Seminole Casino Brighton

Okeechobee, FL

Seminole Casino Brighton is a 27,000-square-foot casino with over 400 Las Vegas style slot machines, nine tables offering live Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold'em, and I Luv Suits Poker, and  High Stakes Bingo Thursday - Sunday.

Guests enjoy a casual dining atmosphere at the Josiah Restaurant offering a selection of beers, wines, spirits and handcrafted cocktails. It features a hand painted wall mural and many historic photographs depicting Seminole culture. Josiah Lounge is located on the casino floor and features ice-cold beer and a selection of wines, spirits and cocktail specials.

A "Topping Out" ceremony was held on June 27, 2024 at the site of the new Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino, which is scheduled to open in early 2025.

The new resort, which will replace the existing SeminoleCasinoBrighton (first opened in 1980), will include a casino with a total of nearly 38,000 square feet, including space for a total of 640 slot machines and 18 tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other house-banked card games. Included in the totals are a smoke-free gaming space with 104 slot machines and a high-limit gaming area with 42 slot machines and four table games.

Dining options will include a 24-hour restaurant with 126 seats (EE-TO-LEE-KEE GRILL), a steak house (Josiah Steakhouse) with 62 seats and a fast-service and carry-out cafe offering a combination of items from a coffee bar (Constant Grind Bistro) and pizza kitchen (Slice). An indoor event space with 400 seats for banquet events or bingo games, or 900 seats set up as a performance hall.

In a first for any SeminoleCasino, the new resort will also include a ten-lane bowling alley (Brighton Bay Bowling) of 7,044 square feet with seats for dining.

The complex will include the first hotel to be built on the Brighton Seminole Reservation. It will feature 100 guest rooms on four stories, totaling 72,000 square feet. Guest rooms will include a mix of rooms with either one king bed or two queen beds, plus three suites and a fitness center.

The resort's new name, Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino, salutes popular sportfishing sites of nearby Lake Okeechobee, where Fisheating Bay is a little more than two miles from the new hotel and casino. Fisheating Bay and Fisheating Creek get their name from the Seminole name recorded on a military map of 1839, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, translated as "the river where fish are eaten."