Hollywood Casino's Location and the Game of Thrones Question

The machine floor changes; the building does not

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course sits at coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111 in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Whether a specific licensed title like Game of Thrones is currently on the floor is not something a fixed geographic profile can answer, because slot inventories rotate by lease, popularity, and floor redesign. What is fixed is where the venue stands, and that is what this article documents.

The venue opened on August 30, 1972 as a thoroughbred racing track. Table games began operation on July 13, 2010. The property is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. Publicly published reference sources recorded over 2,480 slot machines as of July 2010, but that figure is a documented point in time, not a current count, and it does not identify individual game titles.

Straight-line distances from the venue

The table below lists great-circle distances from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course to every reference point supplied in the distance matrix. Each figure is a straight-line measurement, not a road distance. Road travel is always longer than these figures, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any pair.

Why straight-line distance is not a travel plan

A great-circle figure is the shortest path across the surface of the earth between two coordinate pairs. It ignores every real-world obstacle. The terrain between Grantville and any reference point includes the Appalachian ridgelines, the Susquehanna River valley, and the road network that follows those contours rather than cutting across them. A straight line from the venue to Pittsburgh, for example, crosses ridge-and-valley topography that no highway follows directly.

Water crossings add another layer of divergence. Pairs that involve Toronto or Niagara Falls require a border crossing at a fixed set of bridges, and the road network funnels toward those crossings rather than toward the shortest geometric line. The same applies to any pair that crosses the Delaware River toward New Jersey or the Atlantic coastal plain toward the shore points. Road distance is therefore always longer than the straight-line figure, sometimes substantially so, and no single multiplier converts one to the other.

Where the venue sits

Grantville is in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, east of Harrisburg. The venue's coordinates place it in the south-central part of the state, north of the Maryland border and west of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The straight-line figure to Philadelphia is 84.7 miles, to Washington DC 104.8 miles, and to Pittsburgh 174.5 miles, which situates the property closer to the eastern population corridor than to the western part of the state.

The venue is a thoroughbred racing track and casino. The racing operation and the casino floor share the same physical site, which is the reason the property's full name includes the race course. Ownership sits with Gaming and Leisure Properties as the real estate holder, while Penn Entertainment operates the facility. That split between property owner and operator is a structural arrangement common across large casino properties and does not change the physical location described here.

If your question starts from "me" or "my location"

The venue's position is fixed. Your position is not. When a query asks for a distance from "me" or "here," there is no coordinate pair to measure from, so no honest straight-line figure can be produced for that pair. What you can do is take the venue's coordinates, 40.39666667, -76.65861111, and measure from your own starting point using any mapping tool that accepts coordinate input.

The table above gives you a set of reference cities. Find the city closest to your starting point, read its straight-line figure as a rough sense of scale, and then use a mapping tool for the actual road route. The straight-line figure tells you how far apart two points are in the abstract. It does not tell you how long the drive will take, which roads you will use, or what the terrain will do to your route. Those answers come from a route planner, not from a static distance table.

What to confirm before you go

The Game of Thrones slot question is a live inventory question. Slot floors rotate titles based on licensing agreements, machine leases, and floor performance. A title present in one quarter may be gone the next. The only authoritative current answer is the venue's own slot finder or floor listing, if it publishes one, or a direct inquiry to the property's guest services channel. Do not rely on a static article, a forum post, or a third-party review for current machine inventory.

Facility figures also change. The 2,480 slot machine figure comes from publicly published reference sources as of July 2010, and the table game count reflects the July 13, 2010 start of table operations. Both are historical data points. A property of this scale reconfigures its floor periodically, so the current machine count may differ. Confirm current counts, current hours, and current game titles through the property's own published channels before making a trip based on any of them.

FAQ

Does Hollywood Casino have Game of Thrones slots right now?

This article cannot answer that. Slot machine inventory changes by lease, licensing, and floor redesign, and no fixed geographic profile can confirm a specific title's current presence. The venue's own slot finder or guest services channel is the only authoritative source for what is on the floor today.

How far is Hollywood Casino from Philadelphia?

The straight-line distance is 84.7 miles, measured as a great-circle between the two coordinate pairs. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time. Use a route planner for the actual road figure.

Where exactly is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course?

The venue is in Grantville, Pennsylvania, at coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111. It sits east of Harrisburg in Dauphin County, in the south-central part of the state. The property combines a thoroughbred race track and a casino on the same site.

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