Est. 1974 · Millbrook Hollow, NC
Two hundred rooms.
One very old tree.
We built a casino resort in the hills around a white oak that was already here when the road was a footpath. Come for the tables, stay for the porch.
The resort
Everything is under one long roof
The gaming floor, the theater, five kitchens and the hot spring all sit within a four-minute walk of your door. The tree is in the middle of it. We designed around it, not the other way round.
Rooms
Sleep in the canopy
Every room faces either the ridge or the courtyard oak. Blackout curtains in all of them, because half our guests go to bed at 6am.
This week
What's on at the Ring Theater
Around the property
A look around
Home / Stay
Rooms & suites
Two hundred rooms across four floors, all of them quiet. Rates below are per night before tax and the $22 resort fee, which covers parking, the soaking pool, the fitness room and wifi.
Rooms hold for 20 minutes at checkout. Check-in is 4pm, check-out is 11am, and late check-out to 2pm is free for Heartwood members and up.
Good to know
Home / Casino
The Grove
Forty thousand square feet, open every hour of the year. Low ceilings on purpose — it should feel like a room, not an airport. You must be 21 or older to be on the gaming floor.
Table limits
What's open, and what it costs to sit down
Limits move with the crowd. Weeknights before 6pm are the cheapest seats in the house.
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The Hollow, our high-limit room, sits behind the brass doors past the poker desk. Ask any host for access.
New to it
Free lessons, every afternoon
If you've never played a table game, come to the pit at 2pm any day of the week. A dealer will walk you through blackjack, craps and roulette with chips that aren't worth anything. It takes about forty minutes and there's coffee.
Play within your means
House rules we actually mean
Set a budget before you sit down and treat it as the cost of the evening, not an investment. The odds favor the house on every game on this floor — that's how the lights stay on.
We'll help you set deposit limits, take a break, or self-exclude at any time. Talk to a host, or call the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700, free and confidential, 24 hours.
Home / Dine
Five kitchens
One of them never closes. Reserve a table below and we'll hold it for fifteen minutes past your time.
Reserve a table
Book it now, decide what to order later
Home / Shows
The Ring Theater
Twelve hundred seats, no seat further than ninety feet from the stage. Doors an hour before, and the bar stays open until the last person leaves.
Meetings
Four rooms from 20 to 400 people, all with daylight and their own coffee station. We do the catering in-house.
Weddings
Ceremonies under the oak, receptions in the Canopy Ballroom. One wedding a day, so the property is yours.
Group rooms
Ten rooms or more gets you a group rate and a dedicated host. Email groups@oaktree-hotelcasino.website.
Home / Offers
Packages & rates
Tap a code to copy it, then paste it into the rate code box when you search rooms. One offer per stay.
Offers by email, twice a month
Rates, show announcements and the occasional free buffet. No more than two emails a month, and one click gets you out.
Home / Rewards
The Acorn Club
Free to join, and it starts paying at your second visit. Tiers are earned on nights stayed and money spent on rooms, food and tickets — not on how much you play.
Tier estimator
Where would you land?
Move the sliders to see the tier your usual year would earn.
Join
Sign up in about forty seconds
You'll get a card at the front desk the next time you're here. Must be 21 or older to join.
Home / About
About the place
Family-run since 1974, and still the largest employer in Millbrook Hollow.
The short version
Ray and Estelle Vance bought forty acres off Route 9 in 1971 with the idea of building a supper club. The county granted a gaming license three years later, and the Oaktree opened with sixty rooms, four tables and a house band that played until two.
The white oak in the courtyard was the reason they picked the parcel. A forestry survey in 1998 put it at roughly 240 years old, which makes it older than the county. Every expansion since — the tower in 1989, the theater in 2004, the spring-fed pool in 2019 — has been drawn around its root zone. An arborist from Asheville checks on it twice a year and we take her advice seriously.
Today the resort employs 610 people, most of whom live within twenty miles. The Vance family still owns it. Their granddaughter Marguerite runs it.
Timeline
Who you'll meet
The people out front
Careers
We hire dealers, cooks, housekeepers and hosts year-round, and we train dealers from scratch in a six-week paid course. Write to jobs@oaktree-hotelcasino.website.
In the community
The Oaktree Fund puts 1% of room revenue into Millbrook Hollow schools and the volunteer fire department. Last year that was $412,000.
Press
Photos, logos and fact sheets are available on request. Contact press@oaktree-hotelcasino.website.
Home / Contact
Get in touch
The front desk answers the phone at any hour. Email gets a reply within one business day.
Send a message
Find us
- Address1 Oaktree Lane
Millbrook Hollow, NC 28734 - Front desk(828) 555-0148
- Reservations(800) 555-0166
- Emailstay@oaktree-hotelcasino.website
- Casino floorOpen 24 hours, 365 days
- Front desk hoursAlways staffed
- Getting here18 miles from Sylva on Route 9. Asheville Regional (AVL) is 62 miles east; our shuttle meets the 11am and 5pm arrivals.