Buffalo Run Casino & Resort

The hotel offers 96 guest rooms across the property's tower, with room types ranging from standard kings and double-queens through Deluxe Suites and Standard Suites. Rooms are modern construction with current furnishings — comfortable beds with white linens, 32-inch LCD flat-screen televisions, work desks, in-room coffee makers, mini-refrigerators, microwaves, and in-room safes. Free wired and wireless high-speed internet is provided throughout the property. Suites add expanded floor space, separate sitting areas, and upgraded bathroom amenities.

Standard property amenities include an indoor swimming pool, a fitness center with cardio equipment and free weights, a gift shop, an executive boardroom available to corporate guests, business center facilities with computers and printing, and guest laundry facilities. A complimentary continental breakfast is served Monday through Friday from 7am to 10am for hotel guests. The property has two indoor Topgolf bays available to hotel guests and casino visitors — a distinctive amenity not typically found at small-town hotels and a particular draw for evening entertainment.

The hotel is 100% non-smoking and 100% pet-free. The 21-and-over policy applies to room bookings — a guest must be 21 or older to book a room. The policy reflects the broader casino property's age restrictions and means that families with children should book elsewhere (the Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express, or Microtel Inn are the family-appropriate alternatives on the east side of Miami). For travelers 21 and older without children, the policy is essentially a non-issue and the integrated property experience is generally regarded as well above what the standard limited-service chain hotels offer.

The casino floor features more than 1,000 electronic gaming machines plus table games including blackjack, poker, and other standard casino offerings. Gaming is the property's primary revenue driver and the floor operates 24 hours a day. The age restriction (21+) is strictly enforced and IDs are checked at the casino floor entrances. For travelers interested in casino gaming, Buffalo Run is the most substantial gaming property in northeast Oklahoma and is meaningfully larger than the smaller tribal-owned casinos in surrounding small towns.

The Peoria Showplace is the property's substantial indoor concert venue, hosting touring musical acts and entertainment events throughout the year. Recent and ongoing programming has included country music acts, classic rock tours, comedy shows, and similar regional-tour-circuit acts. Ticket prices vary by event and are typically in the $30 to $100 range for the standard show. The Peoria Showplace's combination with the on-site hotel and dining options makes Buffalo Run a natural one-stop entertainment evening — dinner at Coal Creek, the show at the Peoria Showplace, and a few hours at the casino afterward, all without leaving the property.

The outdoor amphitheater hosts seasonal outdoor concerts and events, generally during the warm-weather months from spring through fall. The Player's Lounge is the property's bar and lounge space with regular live music programming. The Bistro is the casual all-day restaurant option for breakfast, lunch, and casual dining; Coal Creek is the upscale dinner steakhouse covered in detail in its own entry. Buffet service operates during certain hours and provides a high-volume casual dining option as an alternative to the table-service restaurants.

The Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is the federal Indian nation that owns and operates the Buffalo Run property. The tribe is a confederation of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians united into a single tribe in 1854 — all of them originally Illinois Confederation peoples whose ancestral homelands were in the upper Mississippi River watershed across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri. The federal Indian removal policies of the 1820s through 1850s relocated the tribe through Missouri, then Kansas, and finally to northeast Oklahoma in 1867 under the Omnibus Treaty.

The tribe lost federal recognition in 1959 under the federal termination policies of the 1950s and was restored to federal recognition in 1978 — a pattern shared by several of the Ottawa County tribes. The tribal headquarters and government operations are in Miami, and the tribe operates substantial governmental services, economic enterprises, cultural programs, and community institutions across northeast Oklahoma. The Buffalo Run property is one of the tribe's flagship economic enterprises and supports the broader tribal government and community programs through its operating revenues.

For Route 66 travelers staying at the property, the tribal ownership is part of what makes Buffalo Run distinctive — this is not a corporate-chain casino, it is a Native American-owned property operating on tribal jurisdictional land with the broader tribal government context behind it. Travelers interested in the broader nine-tribes story of Ottawa County can combine a Buffalo Run stay with visits to the Dobson Museum (where the nine-tribes exhibit provides context), the Modoc Tribal Complex (where the small tribal library is open to visitors), and the various other tribal complexes scattered across the Miami area.

Rates typically run $100 to $180 per night for standard rooms depending on season and demand, with Deluxe Suites and other premium rooms $40 to $80 above the standard rate. Rates rise during major Peoria Showplace event nights and during peak summer Route 66 travel weekends; weeknight rates outside event nights are typically at the lower end of the range. Bookings are made through the property website (buffalorun.com), through standard travel booking platforms, or directly by phone at (918) 542-7140.

Compared to the east-side Miami chain hotels (Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Microtel Inn), Buffalo Run offers a meaningfully more substantial property experience — the on-site casino, the concerts, the Topgolf bays, the upscale Coal Creek restaurant, and the broader integrated-resort feel that the chain hotels do not attempt. The trade-offs are the 21+ policy (which makes Buffalo Run unsuitable for travelers with children), the property's distance from downtown Miami (5-10 minutes farther from the Coleman Theatre and Waylan's than the east-side hotels), and the higher rate structure during event nights.

For travelers 21+ who want the integrated-resort experience and who are interested in casino gaming, the Peoria Showplace concert programming, or a more substantial dinner experience than the downtown Miami options provide, Buffalo Run is the recommended choice. For travelers with children, travelers prioritizing the closest possible proximity to downtown Miami attractions, or travelers wanting standard limited-service chain hotel experience at predictable Hilton or IHG points-earning rates, the east-side chain options are the better fit.