private nightclub. Smoking Smoking is allowed around the resort; non-smoking sections have been established and expanded in all areas. In 2016, the casino and resort underwent a $20 million upgrade and renovation project to provide better smoke-free areas on the gambling floor, and improve ventilation facilities to enhance all non-smoking zones within the resort and casino. Awards and recognitions Since 2001, Turning Stone has received more than 480 different awards and recognitions. In 2018, Forbes Travel Guide awarded the resort with three Four Star ratings for The Lodge hotel, Wildflowers restaurant, and Skana spa. The year before, AAA awarded three of its prestigious AAA Four Diamond Awards, to the resort's The Lodge and Tower hotels, as well as Wildflowers restaurant, making Turning Stone the only resort in the Northeastern United States to earn both three AAA and Forbes awards. In 2017, the resort was named Best Overall Gaming Resort in New York by Casino Player magazine. All three of Turning Stone's championship-caliber golf courses were included in Golfweek magazine's list of Best Golf Courses you Can Play in New York, and two of the courses were included in Golf Digest'''s 100 Greatest Public Courses in America. The Nation's Atunyote Golf Course hosts both the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the annual Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge charity event. In popular culture American metal band Bible of the Devil recorded a song about the casino, titled "The Turning Stone". It appears on their 2008 album Freedom Metal''. References External links Casinos in New York (state) Casino hotels Native American casinos Hotels in New York (state) Companies based in Oneida County, New York Golf in New York (state) Sports venues in Oneida County, New York 1993 establishments in New York (state) Hotels established in 1993 Casinos completed in 1993 Native American history of New York (state)