Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa
The Agua Caliente Casino is a gambling facility, run by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, in Rancho Mirage, California. The facility has over of gambling floor. The casino completed a 16-story, hotel tower which opened on April 18, 2008. The tower is the third-tallest building in the Inland Empire. The paved and landscaped parking lot on the property was, nearly 40 years before, a sandy patch of desert, across which Jonathan Winters drove a moving van, in the film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". The Agua Caliente Band  also runs the ‘’’Spa Resort and Casino’’’ in nearby Palm Springs, California, which became Agua Caliente Casino Palm Springs in 2019. History. On March 14, 2000, the band announced plans for the $80-million Agua Caliente Casino. The Agua Caliente Casino opened on April 6, 2001.