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Heritage Stakes

A Mountain Built for a Resort

Genting Highlands is the only place in Malaysia where a land-based casino has ever been licensed to operate — and that fact has an engineering history behind it.

1965work on the access road is understood to have begun (verify)
≈ 1,865 melevation of the summit plateau (verify)
1the only land-based casino licence in the country

What this site covers

This is an independent guide to how Genting Highlands was built: the road, the cable car, the hotels, and the single casino licence that made the resort possible in the first place. It does not describe or promote casino games.

Start with the timeline

The fastest way into the story is the decade-by-decade timeline, which lines up construction milestones against the mountain’s elevation.