A trip out of town is easier when the spending is decided at home, before the drive. Below are the help lines for Ontario, then a plain note on how the Beech Street desk writes this guide.
Written by the Beech Street desk · Checked October 8, 2026
A limit before the drive
Before leaving home, settle two things: a spending limit, and the hour to head back to the car. Jotting both down can help. The Clinton floor keeps the same hours all 7 days of the week, opening at 9 a.m. and closing at 1 a.m. So no night there runs past 1 a.m. Gateway publishes no separate holiday hours, and a call to 519-482-7540 clears up any holiday.
A limit is about spending, never about winning back what is already gone. When the amount is used, the trip is over. Non-alcoholic drinks are complimentary: coffee, tea and fountain pop. That makes a pause between machines easy without opening the wallet again.
Where to get help
- For anyone in Clinton who needs to talk, ConnexOntario is open 24 hours a day, costs nothing and keeps things confidential. The number is 1-866-531-2600; texts with the word CONNEX go to 247247, and a chat runs at connexontario.ca.
- Under OLG's My PlayBreak, a person is kept out of every Ontario casino, the Beech Street room in Clinton included. The chosen term can be 3 months or 6 months, or a span set anywhere inside 1 to 5 years, and it cannot be cut short. Enrolment goes through casino staff in person or through the OLG Support Centre, whose number is 1-800-387-0098.
- PlaySmart, at playsmart.ca, is OLG's responsible gambling site.
- BetGuard, an iGaming Ontario service at betguard.ca, applies to each regulated online gambling site operating in Ontario, OLG.ca among them. Land-based casinos lie beyond it, so the slot room on Beech Street is not covered.
Responsible gambling on Beech Street
RG Check accreditation from the Responsible Gambling Council came to the Clinton Raceway slots in January 2014. Staff at a casino can sign a person up for OLG's self-exclusion program, My PlayBreak. Once a casino break is picked through them, no Ontario casino will admit that person, and the term has no early exit. Phone enrolment works too, by calling 1-800-387-0098, the number of the OLG Support Centre.
About the Beech Street desk
Pages here carry the collective signature of the Beech Street desk. No personal byline appears anywhere; the desk is a label for the work rather than a person. The desk compared its facts with the casino's own pages, Clinton Raceway's pages, OLG and Ontario sources on October 8, 2026. Every time listed is Eastern time.
Each distance on Clinton Casinos is drawn as one straight segment joining two OpenStreetMap points. That figure is not road distance, and it is not driving time either. Nothing here needs typing in. Views are counted with no cookie set, and an outside counter receives your network address, browser name and the page you opened. Beyond that, it stores a single setting, the colour theme a reader selects, held only in the open tab.
Images here were made with an image generator. For two of them, the grey-gabled entrance and the coffered slot room, it worked from actual photos taken at the Beech Street casino, with new vantage points and light. The raceway picture is a generated edit that shows the rebuilt grandstand, with people, horses and vehicles taken out. Its source, a free photograph by JFVoll (CC BY-SA 4.0), is listed under Image sources below. The ploughed field, the main street and the gravel concession road are invented scenes, and no person appears in any picture.
A note for the Beech Street desk can go to news@clintoncasinos.com. Write when an hour has shifted, when a distance figure looks off, or when a reader wonders how the desk puts these pages together. That mailbox reaches the guide alone, never the casino. Questions meant for the casino itself are better put to 519-482-7540.
Image sources
- Picture
- Clinton Raceway track and grandstand, on Raceway Beside Gateway Casinos Clinton
- Source
- Photograph of the track on a race day by JFVoll, Wikimedia Commons
- Changed
- Edited with an image generator: the grandstand rebuilt since the fall of 2024 stands in place of the old one, a black picket fence runs along the track, people, horses, sulkies and vehicles are taken out, and the light is late afternoon. This changed version is shared under the same licence.
Short answers
- Is ConnexOntario open at night?
- Yes, help from ConnexOntario is there 24 hours a day, confidentially and at no cost. Phone 1-866-531-2600, text the word CONNEX to 247247, or chat online through connexontario.ca.
- Does BetGuard cover the casino on Beech Street?
- The casino on Beech Street falls outside BetGuard, since land-based casinos are not part of it. Online sites regulated in Ontario are what it covers, OLG.ca among them. Ontario casinos are handled by My PlayBreak, through 1-800-387-0098 or casino staff.
- Who writes this guide?
- Everything on Clinton Casinos goes out under one shared signature, the Beech Street desk. Personal bylines appear on none of its pages.