Delaware Park Casino straight-line distances and fixed location

Delaware Park Casino sits 31.9 miles from Philadelphia in straight-line distance. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The fixed point here is the venue itself: Delaware Park in Stanton, Delaware, at documented coordinates 39.70390833, -75.66886667. If you are trying to place the property on a map or compare it with other cities and landmarks, the figures below are straight-line measurements only, sometimes called great-circle or as-the-crow-flies distances.

Where the venue is fixed

Publicly published reference sources place Delaware Park in Stanton, in the state of Delaware. The documented coordinates place it in the eastern United States, and the longitude and latitude make clear that this is a fixed geographic point even though ownership, branding, and facility details can change over time.

The same published sources identify the venue with Delaware Park Racetrack and note the alias Delaware Park. A documented source sentence also places the Sports Book at Delaware Park, which helps confirm that the article is about the physical venue rather than only the racing operation.

Documented straight-line distances

The table below lists every injected reference pair available for this venue. Each mileage figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road route, so it is useful for orientation and comparison but not for trip planning mile-by-mile.

How to read those miles correctly

A straight-line figure connects two coordinates by the shortest path over the earth's surface. That makes it useful for understanding relative position, but it does not describe the path a road vehicle must follow.

Road distance becomes longer because real travel has to work around water, private land, one-way networks, junction layouts, and the available bridges and crossings. State boundaries can matter too, not because a straight-line measurement changes, but because the road network may force a more indirect route when you cross from one state into another.

That difference is especially important when a venue is near major metro areas, coastlines, rivers, or any place where the map looks close in a straight line but the usable roads bend around obstacles. For that reason, a reader should treat every value in the table as orientation data rather than a substitute for live route planning.

What the distance pattern tells you about the venue

The shortest documented straight-line pair in this set is Philadelphia at 31.9 miles, followed by Atlantic City at 70.4 miles and Rehoboth Beach Delaware at 75.0 miles. That places Delaware Park within a northeastern corridor of documented reference points rather than in an isolated inland location.

The venue is also 90.8 straight-line miles from Washington DC and 112.1 straight-line miles from both NYC and Manhattan in the injected matrix. Farther out, the table includes Midwestern, Southern, and Western references such as Chicago at 642.8, Atlanta at 633.9, Dallas at 1267.6, Denver at 1551.2, and Las Vegas at 2147.4 straight-line miles.

Those figures are not a ranking or a travel promise. They simply show that the same fixed Stanton, Delaware point can be compared against nearby regional references and against much more distant national ones using the same measurement method.

Venue scale and dated facility facts

Publicly published reference sources say the facility opened on June 26, 1937. The same sources state that the casino houses close to 2,500 slot machines; figures like that describe a documented point in time and can change as properties are rebuilt, expanded, or reconfigured.

A separate source sentence identifies the Sports Book as located at Delaware Park, with football games televised there during the week and in the Sports Bar on Sundays. That source helps place the sports-related space at the same venue, but it does not supply current hours, event schedules, or any live operational details.

What to confirm before you go

If you are using this article to decide where the venue is, the fixed elements are the city, state, and coordinates. Before traveling, confirm the live items on the property's own location, contact, or visitor information pages: parking arrangements, current access points, venue hours, sportsbook hours, racing dates, and any age or entry policies that may apply to different parts of the property.

If you are comparing this venue with a starting point not shown in the table, this article cannot measure that pair unless it appears in the documented matrix. In that case, use the venue coordinates with your own mapping tool and compare your starting point to Stanton, Delaware, making sure you distinguish straight-line measurement from the longer road route that a live map will return.

FAQ

Is Delaware Park Casino in Wilmington?

This article can only state the documented venue location, which is Stanton, Delaware. If you need the relationship to another nearby place that is not listed in the distance table, use the venue coordinates and a current map. The only mileage figures stated here are the published straight-line pairs in the table above.

How far is Delaware Park Casino from Philadelphia?

The documented Philadelphia pair is 31.9 miles in straight-line distance. That is a great-circle measurement only, not road mileage. Because roads follow the available network rather than a direct line between coordinates, the drivable route will be longer, and you should verify the live route on a mapping service before leaving.

Can this article tell me how long it takes to get there?

No. Travel time changes with the route chosen, traffic conditions, road works, weather, and the exact starting point. This article stays with fixed geographic facts: the venue is in Stanton, Delaware, and the table lists documented great-circle distances to the reference points that were available for this venue.

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