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

Wind Creek is 69.9 miles straight-line from this venue, Parx is 92.0 miles straight-line, Washington DC is 104.8 miles straight-line, and the other documented reference points are listed below with the same straight-line measurement basis. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The fixed place this article can identify

The keyword asks for Hollywood Casino Bay St Louis MS, but the publicly published reference sources attached to this article identify a different property: Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. That means this article cannot place a Mississippi venue, and it should be read as a location note for the Grantville property only.

The documented coordinates for the Grantville venue are 40.39666667 latitude and -76.65861111 longitude. Its published location is Grantville, Pennsylvania, and ownership and branding of casino properties can change over time.

Documented straight-line distances from the Grantville venue

Every figure in the table below is a great-circle measurement between the venue coordinates and a named reference point in publicly published reference sources. Great-circle distance is the same idea as straight-line or as-the-crow-flies distance; it is not a road route.

Why straight-line distance and real travel differ

A straight-line measurement connects two coordinates across the map without following roads. Real travel has to obey the road network, so it bends around local street patterns, limited crossings, one-way systems, property access points, and state-line routing choices.

Water and terrain also matter. Rivers, bays, coastlines, hills, and other physical barriers can force a longer route than the direct great-circle line suggests, and the same is true when the usable road network does not run in the same direction as the line between two points.

That is why the distance caveat matters here: driving is always longer than the great-circle figure. If you need the road number for a specific trip, the right place to get it is a live mapping service using your exact starting point on the day you travel.

Where the venue sits within Pennsylvania

The documented city and state are Grantville, Pennsylvania. The coordinates place the venue in Pennsylvania, and the longitude value is west of the prime meridian while the latitude value is north of the equator.

The source text also places the property east of Harrisburg, but this article does not add any further directional claims beyond what the published references state and what the coordinates themselves support. For a reader planning a trip, the most useful fixed facts are the city, the state, and the coordinates.

What the facility figures do and do not tell you

Publicly published reference sources describe the venue as having over 2,480 slot machines as of July 2010. They also record that table games began operation on July 13, 2010, and the track opened on August 30, 1972.

Those figures help identify the place historically, but they do not answer live questions such as current floor layout, present operating areas, or today's amenities. Facility counts, ownership wording, and branding can all change as properties are rebuilt, expanded, sold, or rebranded.

If you were searching for Bay St Louis, what this article cannot measure

The keyword names Hollywood Casino Bay St Louis MS, but no venue row for a Mississippi property appears in the published references attached to this page. Because of that, this article cannot truthfully give a coordinate, city placement, or straight-line distance table for Bay St Louis.

It also cannot measure the specific pair implied by the keyword, because there is no documented Bay St Louis coordinate in the available references. What it can do is make clear that the fixed, documented venue here is in Grantville, Pennsylvania, not in Mississippi.

What to confirm before you go

Before spending money on travel, confirm the items that change: the venue name in current use, the exact entrance and parking arrangement, current hours for the casino and any non-casino facilities, and whether the property map on the venue's own site matches the part of the complex you intend to visit. The authoritative current answer lives on the property's own official location, contact, and visitor-information pages.

If your main concern is distance from your own starting point, enter the documented coordinates into a mapping service and compare that result with the straight-line figures in the table above. That gives you a clean separation between the venue's fixed position and your own variable starting point.

FAQ

Is this article about Hollywood Casino Bay St Louis in Mississippi?

No. The keyword says Bay St Louis, but the documented venue tied to this page is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because no Mississippi venue record is present here, the article can only describe the Grantville property's fixed location and the straight-line distances published for that property.

Can I use the table to estimate my driving route?

Only in a very limited sense. The table is useful for geographic orientation, but every figure is great-circle rather than road mileage. Real routes are longer because they must follow available roads and crossings, so you should use a live mapping service for the current road distance from your own starting point.

What is the clearest fixed identifier for this venue?

The clearest fixed identifiers in the published references are its city and state, Grantville, Pennsylvania, plus the coordinates 40.39666667 and -76.65861111. Those facts are more stable for location purposes than branding details, because names, operators, and facility counts can change over time while the physical site remains in the same place.

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