Hollywood Casino Morgantown: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

For this venue, the documented straight-line distance is 92.0 miles to Parx, 104.8 miles to Washington DC, 140.9 miles to NYC, 141.0 miles to Manhattan, 69.9 miles to Wind Creek, and the full table below lists every other published straight-line pairing for the same fixed site. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

The keyword asks about Hollywood Casino Morgantown, but the publicly published reference sources available for this article identify a different fixed venue: Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania. So the useful part this article can provide is the documented position of that Grantville venue, its coordinates, and the published straight-line distances from that exact point to named reference places already on record.

The fixed site this article can identify

The documented venue is Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, located in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Its published coordinates are 40.39666667 latitude and -76.65861111 longitude, which fixes the site in Pennsylvania regardless of where a reader starts from.

Those coordinates matter because the venue’s position is fixed, while a reader’s position is not. If you are comparing this site with your own starting point, the safe way to use this article is to treat the table below as a set of reference anchors and then measure from your own location separately with a map tool that reports your chosen route.

Documented straight-line distances from the venue

Every figure in the following table is a great-circle measurement from the Grantville venue to a named reference point. Great-circle means straight-line, not road distance, and no route, detour, or border crossing has been added to these figures.

How to read these figures correctly

A straight-line number is the shortest path over the earth’s surface between two coordinate points. It is useful for orientation and comparison, but it does not tell you what you will cover on an actual road trip.

Road distance becomes longer because real travel has to follow the road network rather than crossing directly over terrain. Rivers, mountains, developed areas, limited crossings, state-line routing choices, and the way local streets connect to larger roads all add deviation between a map line and a drivable route.

That difference can be small for some pairs and much larger for others. Water crossings, metro street layouts, and any need to bend around obstacles can widen the gap, which is why this article keeps the measurements labelled as great-circle and does not convert them into driving miles.

Where the venue sits within Pennsylvania

The venue is in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Its documented coordinates place it north of Washington DC and south of Toronto, and they place it east of Chicago and west of NYC, Manhattan, and Rehoboth Beach Delaware when compared with the published reference pairs listed above.

Those relative directions are the safe, fixed part of a location description. They help you place the venue within the broader eastern United States without pretending that a straight line tells you which road you would use or how long an arrival would take.

Publicly published reference sources also describe the property as having opened on August 30, 1972. Facility figures in those same references describe a documented point in time rather than a live inventory, so they are best read as background context rather than an arrival planner.

Venue scale and identity at a documented point in time

For readers trying to make sure they have the right property, the documented venue record includes 2,480 slot machines and the start of table games on July 13, 2010. Ownership and operation are listed in publicly published reference sources as owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.

Those details help distinguish this fixed Grantville site from any other Hollywood-branded property that a reader may have in mind. They do not answer live questions such as current hours, parking arrangements, or today’s room availability, which need to be checked through the property’s own current information channels.

If your starting point is not in the table

This article cannot measure a straight-line distance unless that exact venue-to-place pair is already published in the reference list above. So if you wanted the distance from Morgantown, or from your own home, this page cannot safely invent or calculate it.

What it can do is anchor the venue at 40.39666667, -76.65861111 in Grantville, Pennsylvania and show many reference comparisons already on record. To measure from your own starting point, use a map service, enter your exact origin, and compare its route output with the venue’s fixed coordinates rather than relying on a name match alone.

What to confirm before you go

Before travelling, confirm the changeable details on the venue’s own official pages or through its guest-services contact channel. The items most likely to change are operating hours, room availability, dining availability, parking arrangements, entertainment schedules, and any temporary access restrictions.

It is also worth confirming that you are looking at the right Hollywood-branded property. The keyword mentions Morgantown, but the documented venue available for this article is the Grantville, Pennsylvania property, so verifying the city name on the official property page is the simplest way to avoid a location mix-up.

FAQ

Is this article about a casino in Morgantown?

Not in a documented venue-specific sense. The keyword says Morgantown, but the publicly published reference sources available here identify Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, with coordinates 40.39666667 and -76.65861111. So the article fixes that Grantville site and does not claim a separate Morgantown venue record.

Can I use the table to estimate my driving route?

No. Every mileage figure here is labelled great-circle, which means straight-line rather than road distance. Real routes are longer because roads curve, crossings are limited, and the transport network does not follow a direct line. For an actual trip, check a map service using your own starting point and the venue’s fixed location.

What is the nearest reference point in the published list?

Among the injected reference pairs shown here, Wind Creek is listed at 69.9 miles straight-line, and Parx is listed at 92.0 miles straight-line. That does not mean they are the nearest places by road, and it does not identify the nearest city overall. It only compares the named reference points that have published pairings for this venue.

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