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

From the documented venue in this article, the straight-line distance to Sacramento is 2368.3 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 mentions "hollywood casino st louis mo," but the publicly published reference sources available for this article point to Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, not to a Missouri property. So the useful answer here is the fixed position that is documented, plus the straight-line distances that are documented from that fixed point to named reference places.

The fixed site this article can document

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

That means the venue's position is fixed in Pennsylvania regardless of what city name appears in a search query. If you were trying to measure from St. Louis, Missouri, this article cannot state that distance because that pair is not one of the documented straight-line pairs available here.

Documented straight-line distances from the venue

The table below lists every documented pair available for this venue. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight-line measurement over the earth's surface rather than a road route.

Why straight-line distance and real travel differ

A straight-line figure is useful because it gives one consistent geometric measurement from one fixed point to another. It does not tell you what a road network does between those points, and it does not tell you how a trip unfolds on the ground.

Road distance is longer because roads bend around terrain, water, property boundaries, and built-up areas. A route may also detour to use bridges, cross at available state-line connections, or follow the shape of a local street network rather than the shortest possible line.

That is why a great-circle figure should be read as a map relationship, not as a driving plan. For this venue, the published caveat is explicit: great-circle distances are not driving miles, and driving is always longer.

Where Grantville sits in regional terms

The documented city and state are Grantville, Pennsylvania. The coordinates place the venue in the Northern Hemisphere and in the western half of the global longitude system, which is enough to anchor it as a fixed point in Pennsylvania for comparison against the documented reference places.

The source material also describes the property as being in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because this article is limited to documented facts, it does not add unsourced road directions, route numbers, or station-by-station instructions.

What the venue record says about the property

Publicly published reference sources identify the site as Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. The same sources describe an opening date of August 30, 1972, and list ownership as Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.

Facility figures in those sources are time-stamped rather than live operational counts. The documented figures available here are 2,480 slot machines and 2010 table games, but the table-games figure comes from a source sentence stating that table games began operation on July 13, 2010, so it should be read as a source-linked historical field rather than as a current floor inventory.

That distinction matters when reading venue summaries. Location coordinates tend to stay stable, while floor counts, branding, and operating structures can change as properties are rebuilt, expanded, sold, or rebranded.

If your search was for St. Louis

The phrase "st louis mo" appears in the keyword, but this article cannot turn that into a measured venue-to-St. Louis distance because no such pair is documented in the available straight-line matrix. The safe, useful answer is therefore to state the documented venue location in Grantville, Pennsylvania and to show the reference pairs that are available.

If you need the distance from your own starting point, use the venue coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111 in a mapping tool and compare that fixed point to your chosen origin. That lets you produce a route from your exact location without guessing from the keyword alone.

What to confirm before you go

Before setting out, confirm the changeable items on the venue's own official channels. The current answers for hours, parking arrangements, hotel availability, event schedules, and any on-site amenity access belong on the property's official pages or through its guest-services contact channel, not in a static distance article.

If you are comparing this site with another property, confirm that the name, branding, and operator are still the same as the published reference sources used here. Casino properties can change hands, and a search query that uses a familiar brand name does not always point to the same physical place.

Also confirm the kind of distance you need. If your decision depends on road mileage, tolls, or a specific route, a straight-line table is only a starting map reference and not the final planning tool.

FAQ

Is this article about a Missouri property?

No. The documented venue available for this article is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Because the keyword includes St. Louis, Missouri, there is a mismatch between the search phrase and the venue record that can be documented here.

Can I use the mileage table as driving distance?

No. Every figure in the table is a great-circle, straight-line measurement. Road mileage is always longer, and this article does not publish driving miles or trip times. For actual route planning, use the venue coordinates in a mapping service and let that service calculate from your chosen starting point.

What is the most reliable fixed fact in this article?

The strongest fixed fact is the venue's location in Grantville, Pennsylvania, at coordinates 40.39666667 and -76.65861111. Distance pairs in the table are also documented, but they are only straight-line comparisons to named reference points, not instructions for how to reach the property.

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