Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

Wind Creek is 69.9 miles straight-line from this venue, and Parx is 92.0 miles straight-line.

Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The fixed place this article can document

The keyword asks about Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, but the published reference sources available for this article document a different venue: Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because venue names within the same brand family are not interchangeable, the only defensible way to answer is to describe the fixed location that is documented here and to avoid claiming that these figures apply to Charles Town.

The documented coordinates for the Grantville venue are 40.39666667, -76.65861111. That places the site in Pennsylvania, in the city of Grantville. Ownership and branding of casino properties can change over time, so location and facility figures should be read as documented reference points rather than as a live operational snapshot.

Documented straight-line distance table

The table below lists every injected reference pair available for this venue. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight line between coordinates rather than a road route.

Why straight-line and road distance are different

A straight-line figure is useful for orientation because it shows pure geographic separation between two sets of coordinates. It does not tell you the path a vehicle must follow on the ground, and it does not claim a journey duration.

Road mileage becomes longer because transport networks do not move in perfect geometric lines. Roads curve around terrain, follow existing settlement patterns, cross rivers and other water barriers only where bridges or tunnels exist, and may detour around restricted land uses or state-border routing patterns. In a multi-state region, crossing from one state to another can also force a route onto a network shape that differs significantly from the shortest line on a map.

That is why this article labels every published mileage as great-circle and keeps it separate from any practical travel planning. If you need the current road route, the authoritative place to check is a live mapping service using your own start point on the day you travel.

Where the venue sits within Pennsylvania

The documented venue is in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The coordinate pair places it in the Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere, which is enough to describe its global position without importing unsupported local route detail.

The source text also places the venue east of Harrisburg, but this article does not add any unstated local mileage beyond that source wording. For regional orientation, the straight-line comparisons in the table help show that the site is much nearer to reference points such as Wind Creek, Parx, Washington DC, and the Atlantic City properties listed than to reference points in Texas, California, Nevada, or the Philippines.

Because the keyword names Charles Town while the documented site is in Grantville, the safest reading is that this page gives you a fixed reference position for one Hollywood-branded property only. It should not be used as a substitute for a Charles Town location check.

Documented facility snapshot for this fixed site

Publicly published reference sources describe this Grantville property as having over 2,480 slot machines as of July 2010. Those same sources show table games beginning operation on July 13, 2010, and the underlying track opening on August 30, 1972.

The ownership line in the published reference sources states that it is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. Facility counts, ownership structures, and branding are all the kind of facts that can change after expansions, reconfigurations, leases, or corporate transactions, so readers should treat them as dated reference information rather than as a live venue bulletin.

What to confirm before you go

If you are planning an actual visit, the changeable items to confirm are not the straight-line numbers but the practical details that a venue can revise at any time. That includes the current address presentation on the property contact page, parking arrangements, hotel availability if any, event schedules, age or access rules for particular spaces, and any temporary closures or construction effects.

The best place to confirm those live details is the venue's own contact or visitor-information pages, and for route planning your own mapping app should be the final check. If your real destination is Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, you should verify that property directly, because this article cannot transfer Grantville coordinates or mileage pairs to a different venue with a similar brand name.

FAQ

Is this article measuring Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races?

No. The keyword says Charles Town, but the documented venue behind the available coordinates and distance matrix is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because those are different physical places, this article only publishes the Grantville figures and does not pretend they belong to Charles Town.

Can I use these mile figures as driving distance?

No. Every mileage shown here is explicitly a straight-line, great-circle measurement between coordinates. Real road mileage is longer, and the difference can be caused by terrain, water crossings, route availability, and the shape of the road network across state lines. Use a live map service for the current road route from your own starting point.

What is the most useful fixed fact here if I am comparing locations?

The most stable starting point is the documented coordinate pair, 40.39666667 and -76.65861111, together with the city and state: Grantville, Pennsylvania. Once you have that fixed location, the table lets you compare many published straight-line pairs without guessing. For any destination not listed, this article cannot measure that pair.

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