Hollywood Casino Grantville PA: fixed location and straight-line distance reference

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

If you are trying to place this venue on a map, the fixed point is clearer than any route description: the documented coordinates are 40.39666667, -76.65861111, in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Publicly published reference sources also describe the property as Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, with an opening date of August 30, 1972; figures like machine counts, table counts, floor mix, and ownership can change over time as properties are rebuilt, expanded, sold, or rebranded.

Where the venue is fixed

The venue is in Grantville, in the state of Pennsylvania. Its documented coordinates place it in the Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere, which is enough to anchor it precisely without inventing any road guidance.

For readers using mapping tools, that fixed coordinate matters more than any verbal description. Your own starting point may change, but the venue's position does not, so the practical way to compare places is to hold the casino's coordinates constant and then measure from your own location in a map app or GPS service.

Documented venue facts tied to place

Publicly published reference sources identify the property as Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, also referred to here by the shorter alias Hollywood Casino. The documented opening date is August 30, 1972.

The same reference set lists 2,480 slot machines and notes that table games began operation on July 13, 2010. The owner line in those references states that it is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.

Straight-line distance table

The table below lists every documented reference pair available for this venue. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road route, so it should be read as map geometry rather than a usable driving mileage.

Why straight-line distance and road distance differ

A straight-line figure is the shortest path over the earth's surface between two coordinate points. It is useful for orientation and comparison, but it is not the same thing as the route a driver, bus, or other ground traveler must follow.

Road mileage becomes longer because real routes have to work around terrain, water, private land, one-way systems, and the shape of the road network itself. State borders can also matter in practice, not because a straight line changes, but because available crossings and connected roads may force detours that a map line does not show.

That is why this article keeps the two ideas separate. The great-circle figure tells you how far apart two points sit geometrically; the route you can physically travel depends on infrastructure, access, and the exact origin you choose.

How to read the venue's regional position

The venue's documented location is Grantville, Pennsylvania. Without inventing any unsupplied route details, the coordinates show a fixed point in Pennsylvania that can be compared with the listed reference places only through the documented straight-line pairs above.

Some of those pairs are relatively short in straight-line terms, such as Wind Creek at 69.9 miles, Parx at 92.0 miles, Washington DC at 104.8 miles, and Harrington at 117.5 miles. Others place the venue much farther from western, southern, or international reference points, such as Chicago at 579.5 miles, Houston at 1283.8 miles, San Antonio at 1444.9 miles, and Okada at 8477.7 miles, all as straight-line measurements.

Those contrasts are useful when you are deciding whether two places are in the same broad travel region or clearly not. They are not enough to tell you how long a trip will take, which route will be used, or what the practical transport options are on a given day.

What to confirm before you go

Before setting out, confirm the items that change and that this article does not publish: the route your mapping service gives you, current road mileage, current traffic conditions, parking arrangements, and any venue access details that may affect arrival. The authoritative current answer for those items is the venue's own visitor information channels and your chosen mapping service.

If you need to compare this venue with your own starting point, enter the documented coordinates 40.39666667, -76.65861111 into a map tool and measure from your location. That is the reliable way to replace a general straight-line reference with a route built from your actual origin.

It is also worth confirming current venue details that can change over time, such as facility counts, branding, and operator identity. Publicly published reference sources can lag behind expansions, renovations, or ownership changes, so the venue's own current information pages are the place to verify those live details before you spend money travelling.

FAQ

Can this article tell me how far Hollywood Casino Grantville PA is from my location?

Not directly. Your location is not fixed in this article, so the only safe approach is to use the venue's documented coordinates, 40.39666667 and -76.65861111, in a mapping tool and measure from your own starting point. The table here gives only documented straight-line pairs to listed reference places, and road distance will be longer.

Does the straight-line table show driving miles?

No. Every figure in the table is labeled great-circle, which means straight-line distance between coordinates. That makes the numbers useful for geographic comparison, but not for route planning. For a real trip, check a current mapping service for road mileage, route shape, and any conditions that could change the path you would actually travel.

What fixed facts about the venue are documented here?

The documented fixed facts used here are its location in Grantville, Pennsylvania, its coordinates, its opening date of August 30, 1972, and published facility notes including 2,480 slot machines and table games beginning operation on July 13, 2010. Ownership is also described in publicly published reference sources, but ownership and branding can change over time.

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