Los Angeles is a fixed point at 34.05°N, 118.25°W, and the nearest documented cardroom to that point is Commerce Casino at 7.0 miles straight-line. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving miles, driving times, highway numbers, or exit names.
The question of where to play bingo in Los Angeles is a question about physical venues, and the only honest way to answer it without sending you to a closed door or a wrong turn is to start with the fixed geography of the city and the documented positions of the cardrooms around it. What this article can give you is the straight-line distance from the city center to each documented venue, the city and state each venue sits in, and the mechanism by which you measure the rest yourself. What it cannot give you is a current bingo schedule, a room rate, a buffet price, or a driving time.
The Fixed Point and the Documented Venues
Los Angeles is a city in California. Its coordinates place it in the southwestern United States, on the Pacific coast. The venues documented in this file that are nearest to the Los Angeles city center are cardrooms, not hotels or resorts, and they sit in a ring that stretches from the immediate suburbs east and south of downtown out toward the Inland Empire.
Every distance below is a great-circle measurement, meaning it is the shortest path across the surface of the earth between two documented coordinate pairs. It ignores roads, hills, water, and the shape of the street grid. It is the only kind of distance this article can state, because it is the only kind of distance the underlying reference sources support.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| Commerce Casino | 7.0 | great-circle |
| The Bicycle Hotel & Casino | 7.5 | great-circle |
| Parkwest Bicycle | 7.5 | great-circle |
| Hollywood Park Casino | 8.8 | great-circle |
| Gardens Casino (Hawaiian Gardens) | 18.0 | great-circle |
| San Manuel | 58.8 | great-circle |
| Yaamava | 58.8 | great-circle |
| Pechanga | 77.4 | great-circle |
| Soboba | 80.7 | great-circle |
| Morongo | 83.8 | great-circle |
These ten venues are the documented set measured to the Los Angeles city center in this file. They are not a complete list of cardrooms or bingo halls in the area, and this file does not claim to be a census of any city, county, or state. The state gaming authority maintains the complete current list of licensed venues, and that is the channel to consult for a full picture.
Why Straight-Line Distance Is Not Road Distance
A straight-line distance is the length of a line drawn through the earth between two points. A road distance is the length of the path a vehicle must travel along the street network. The two numbers are never the same, and the difference between them is not a fixed percentage that can be applied to every pair.
Several geographic features widen the gap between a straight line and a drive in the Los Angeles area. The city sits against the Pacific Ocean to the west, so any route that would cut across water cannot be driven. The terrain rises into the San Gabriel Mountains to the north and the Santa Monica Mountains to the northwest, forcing roads to follow passes and canyons rather than direct lines. The street grid itself is interrupted by freeways, rail corridors, and the Los Angeles River, all of which force detours. And for venues outside Los Angeles County, such as San Manuel and Yaamava in San Bernardino County or Pechanga in Riverside County, the route crosses county lines and climbs into interior valleys, adding distance that no straight-line figure captures.
This is why the article does not publish a driving time. A driving time depends on the route chosen, the time of day, traffic conditions, construction, and the exact starting point within Los Angeles, which can shift the result by a large margin. None of those variables is documented in the reference sources, so none of them appears here.
Where Each Documented Venue Sits
Commerce Casino is documented at 33.998°N, 118.145°W, which places it in the suburb of Commerce, east-southeast of the Los Angeles city center. The Bicycle Hotel & Casino and its Parkwest Bicycle alias share the same documented coordinates, 33.966°N, 118.166°W, in Bell Gardens, California, also east-southeast of the city center. Hollywood Park Casino is documented at 33.946°N, 118.339°W, which places it southwest of the city center, near Inglewood. Gardens Casino is documented in Hawaiian Gardens, California, at 33.832°N, 118.079°W, southeast of the city center.
The four venues farther out sit in a broader arc. San Manuel and Yaamava are documented at the same coordinates, 58.8 miles straight-line from Los Angeles, in San Bernardino County to the east. Pechanga is documented 77.4 miles straight-line to the southeast, in Riverside County. Soboba is documented 80.7 miles straight-line to the east-southeast, and Morongo is documented 83.8 miles straight-line to the east, near the San Gorgonio Pass.
None of these venues is documented as being inside the city limits of Los Angeles itself. They are all in neighboring cities or counties, which is a common pattern for cardrooms and gaming venues in Southern California: the venues cluster in industrial suburbs and inland corridors rather than in the downtown core.
If You Are Asking From Your Own Location
The venue positions are fixed. Your position is not. If you are asking where to play bingo in Los Angeles from a specific address, a hotel, or a landmark, the straight-line distance from that point to any venue is not something this article can compute, because the reference sources do not contain your starting coordinates.
What you can do is measure from your own fixed point. Take the latitude and longitude of your starting location, take the documented coordinates of the venue you are considering, and compute the great-circle distance between them. Or, more practically, open a mapping tool, enter your starting address and the venue name, and read the road distance and driving time the tool provides. That tool has the road network, the traffic data, and the routing logic that this article deliberately does not attempt to reproduce.
The table above gives you the fixed half of the equation. The venues do not move. Your starting point is the variable, and the only accurate way to resolve it is to measure from where you are.
What to Confirm Before You Go
Before you travel to any of these venues for bingo, confirm the things that change. The venue's own published schedule is the authoritative source for whether bingo is offered on a given day, at what time, and in what room. The venue's contact page or front desk is the channel for current hours, entry requirements, and any age or identification rules. The state gaming authority's public list is the channel for confirming which venues currently hold a license to operate cardroom games.
Do not assume that a venue documented as a cardroom offers bingo. Cardrooms in California offer a range of games, and the mix changes by property and over time. The reference sources used here document location and, in one case, gaming floor area; they do not document a current bingo schedule for any venue. The only way to know whether bingo is on the floor today is to ask the venue directly.
Also confirm the address and entrance before you drive. A venue's documented city and coordinates place it in a general area, but the actual guest entrance may be on a different street than the one a mapping tool guesses. The venue's own directions page, if it publishes one, is the most reliable channel for the final mile.
How the Distances Were Measured
Each straight-line figure in this article comes from a documented coordinate pair for the Los Angeles city center and a documented coordinate pair for the venue. The great-circle distance is computed from those two pairs using the standard spherical formula. No road network, no traffic model, and no driving time is involved in any figure above.
Facility figures, where they exist in the reference sources, describe a documented point in time and are revised as properties are rebuilt and expanded. The gaming floor area documented for Gardens Casino, for example, is 59,900 square feet as recorded in the source, but the current figure may differ after renovations. Ownership and branding of casino properties also change through sales and rebrands, which is why some venues appear under more than one alias in the table above.
FAQ
Does this article tell me where to play bingo in Los Angeles?
It tells you the documented positions of the nearest cardrooms to the Los Angeles city center and the straight-line distance to each. It does not tell you which of those venues currently offers bingo, because the reference sources do not document bingo schedules. Check the venue's own published schedule before you travel.
Why is there no driving time in the distance table?
Driving time depends on route, traffic, time of day, and starting point, none of which is documented in the reference sources. This article publishes only great-circle distances between documented coordinate pairs, because those are the only distances the sources support. Use a mapping tool for road distance and travel time.
Are these all the bingo venues near Los Angeles?
No. This file documents 481 venues in total and is not a complete list of casinos or cardrooms in any city, county, or state. The ten venues in the table are the documented set measured to the Los Angeles city center. The state gaming authority maintains the complete current list of licensed venues.
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