Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course: fixed location and straight-line distance reference

From Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, the documented straight-line distances run from 69.9 miles to Wind Creek up to 8477.7 miles to Okada, and every figure in this article is a straight-line measurement. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The keyword asks about a different Hollywood-branded venue in Kansas City, but the publicly published reference sources available for this article identify a venue in Grantville, Pennsylvania instead. So the useful, defensible answer here is the fixed location of that documented venue, its coordinates, and the full set of reference-point pairs that can be stated without guessing.

The venue position that can be documented

The documented venue is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Its published coordinates are 40.39666667 latitude and -76.65861111 longitude.

Those coordinates fix the property in Pennsylvania, and they do not change with a reader's starting point. If you arrived looking for a “near me” style answer, the practical way to use this page is to treat the venue as the fixed point and compare your own location against the reference places listed below.

All documented straight-line pairs

The table below reproduces every injected venue-to-reference distance pair that can be stated for this property. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road route.

Why straight-line distance and real travel differ

A straight-line figure connects two coordinates across the earth's surface by the shortest geometric path. That makes it useful for orientation, but it is not the same thing as a route a person can follow on the ground.

Road travel becomes longer because real networks must bend around terrain, water, built-up areas, and the shape of available crossings. State lines can also matter indirectly, not because the line itself adds distance, but because the usable road network may force detours that the straight-line measurement ignores.

This is why the caveat matters: great-circle distance is a fixed geographic reference, while road mileage depends on the route that mapping software chooses on the day you check it. For trip planning, use the straight-line figures here only to understand relative position, then confirm the actual route on a current map.

How to read the venue's regional position

The venue's documented city and state are Grantville, Pennsylvania. The coordinates place it in Pennsylvania, and the published location source also places it east of Harrisburg, which helps situate it within the state without turning this article into turn-by-turn directions.

Using the injected reference points as orientation only, the straight-line figures show that this Pennsylvania venue sits much closer to places such as Wind Creek, Parx, Washington DC, Harrington, Showboat, Ocean Casino, Manhattan, and NYC than it does to western reference points such as Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Graton, Cache Creek, and Thunder Valley. That is a geographic pattern, not a route guide.

The same logic helps with cross-border orientation. Toronto, Fallsview, Casino Niagara, and Casino Rama are all documented as shorter straight-line pairs than many southern or western references, which tells you the venue sits in the northeastern part of the broader U.S. map rather than near the Gulf Coast, Texas, or the West Coast.

If your starting point is not in the table

The keyword mentions Kansas City, but there is no documented straight-line pair here for Kansas City and no documented venue row for Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway. This article therefore cannot measure that specific segment.

What it can do is anchor the documented property at 40.39666667, -76.65861111 and give you a comparison set. If your own start point is different, place your location on a map, place the venue coordinates on the same map, and let the mapping tool calculate the current route and road mileage from your exact origin.

Venue scale and dated facility figures

Publicly published reference sources describe this property 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, and another published figure in the venue row lists 2010 under table games, which should be read cautiously because facility figures can be revised or represented differently over time.

The opening date documented for the track is August 30, 1972. Ownership is described in the published source as owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment, a reminder that property ownership and operating arrangements can change over time and should be rechecked on the venue's own current information pages if that distinction matters to your trip.

What to confirm before you go

Before spending money on travel, confirm the live items that a fixed-location article does not publish. That includes the current route from your origin, parking arrangements, venue access points, lodging availability, event schedules, and any on-site amenity details that may have changed since the published reference figures were recorded.

The authoritative place to verify those items is the venue's own current contact and visitor information channels, together with a current mapping service for route calculation. If you are comparing this Grantville property with a different Hollywood-branded venue, confirm the city and state first, because similar branding is an easy way to end up measuring the wrong destination.

FAQ

Is this article about the Kansas City Hollywood Casino?

No. The documented venue available for this article is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because no venue row or straight-line pair for the Kansas City property is available here, this page sticks to the Pennsylvania venue and does not guess details for a different property.

Can I use these mile figures as driving distance?

No. Every mileage figure here is labelled as straight-line or great-circle distance. Road mileage is always longer, sometimes substantially longer, because real routes must follow the available road network and work around terrain, water crossings, and other constraints that a coordinate-to-coordinate line does not reflect.

How should I measure from my own location?

Use the venue's fixed coordinates, 40.39666667 and -76.65861111, as the destination point in a current map. Then enter your own starting point and let the mapping tool calculate the route it can support today. That gives you a current road answer, while this article provides the stable geographic reference point.

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