Boulder Station

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Hotel and casino in Nevada, United States

title: "Boulder Station" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1994-establishments-in-nevada", "buildings-and-structures-in-sunrise-manor,-nevada", "casinos-completed-in-1994", "casinos-in-the-las-vegas-valley", "hotel-buildings-completed-in-1994", "hotels-established-in-1994", "companies-that-filed-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-in-2009", "skyscraper-hotels-in-the-las-vegas-valley", "station-casinos", "casino-hotels-in-the-las-vegas-valley"] description: "Hotel and casino in Nevada, United States" topic_path: "general/1994-establishments-in-nevada" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Station" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Hotel and casino in Nevada, United States ::

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FieldValue
nameBoulder Station
logoBoulder Station.png
imageBoulder Station hotel tower.jpg
captionBoulder Station hotel tower in 2009
locationSunrise Manor, Nevada, U.S.
address4111 Boulder Highway
themeVictorian/railroad
rooms300
date_opened
space_gaming89443 sqft
attractionsRegal Cinemas
notable_restaurantsThe Brass Fork (formerly Grand Café)
Feast Buffet (1994–2020)
The Broiler
Capriotti's
Sbarro
Wingstop
ownerStation Casinos
casino_typeLand-based
renovations1995, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2011
website
architectMarnell Corrao Associates
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|name=Boulder Station |logo=Boulder Station.png |image=Boulder Station hotel tower.jpg |caption=Boulder Station hotel tower in 2009 |location=Sunrise Manor, Nevada, U.S. |address=4111 Boulder Highway |theme=Victorian/railroad |rooms=300 |date_opened= |space_gaming=89443 sqft |attractions=Regal Cinemas |shows= |notable_restaurants=The Brass Fork (formerly Grand Café) Feast Buffet (1994–2020) The Broiler Capriotti's Sbarro Wingstop |owner=Station Casinos |casino_type=Land-based |renovations=1995, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2011 |names_pre= |website= |architect=Marnell Corrao Associates Boulder Station is a hotel and casino located in Sunrise Manor, Nevada on Boulder Highway. It is owned and operated by Station Casinos. Groundbreaking began on August 5, 1993. The project was built at a cost of $103 million, and opened on August 23, 1994. An expansion in 1995 added a child-care facility, an 11-screen movie theater, and a video game arcade. A $50 million renovation took place in 2008, to compete against the new Eastside Cannery. A renovation of the hotel's 300 rooms was completed in 2011.

Boulder Station's Railhead concert venue has earned several awards from the Academy of Country Music for its hosting of country performers. The Railhead has also hosted various blues performers as well. Multiple incidents, including several shootings, have occurred on the property during its history.

History

Boulder Station was built on 27 acre located at the northeast corner of Lamb Boulevard and Boulder Highway. The site was chosen by Station Casinos in 1986, as the company believed that the east side of the Las Vegas Valley was under served. The site was also chosen because of its easy access from the nearby Interstate 515.

Boulder Station was designed by Marrnell Corrao Associates, construction manager was Chanen Construction Company Inc. of Phoenix. Groundbreaking of the $85 million Boulder Station began on August 5, 1993. The project was expected to employ 1,700 people, with approximately 260 employees from the Palace Station expressing an interest in being transferred to the new property. The 15-story hotel tower was expected to be topped off in March 1994, and the project's ultimate cost was $103 million.

Boulder Station's roadside neon sign had been activated by early August 1994, ahead of the property's opening. It was the largest freestanding sign along Boulder Highway. The sign included the world's largest color screen, measuring 8000 sqft and being visible for more than two miles away, including downtown Las Vegas. The total weight of the sign was 1,500 tons, and the creation of the sign's footings required 58 trucks to pour concrete constantly over a seven-hour period. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Boulder_Station_8,000-sq-ft_Sign_Built_by_Adtronics_Signs_Ltd.png" caption="The Boulder Station roadside sign with its 8,000-sq-ft color display—visible more than two miles away, manufactured in Canada by Adtronics Signs Ltd."] ::

Boulder Station opened on August 23, 1994, with a fireworks show. The casino also included a 70-seat keno lounge and a 240-seat race and sportsbook. The 44 table games were located in a casino pit accompanied by stained glass murals depicting 19th century trains. The casino included the 270-seat Railhead Saloon, featuring live music. In January 1995, Travel Holiday named the casino's The Broiler restaurant among the best restaurant values in the United States. It is popular for its steak and seafood.

