Hollywood Casino's Fixed Location and Its Distances

The Fixed Point: Grantville, Pennsylvania

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course sits at 40.39666667 degrees north latitude and -76.65861111 degrees west longitude, which places it in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The venue opened on August 30, 1972, and its documented facility figures include 2,480 slot machines as of a publicly published reference source dated July 2010, with table games beginning operation on July 13, 2010. The property is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment, and these figures describe a documented point in time rather than today's live count.

This article is about the venue's fixed geographic position and how a reader can understand distances to it. The question of whether Hollywood Casino has electronic table games is a current-operations question that changes over time, and this article does not hold a live answer to it. What it does hold is the venue's documented location, the straight-line distances from that location to a large set of reference points, and the structural explanation of why road distance always differs from straight-line distance.

Straight-Line Distance Is Not Road Distance

The only distances this article publishes are great-circle distances, also called straight-line or as-the-crow-flies distances. A straight-line measurement is the shortest path over the Earth's surface between two coordinate pairs, with no regard for roads, terrain, water, or state borders. Road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish road mileage or any travel time.

The reason the gap between straight-line and road distance can be large is structural. A straight line ignores the Appalachian ridges that run through central Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River crossings, the curvature of highway interchanges, and the fact that a driver cannot travel through a mountain or across a reservoir. Road networks follow valleys, bridge crossings, and existing corridors, which adds miles that no straight-line figure can capture.

Documented Straight-Line Distances from Hollywood Casino

The table below lists every reference point for which a straight-line distance from Hollywood Casino is documented in publicly published reference sources. Every figure is a great-circle measurement in miles, and every figure carries the same caveat: it is not a driving distance.

Where Grantville Sits in the Region

Grantville, Pennsylvania, is the fixed point for Hollywood Casino, and the coordinates support a clear regional orientation. The venue sits east of Harrisburg, the state capital, and the documented straight-line distance to Philadelphia is 84.7 miles, while Washington DC is 104.8 miles straight-line and New York City is 140.9 miles straight-line. Those three figures place the venue in south-central Pennsylvania, within the broader Mid-Atlantic corridor but removed from the coastal plain.

The straight-line distances to Pittsburgh, at 174.5 miles, and to Buffalo, at 206.7 miles, show the venue's position relative to the western part of the state and the Great Lakes. The venue is not on a coast, not in a major city, and not near a state border in a way that changes its character; it is an inland Pennsylvania location served by the regional road network, and every road trip to it will be longer than the straight-line figures above.

If the Question Includes "From Me" or "My Location"

When a reader asks how far Hollywood Casino is from their own location, the reference point does not exist in any fixed dataset. The venue's position is fixed at the coordinates given above, but a reader's starting point is not. This article therefore cannot measure a distance from an unspecified "me" or "here," and it will not guess a city on the reader's behalf.

The correct method is to take the reader's own coordinates or city, then compare them against the fixed coordinates of Hollywood Casino. The table above provides a large set of documented reference points, and a reader whose starting city appears in that table can read the straight-line figure directly. A reader whose starting point is not in the table can use any mapping tool that accepts latitude and longitude, entering 40.39666667, -76.65861111 as the destination, and read the straight-line or road distance that the tool reports for their specific route.

What to Confirm Before You Go

Several items about Hollywood Casino change over time and are not held in this article. The current availability of electronic table games, the current count of slot machines and table games, the operating hours, and any event schedule all live on the property's own published pages and guest services channels. A reader planning a visit should confirm those items through the venue's official website or by contacting the property directly, because the documented figures in this article describe a point in time and not today's live status.

The same applies to any travel planning. Road distance, driving time, and the best route all depend on the reader's starting point, the date of travel, and current road conditions, none of which this article can know. The straight-line distances above are useful for understanding relative position, but they are not a travel plan.

FAQ

Does Hollywood Casino have electronic table games?

This article does not hold a live answer to that question. The availability of electronic table games at any venue changes over time as operators adjust their floor mix. The authoritative current answer lives on the property's own published pages or through its guest services channel, and a reader should confirm there before travelling.

How far is Hollywood Casino from Philadelphia?

The documented straight-line distance from Hollywood Casino to 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 reader should use a mapping tool with their specific starting address to get a road distance.

What city is Hollywood Casino in?

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course is located in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The venue's documented coordinates are 40.39666667 degrees north latitude and -76.65861111 degrees west longitude, which place it east of Harrisburg in south-central Pennsylvania.

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