Hollywood Casino's Fixed Position and the Video Blackjack Question

The Fixed Point: Grantville, Pennsylvania

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course sits at a documented position of 40.39666667 latitude and -76.65861111 longitude, which places it in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The venue's physical location is the one stable fact in any distance question, and it does not change based on who is asking or where they are starting from.

Publicly published reference sources describe the property as a thoroughbred horse racing track and casino located in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The documented opening date for the track is August 30, 1972, and the venue is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. These facility figures describe a documented point in time, not necessarily today's operating status.

This article addresses the venue's fixed geography and the straight-line distances to reference cities that are already documented. The question of whether Hollywood Casino has video blackjack is a current game-inventory question, and that is not something a distance explainer can answer from fixed coordinates. What this article can do is show exactly where the venue sits and how far it is, straight-line, from the places people most often ask about.

Why Straight-Line Distance Is Not Road Distance

Every number in the table below is a great-circle measurement: the shortest path over the Earth's surface between two documented coordinates. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish road mileage or any travel time in any unit.

The difference between a straight-line figure and what a driver covers comes from terrain, water, and the road network itself. Pennsylvania's ridge-and-valley topography means a crow can fly over a mountain that a car must go around. The Susquehanna River and its tributaries create additional detours. Interstate routing, local roads, and the need to cross state lines all add distance that no coordinate pair can capture.

Anyone planning a trip should treat the straight-line figures below as a starting point for understanding relative position, not as a route plan. The authoritative source for actual driving distance is a current mapping or navigation tool, used on the day of travel.

Documented Straight-Line Distances

The following table lists every documented straight-line distance between Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and a named reference point. Each row is a great-circle measurement, and no road mileage is implied.

Reading the Position: Where Grantville Sits

Grantville, Pennsylvania, is the documented city for this venue. The coordinates place it in the eastern half of Pennsylvania, and the straight-line table shows the venue is closer to Philadelphia (84.7 miles) than to Pittsburgh (174.5 miles), and closer to Washington DC (104.8 miles) than to New York City (140.9 miles). These are great-circle figures, not road distances.

The venue's position relative to other documented reference points can be read from the table. Atlantic City sits at 138.3 miles straight-line, while Las Vegas sits at 2090.8 miles. The nearest documented casino reference point is Wind Creek at 69.9 miles, followed by Parx at 92.0 miles. These comparisons are documented figures side by side, not a statement about which venue is better or more convenient.

Because the venue sits in south-central Pennsylvania, its straight-line distances to Mid-Atlantic cities are shorter than its distances to the West Coast or the Gulf Coast. That is a function of the fixed coordinates, not of any route or road network.

If the Question Starts from "Me" or "Here"

Some distance questions begin with "from me" or "from my location." That reference point does not exist in any fixed dataset, because the reader's position is not a documented coordinate. The venue's position is fixed; the reader's position is not.

The correct method is to take the reader's own starting point, obtain its coordinates from a mapping tool, and measure the great-circle distance to 40.39666667, -76.65861111. The table above gives the venue's distance to many named reference cities, and a reader can use the closest named city as a rough anchor, but only a current measurement from the reader's actual coordinates gives an accurate figure.

No road mileage, no driving time, and no route instruction can be derived from the data in this article. The reader's own navigation tool holds the current road answer.

What the Video Blackjack Question Asks

The keyword asks whether Hollywood Casino has video blackjack. That is a question about current game inventory, and game inventory changes. A venue may add, remove, or relocate electronic table games, and no fixed coordinate or facility figure can answer whether a specific game is on the floor today.

What the documented facility figures do show is that public reference sources recorded over 2,480 slot machines and fifty-four tables at a point in time, and that table games began operation on July 13, 2010. Those figures describe a documented historical snapshot, not today's floor mix.

The authoritative channel for a current game-inventory question is the venue's own published information: its official website, its guest services desk, or a direct inquiry to the property. This article can tell the reader where the venue is and how to think about distance; it cannot tell the reader which specific electronic games are currently installed.

What to Confirm Before You Go

Several items change between the time this article is written and the time a reader arrives. The reader should confirm each of the following through the venue's own published channels, not through a distance explainer.

• Whether video blackjack or any other specific electronic table game is currently on the floor, and where on the floor it sits.
• Current operating hours and any entry requirements, which are not published in any fixed dataset.
• Current road conditions, construction, and the actual driving route from the reader's starting point, using a live navigation tool on the day of travel.
• Any facility figures that may have changed since the documented snapshot, such as machine counts or table counts after a renovation or expansion.

The venue's own website, its published hours page, and its guest services line are the channels that hold the current answers. A reader should treat any fixed figure in this article as a documented point in time, not as today's status.

FAQ

Does Hollywood Casino have video blackjack?

This article cannot answer that question from fixed coordinates or documented facility figures. Game inventory changes, and no distance dataset records which electronic table games are currently installed. The authoritative answer lives with the venue's own published information, its guest services desk, or a direct inquiry to the property before travel.

How far is Hollywood Casino from Philadelphia?

The documented straight-line distance between Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and Philadelphia is 84.7 miles, measured as a great-circle distance. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish road mileage or driving time. A current navigation tool gives the actual route distance on the day of travel.

What is the exact location of Hollywood Casino?

The venue's documented coordinates are 40.39666667 latitude and -76.65861111 longitude, which place it in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Publicly published reference sources describe the property as a thoroughbred horse racing track and casino located in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Ownership is documented as Gaming and Leisure Properties, operated by Penn Entertainment.

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