The fixed point: downtown Las Vegas at the Fremont Street corridor
The city of Las Vegas is documented at 36.16916667, -115.14055556, and the nearest documented casino venue, The D Las Vegas, sits 0.1 miles from that point straight-line. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any route.
What a reader can take from this article is the fixed geographic relationship between downtown Las Vegas and the documented venues around it. What this article cannot tell you is whether any specific machine on any specific floor is currently a penny-denomination slot. That is a live operational detail that changes by property, by floor, and by week, and it lives on the casino's own slot floor, not in a geography explainer.
The venues documented nearest to the Las Vegas city reference point form a tight cluster. All of them sit within two miles of the city coordinates, which means the question of "where are the machines" is, for this part of Las Vegas, mostly a question of walking distance along Fremont Street rather than a question of driving across the valley.
Documented straight-line distances from the Las Vegas reference point
The table below lists every venue-to-city pair that appears in the documented distance matrix for this article. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, which is the shortest path across the surface of the earth, not a road route.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| The D Las Vegas | 0.1 | great-circle |
| Four Queens | 0.2 | great-circle |
| Horseshoe | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Nugget Las Vegas | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Binion's | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Gate | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street Station | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Stratosphere Tower | 1.7 | great-circle |
| Jerry's Nugget | 1.7 | great-circle |
This article documents 318 venues measured to the city of Las Vegas in total, but that is not a complete list of casinos in the city, county, or state. The state gaming regulator maintains the authoritative current list, and a reader who needs a full inventory should consult that source directly.
Why road distance is always longer than the figures above
A straight-line figure ignores every physical obstruction between two points. In downtown Las Vegas, the gap between a straight line and a drivable route is comparatively small because the street grid is dense and regular, but the principle still applies: a great-circle line passes through buildings, crosses intersections at angles no vehicle can take, and ignores one-way streets, pedestrian malls, and the Fremont Street Experience canopy itself, which closes a portion of the street to cars.
At larger scales, the difference grows. Terrain, water, and road network geometry all force detours. A pair of points separated by a mountain range or a river will have a road route far longer than the straight line between them. Crossing a state line can also add distance if the road network funnels traffic through a specific crossing point rather than following the shortest geographic path.
None of the documented pairs in this article involve a major body of water or a mountain crossing, but the principle still holds: the road distance from the Las Vegas city reference point to any of the venues in the table above is longer than the straight-line figure shown, and this article does not publish that road figure.
Where these venues sit within Las Vegas and Nevada
The documented venues nearest the city reference point sit in downtown Las Vegas, which is the older, denser core of the city rather than the Strip corridor to the south. The coordinates place the cluster at roughly 36.17 degrees north latitude and 115.14 degrees west longitude, which is in the southern part of Nevada, near the state's border with California and Arizona.
The relative orientation of the venues to one another can be read from the coordinates supplied. The D Las Vegas is documented at 36.16972222, -115.14277778, and Four Queens at 36.16972222, -115.14361111, which places Four Queens slightly west of The D. Horseshoe and Binion's share the same documented coordinates at 36.17138889, -115.14444444, placing them north and west of The D. Golden Nugget Las Vegas sits at 36.17083333, -115.14472222, which is also north and west of The D but south of Horseshoe and Binion's.
These are small separations measured in hundredths of a degree, which is why the straight-line distances in the table are all under half a mile for the core cluster. A reader standing at the city reference point can see most of these venues from one another, but seeing a venue is not the same as walking to it, and walking distance follows sidewalks, crossings, and the pedestrian flow of Fremont Street, not a straight line.
What the question "are there still penny slots in vegas" asks
The question has two parts. One part is geographic: where in Las Vegas would a person look for slot machines at all. The other part is operational: what denomination a given machine is currently set to. This article can answer the first part with documented coordinates and distances. It cannot answer the second part, because machine denomination is not a fixed geographic fact.
A slot machine's denomination is a setting on the machine itself, and a casino can change it. A machine configured for one-cent play today may be reconfigured tomorrow. The same physical cabinet can run different denominations at different times, and different machines on the same floor can be set differently. No geography article can capture that, and no distance table can tell a reader which machine is a penny slot.
The honest answer to "are there still penny slots in vegas" is therefore: the venues are there, and their locations are documented, but whether any given machine is a penny slot at the moment you arrive is a question only the casino floor itself can answer. The reader should check the property's own slot floor or ask a slot attendant on arrival.
How to measure from your own starting point
If the reader's question is "how far is it from me," the reference point does not exist in this article. Your location is not fixed; the venue's location is. This article gives the venue's documented coordinates and the straight-line distances to the Las Vegas city reference point, but it cannot measure from an unknown starting point.
A reader who wants to know the distance from their own position should take the venue's documented coordinates and measure from their own coordinates using any mapping tool. The straight-line distance is the great-circle distance between the two coordinate pairs. The road distance is whatever the mapping tool returns for a driving route, and it will be longer than the straight-line figure.
Do not use the figures in this article as a substitute for measuring from your own origin. The table above measures from the Las Vegas city reference point, not from your home, your hotel, or your current location.
What to confirm before you go
Several things change between the time this article is written and the time a reader arrives. Machine denomination is the most obvious: a penny slot is not a permanent feature of a venue, and no article can guarantee that a specific machine will be set to one-cent play on a specific day.
Operating hours, floor configuration, and which machines are on the floor at all also change. A casino can move machines, remove machines, or reconfigure a section of the floor. The reader should confirm current machine availability and denomination directly with the property before travelling, and should not rely on a distance table to tell them what is on the floor.
The channel that holds the current answer is the casino's own slot floor and its guest services desk. Ask on arrival, or check the property's published slot information before you go. The state gaming regulator holds the authoritative list of licensed venues, and that is the source for a complete current inventory of casinos in Nevada.
FAQ
Does this article tell me which Las Vegas casino has penny slots right now?
No. Machine denomination is a live setting on each machine, and it changes. This article documents the fixed geographic positions of downtown Las Vegas venues and the straight-line distances between them and the city reference point. It cannot tell you what denomination any machine is currently set to. Check the property's slot floor or guest services on arrival.
How far is The D Las Vegas from the Las Vegas city reference point?
The documented straight-line distance is 0.1 miles, measured as a great-circle distance between the two coordinate pairs. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time. The D Las Vegas is documented at 36.16972222, -115.14277778, which places it at the eastern end of the Fremont Street Experience.
Why are the distances in the table all under two miles?
Because the documented venues nearest the Las Vegas city reference point are all in downtown Las Vegas, clustered along the Fremont Street corridor. The city reference point is at 36.16916667, -115.14055556, and the venues sit within a tight coordinate range around it. The Strip is farther south and is not part of this documented nearest-first cluster.
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