Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

Parx is 92.0 miles straight-line from this venue, Washington DC is 104.8 miles straight-line, and Wind Creek is 69.9 miles straight-line. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The keyword asks about Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway, but the documented venue here is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. So this article can fix the Pennsylvania venue's location and list its published straight-line reference distances, but it cannot measure a Kansas Speedway pairing that is not in the published reference set.

The fixed point this article can document

The venue documented here is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, also referred to in the source material as Hollywood Casino. Its published location is Grantville, Pennsylvania, with coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111.

Those coordinates matter because they give the venue a fixed geographic point. If your own starting point changes, the venue does not; that is why a location article can reliably describe the venue's position while leaving your own route and road mileage to current mapping tools.

Where the venue sits

Publicly published reference sources place the property in Grantville, in the state of Pennsylvania. From the coordinates alone, the venue sits in the Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere, which means it is north of the equator and west of the prime meridian.

Within the state label supplied here, the safest useful statement is simply that the venue is in Pennsylvania rather than trying to infer a finer regional label not expressly published in the reference material. The location source also describes it as being east of Harrisburg, but this article does not add that mileage because the distance matrix here is restricted to the documented straight-line pairs listed below.

Documented straight-line distance table

The following table reproduces the full set of injected venue-to-reference pairs. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road measurement.

Why straight-line distance and real travel diverge

A straight-line or great-circle figure connects two coordinates by the shortest path over the earth's surface. Real trips do not work that way because roads and rail lines follow available corridors rather than geometric shortest paths.

Several things push road mileage above a straight-line figure. Terrain can force detours, water can block direct crossings, road networks bend around developed areas, and state-line crossings can channel traffic through a smaller set of practical connections.

That is why this article keeps the measurement type explicit in every distance statement. The straight-line number is useful for scale and orientation, but it is not a substitute for a live route check from your own starting point.

How to use these distances if your start point is not listed

Your position is not fixed, but the venue's coordinates are. If the place you care about is not one of the documented reference points in the table, this article cannot publish a mileage for that pair.

In that case, use the venue coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111 in a mapping tool and compare them with your own saved location, city center, airport, or hotel. That gives you a current route based on the network you will really use, instead of a static straight-line number.

The same rule applies to the keyword in this brief. Because no documented pair links this Pennsylvania venue to Kansas Speedway, the article cannot measure that segment; the table above is the complete set of published reference pairs available here.

Facility context at this fixed location

Publicly published reference sources describe the venue as having over 2,480 slot machines as of July 2010. The same source set records that table games began operation on July 13, 2010, while the history source states that the track opened on August 30, 1972.

Ownership and operating arrangements are also point-in-time facts. The published ownership line says it is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment, and branding or operating structures can change over time through sales, leases, and rebrands.

What to confirm before you go

Before spending money on travel, confirm the changeable parts directly with the venue's own current channels. That includes opening hours, parking arrangements, hotel availability if relevant to your trip, event schedules, and any access or age-policy details that may affect arrival.

For route planning, check a live mapping service rather than relying on straight-line mileage. For venue-specific logistics, the authoritative sources are the property's own contact page, its official visitor information pages, and any current notices published by the operator.

FAQ

Is this article about the Kansas Speedway property?

No. The documented venue here is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The keyword mentions Kansas Speedway, but this article can only describe the Pennsylvania venue and the straight-line reference pairs that are explicitly published for it.

Can I use the table to estimate driving distance?

No. Every figure in the table is a great-circle measurement, which is a straight-line calculation between coordinates. Real road mileage is longer and depends on the network available on the day you travel, so this article leaves road measurement to current mapping tools.

What is the most useful fixed location detail if I am planning from my own starting point?

The coordinates are the most stable detail because they identify the venue's exact fixed point: 40.39666667, -76.65861111. If your home, hotel, or airport is not one of the listed reference points, enter those coordinates into your preferred map service and measure from your own live origin.

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