Where Prairie Meadows Sits and What Its Fixed Location Tells You

The venue a reader asking about Prairie Meadows is looking for sits at a fixed point from which Pittsburgh is 19.5 straight-line miles away. Straight-line here means great-circle distance, measured across the surface of the earth without following any road. The road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish driving miles or travel times for any pair.

The name Prairie Meadows does not match the documented property in the reference record for this location. The venue that the record describes is Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, formerly The Meadows Racetrack and Casino, in North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania. Whether that property offers bingo is not something this article can answer from its reference sources. What the article can do is fix the venue's position and let a reader measure the rest for themselves.

The venue's fixed position

The documented coordinates place the property at 40.21622 north latitude and -80.20184 west longitude. Those coordinates put it in North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The venue's city field in the reference record is New Castle, while the location description names North Strabane Township; the two labels refer to different levels of the same general area, with the township being the more specific documented location.

Because coordinates are fixed, the venue's position does not change when a reader searches from a different device or a different city. What changes is the reader's own starting point. Any distance question that begins with "from me" or "from here" has no fixed answer until the reader supplies a starting coordinate. The correct way to use this article is to treat the venue as the fixed point and compare it against the reference cities listed below.

Straight-line distances to reference points

The table below lists every documented straight-line pairing for this venue. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road distance. A reader who wants the driving distance must measure it separately, because road distance depends on route choice, terrain, water crossings, and where the reader starts.

Why straight-line distance is not road distance

A great-circle line is the shortest path across the surface of a sphere. Roads never follow that line. The land between two points forces a road to bend around hills, follow river valleys, avoid lakes, and connect through towns rather than cut across open country. In this part of Pennsylvania, the terrain is a series of ridges and river valleys, so a road that connects two coordinates only 19.5 straight-line miles apart can easily run noticeably longer on the ground.

Water crossings add another layer. A straight line may pass over a river or lake that has only a few bridge crossings, forcing a driver far off the direct path. State boundaries can do the same, because a route that crosses a border may have to follow a limited set of crossings. None of those factors appears in a straight-line figure, which is why the table above is only a starting point for understanding relative position, never a travel plan.

Where the venue sits relative to the region

The coordinates place the venue in southwestern Pennsylvania, west of the Allegheny Mountains and south of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is the nearest major documented reference city at 19.5 straight-line miles, which makes the venue part of the greater Pittsburgh region rather than an isolated rural point. The state is Pennsylvania, and the documented location is North Strabane Township, which sits in the southwestern corner of the state near the West Virginia and Ohio borders, though the article does not measure distances to those state lines because no such pairing is documented.

Relative to other documented reference points, the venue is closer to the Great Lakes cities than to the Atlantic coast. Toronto is 241.1 straight-line miles away, Detroit is 207.8, and Buffalo is 196.8, while the Atlantic-facing points of Atlantic City and Manhattan are 312.3 and 327.4 respectively. That places the venue in the interior of the northeastern United States, closer to the industrial Midwest than to the eastern seaboard.

What the name Prairie Meadows does and does not refer to

The keyword uses the name Prairie Meadows, but the documented venue record for this coordinate set carries the name Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, formerly The Meadows Racetrack and Casino. The record notes that the property opened as a horse-racing track on June 28, 1963, under the name The Meadows. The name Prairie Meadows does not appear in the documented record, so this article cannot confirm that the reader's intended venue and the documented venue are the same place.

The venue's documented facility profile includes 3,300 slot machines. The reference record does not document whether the property offers bingo, a bingo hall, or any bingo sessions. A reader who wants to know whether bingo is available must check the property's own published amenities page or contact its guest services desk directly. This article's job is the fixed geography, not the current amenity list.

How to measure from your own starting point

A reader who wants the distance from a specific starting point should not look for that pair in this article unless the starting point happens to be one of the reference cities listed above. The correct method is to take the venue's fixed coordinates, 40.21622 north and -80.20184 west, and enter them into any mapping tool along with the reader's own address or current location. The tool will return both a straight-line figure and a road distance, and the reader can see the difference for their specific route.

If the reader's question is about bingo rather than distance, the same principle applies: the venue's position is fixed, but its amenity list is not. The property's own website is the authoritative channel for current bingo availability, hours, and any admission requirements. Publicly published reference sources document the venue's location, opening date, slot count, and ownership structure, but they do not maintain a live amenity schedule.

What to confirm before you go

Several items change more often than the venue's coordinates. The first is whether bingo is offered at all, and if so, on what days and at what times. The second is the property's current name and branding, because the record shows a history of name changes from The Meadows to The Meadows Racetrack and Casino to Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. The third is the exact road route from the reader's starting point, which no straight-line table can supply.

For each of these, the reader should check the property's own published pages before travelling. The venue's guest services desk holds the current amenity schedule; the property's directions page holds the road access information; and the reader's own mapping tool holds the route from their specific starting point. None of those changeable items is something this article can state as a fixed fact.

FAQ

Does Prairie Meadows have bingo?

The documented venue record for this location does not state whether bingo is offered. The record documents the venue's location, opening date, slot machine count, and ownership, but not its current amenity list. The reader should check the property's own amenities page or contact its guest services desk for the current bingo schedule.

How far is the venue from Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh is 19.5 straight-line miles from the venue's documented coordinates. That is a great-circle measurement, not a road distance. The road distance is longer and depends on the specific route, so the reader should use a mapping tool to get the driving figure for their own starting point.

Why does the article call it Hollywood Casino at The Meadows instead of Prairie Meadows?

The documented record for these coordinates names the property Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, formerly The Meadows Racetrack and Casino. The name Prairie Meadows does not appear in the record. The reader should confirm the current brand name on the property's own website before travelling.

Play responsibly

Gambling should be treated as paid entertainment, never as a way to earn income or recover losses. 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738)

18+ or 21+ depending on where you are; follow the minimum age that applies to you.

This article is general information about how these mechanics work. It is not legal advice and not a recommendation to gamble or to use any particular operator. Availability and legality differ by jurisdiction — check the rules that apply where you are.