support: call 211 or text INFO to 211.
- Joining AGLC's Self-Exclusion Program is possible only online, through selfexclusion.ca; the term is six months, a year, two years or three years, and once chosen it cannot end ahead of schedule.
Questions for the concierge
- What time do you check out?
- Check-out time is 11:00 am. Guests who want the room for longer should let reception know; extensions are subject to availability and billed at the regular rate.
- Can you swim after dinner?
- The heated indoor pool, with its waterslide and hot tub, is open to resort guests until 11 pm. It opens at 9 am and costs nothing extra.
- Where can you eat after 9 pm?
- The Ridge closes at 9 pm, and room service is available after that. Food at Sidelines Lounge is available until 11 pm from Sunday through Thursday, and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
- How late do the table games run?
- From 2 pm to 3 am all week, you can play Blackjack, Roulette and Ultimate Texas Hold'em Poker. Before a long weekend, a call to 403-881-2830 will settle the holiday hours, which are not published.
- What age do you need to be for the casino?
- In Alberta, gambling is legal from age 18. Anyone who looks younger than 25 must have valid government-issued photo ID checked by casino staff.