Edgewater Casino Resort: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

Edgewater Hotel and Casino sits 76.6 miles from Las Vegas in straight-line distance. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

For a reader looking up Edgewater Casino Resort as a place, the fixed facts are its position in Laughlin, Nevada, at coordinates 35.16049, -114.57305, plus a set of documented great-circle distances to named reference points. Those figures are useful for orientation, but they are not route guidance, and they should not be read as what a car trip, bus trip, or any other real journey will cover on the ground.

Where the venue is

The venue is identified in publicly published reference sources as Edgewater Hotel and Casino, in Laughlin, Nevada. Its documented coordinates place it in the southern part of Nevada, because the latitude is 35.16049, and in the western United States, because the longitude is -114.57305.

Those same sources describe a property opened in 1981 with 1,053 hotel rooms, 57,457 square feet of gaming space, and 755 slot machines. Facility figures describe a documented point in time rather than a promise about the current layout, because casino properties are rebuilt, reconfigured, and rebranded over time.

Ownership is also a point-in-time fact. Publicly published reference sources identify the owner as Vici Properties.

Documented straight-line distances

The table below lists every venue-to-reference-point pairing available for this property. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight line between coordinates rather than a route someone can drive.

How to read those mileage figures

A straight-line figure is a geometry fact, not a route fact. It is the shortest possible path between two coordinate points on the earth's surface, so it ignores the shape of the road network, the need to cross at available bridges or junctions, and any detours created by terrain or settlement patterns.

That is why real trips come out longer. Mountains, rivers, protected land, built-up areas, and the simple fact that roads bend to connect towns all force a route away from the pure great-circle line. Crossing state lines can add further routing effects because the available road network does not follow a direct geometric path.

This matters most when someone sees a relatively small straight-line number and assumes the trip is equally short on the ground. The published caveat for these figures is explicit: they are great-circle distances, not driving miles, and driving is always longer.

Regional position in plain terms

Because the venue is in Laughlin, Nevada, its fixed regional identity is clear even without route guidance: it is a Nevada property in the southern part of the state. The coordinate pair also places it far west of central and eastern reference cities in the table, such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Boston, and west of Texas reference points such as Dallas, Arlington, Denton, Houston, and San Antonio.

The same table shows it is relatively closer in straight-line terms to nearby southwestern reference points such as Henderson at 64.6 miles, Las Vegas at 76.6 miles, Palm Springs at 145.1 miles, Phoenix at 185.3 miles, Temecula at 186.0 miles, Los Angeles at 222.7 miles, and San Diego at 224.9 miles. Those comparisons do not tell you how to travel there, but they do show the venue's place within the broader western U.S. map.

What the venue facts say about the property itself

If your interest is not only where Edgewater is but how large the site is, the documented property figures give a basic physical outline. Publicly published reference sources attribute 57,457 square feet of gaming space, 755 slot machines, and 1,053 hotel rooms to the property, with an opening year of 1981.

Those figures help distinguish place from promotion. They tell you the scale of the venue as a built site in Laughlin, not what any current offer, event, rate, or operating schedule might be. For anything live or changeable, you need the property's own current channels rather than a static location explainer.

What to confirm before you go

Before making a trip, confirm the items that can change after any published reference source was compiled. That includes current room availability, parking arrangements, food and beverage operations, event schedules, access points within the property, and any renovation or tower-allocation details.

The authoritative place to check those items is the venue's own booking page, its official property information pages, and its guest-services contact channel. If your question is about route choice, mapping software will give a current road measurement from your own starting point; this article cannot replace that because it only reports documented straight-line pairs.

If you were hoping for a distance from a place not listed in the table, this article cannot measure that segment. In that case, use the fixed venue coordinates, 35.16049 and -114.57305, and compare them with your own starting location in a mapping tool that can calculate current road routing.

FAQ

Is Edgewater Casino Resort in Las Vegas?

No. Publicly published reference sources place Edgewater Hotel and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, not in Las Vegas. The documented straight-line distance to Las Vegas is 76.6 miles, which is useful for orientation only; it is not a road measurement and should not be read as a driving figure.

How far is Edgewater from Laughlin itself?

The documented straight-line distance to the Laughlin reference point is 2.9 miles. That tells you the venue is essentially part of the Laughlin urban area, but it still does not translate into a road route, walking path, or travel time, because this article does not publish route-based measurements.

Can this article tell me the driving distance from my location?

No. Your location is not a fixed reference point in this article unless it appears in the documented distance list, and no driving mileage is published here in any case. What this page can give you is the venue's fixed position in Laughlin, Nevada, its coordinates, and the listed great-circle distances to named reference places.

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