Operation and renovations

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Boulder Station was built with room for potential expansions. Also added was an 8000 sqft child-care facility, and a 3200 sqft video game arcade. In response to customer requests, Boulder Station opened an 8000 sqft, 600-seat bingo parlor in June 1996. In the late 1990s, Boulder Station launched its Very Important Seniors (VI$) program, offering special discounts to the large number of nearby elderly residents. The program subsequently expanded to other Station casinos. In 1999, Boulder Station and Sunset Station became the first hotel-casino properties in the Las Vegas Valley to offer pedicab service, transporting customers to and from their cars in the parking lot.

By April 1999, there were plans to add a 19-story hotel tower to the property, adding an additional 507 rooms. Tentative plans for a bowling alley and an expanded food court were approved in December 1999, as an early step towards eventual expansion plans. An expansion of the Railhead took place in 2000.

A $50 million renovation began on Boulder Station ahead of the August 2008 opening of its new, nearby competitor, Eastside Cannery. The project included the renovation of the slot floor, the poker room, the sports book, the hotel rooms, and the opening of a new bingo room. Boulder Station's buffet was also remodeled. During this time, the Railhead was closed as a concert venue so it could operate as a temporary buffet while the original one underwent remodeling, which concluded in November 2008. During the remodel, upcoming concert acts from the Railhead were moved to other Station properties. A new table game, Two Cards High, was field-tested at Boulder Station during a 90-day trial period in 2009. A renovation of the hotel's 300 rooms was completed in October 2011, following renovations of the poker room, the Broiler Steakhouse, and the Feast Buffet. As of 2012, Boulder Station included Pasta Cucina, an Italian restaurant that received a "B+" in a review from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

As of Boulder Station's 20th anniversary, the property had retained 115 of its original employees from its opening day. As of September 2016, Boulder Station had 1,200 employees; 576 of them were eligible to vote in a Culinary Workers Union ballot that sought representation from the union. That month, in a vote organized by the Culinary Workers Union and conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, employees voted in favor of unionizing Boulder Station by 355 to 177. Boulder Station would become the second Station Casinos property to be unionized, after the Station-managed Graton Resort & Casino in California ratified the company's first union contract in 2014.

Boulder Station is the second oldest Station Casinos property, after Palace Station. The buffet closed in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada. Two years later, the space was reopened as a food court with several eateries, including Capriotti's, Sbarro, and Wingstop.

Incidents

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In November 2000, a man crashed a vehicle into Boulder Station, which subsequently sued the driver and the car's owner for $21,790 in damages. In 2002, a 30-year-old armed man robbed a change booth inside Boulder Station and later opened fire while fleeing through the casino, injuring a slot employee. The robber was killed by a security guard. In 2003, a 20-year-old man was shot and killed on the top-floor of Boulder Station's parking garage, after previously fighting with another man. In 2004, two men were shot in the parking lot, resulting in one death. On December 31, 2008, a 53-year-old man made a bomb threat against Boulder Station as part of a robbery attempt to pay his medical bills, prompting the evacuation of the casino area. The man was later arrested, and it was discovered that he had no bomb.

In August 2016, a hotel employee was battered and sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old man in one of the rooms on the 10th floor. During the same month, a security officer for the property was patrolling the parking garage when he was beaten by three teenagers who took his gun. A shooting occurred in the parking lot in May 2017, when a man shot at another man in self-defense during an attempted robbery. In October 2017, a woman was robbed of her purse in the parking lot. In July 2018, two people exchanged shots at each other during an altercation in the parking lot. The incident ended when a security officer, who had been shot twice, fired at one of the suspects.

Live entertainment

In 1996, the Railhead began its Boulder Blues Series, a free blues concert series offered each week. Notable blues performers at the Railhead have included Sista Monica Parker, Roy Rogers, Norton Buffalo, Eric Sardinas,

The Railhead won awards from the Academy of Country Music for its hosting of country performers, including an award as the best casino venue in the United States for country musicians. Country performers at the Railhead have included Trace Adkins, Little Big Town, Toby Keith, Merle Haggard, Kenny Chesney, Phil Vassar, Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert, and the Dixie Chicks. Other country performers have included Mel Tillis, Leon Russell, Tanya Tucker, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam, Brad Paisley, Diamond Rio, and Don Williams.

Other performers have included Jerry Vale, Belinda Carlisle, Diane Schuur, Vince Neil, Chris Duarte, Keiko Matsui, Brian Wilson, Wayman Tisdale, Robin Trower, Blue Öyster Cult, The Alan Parsons Project, Delbert McClinton, and Los Lobos. Peggy DeCastro had her final performance at Boulder Station in February 2004, a month prior to her death.

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