Foxwoods Is Fixed; Your Starting Point Is Not

Foxwoods Resort Casino sits at 41.47388889 north latitude and 71.95805556 west longitude in Ledyard, Connecticut, and the straight-line distance from New York City is 118.9 miles. Straight-line means great-circle distance as the crow flies. Road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage, travel time, or route guidance for any pair.

The venue's position is fixed and documented. Your starting point is not. If a question asks about distance from "me" or "my location," no single reference point exists, so the honest approach is to describe where Foxwoods sits, show documented straight-line distances to a range of reference cities, and explain how a reader measures from their own origin.

Where the venue sits

Foxwoods Resort Casino is located in Ledyard, Connecticut. The venue's owner is the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation. The resort opened in 1992 and includes six casinos, with documented facility figures of 5,500 slot machines, 2,228 hotel rooms, and 53 table games at a documented point in time; figures like room counts, machine counts, and floor area are revised as properties are rebuilt and expanded, so treat them as an as-of snapshot from publicly published reference sources.

Geographically, Ledyard sits in the southeastern portion of Connecticut, east of the Connecticut River and north of the Long Island Sound coastline. The venue's coordinates place it northeast of New York City, southwest of Boston, and west of Providence, Rhode Island. These directional relationships come only from the coordinate pair and the documented city and state; no road route is implied by them.

Documented straight-line distances

The table below lists every straight-line distance pair supplied for this venue. Each value is a great-circle measurement between documented coordinates, not a road distance. A straight-line figure is shorter than any drivable route and should never be used to estimate travel time.

Why straight-line and road distance diverge

A great-circle distance is the shortest arc across the earth's surface between two coordinate pairs. A road route cannot follow that arc. It follows a network of highways and local roads, and in this region that network bends around several physical and political features.

Eastern Connecticut sits between Long Island Sound to the south and a series of river valleys and upland ridges running north-south. Any route toward Ledyard from the west or south must cross water or work around it, and any route from the north or east follows corridors shaped by the Connecticut River and the Rhode Island border. A straight line ignores all of that; a car cannot.

State boundaries add another layer. A driver approaching from New York, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island crosses at least one state line, and the road system on each side was built on different historical grids. The result is that two reference cities with similar straight-line figures can have very different actual road distances, and no straight-line number should be read as a proxy for either road distance or travel time.

Reading the venue's regional position

From the coordinate pair alone, Foxwoods sits in the southeastern quadrant of Connecticut, closer to the Rhode Island border than to the New York border. Boston lies northeast at 76.8 straight-line miles; New York City lies southwest at 118.9 straight-line miles; Providence is not among the documented pairs, so no figure for that pair can be stated here.

The venue is not in a major city. Ledyard is a small town, and the resort's documented scale - 9,000,000 square feet of resort area across six casinos - makes the property a destination in itself rather than an urban amenity. A reader planning a visit should treat the venue as a fixed point and measure from their own origin, not from whichever reference city happens to be nearest in the table.

How to measure from your own starting point

Because the venue's coordinates are fixed, a reader can compute a straight-line distance from any origin using the same great-circle formula that produced the table above. The venue's coordinates are 41.47388889 north and 71.95805556 west. Any mapping tool that accepts coordinate pairs will return a great-circle figure for a chosen origin.

For road distance, the authoritative answer comes from a routing tool that uses current road data and the reader's actual departure point. This article does not publish road mileage, driving time, or route guidance, and no highway number, exit, or turn-by-turn instruction is supplied here. The reader should check the route on the day of travel, because construction and traffic change what the road network will deliver.

What to confirm before you go

Several items change frequently and are not published in this article. The venue's own booking page and guest services line carry the current answer for each.

• Room availability and room categories across the two documented hotel towers
• Whether the slot floor count of 5,500 and table game count of 53 still match the current floor, since properties are reconfigured over time
• Current operating hours and any event schedule at the property
• Whether video bingo is offered on the floor at all, and under what session format
• Road conditions and construction on the reader's actual route

The documented opening year is 1992, and ownership is the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation. Ownership and branding of casino properties change through sales and rebrands, so a reader should verify current operating details through the property's own channels before travelling.

FAQ

Does this article explain how video bingo works at Foxwoods?

No. This article covers the venue's fixed geographic position and documented straight-line distances only. It does not describe video bingo mechanics, session formats, pricing, or availability at Foxwoods or anywhere else. The property's own guest services or floor staff are the correct channel for that question, and nothing in this article should be read as confirming that video bingo is offered at the venue.

How far is Foxwoods from me?

That cannot be answered without knowing your starting point. The venue's coordinates are fixed at 41.47388889 north and 71.95805556 west. You can compute a straight-line distance from your own origin using any mapping tool that accepts coordinate pairs. For road distance, use a routing tool with your actual departure address; road distance is always longer than straight-line distance.

Why are some city pairs missing from the distance table?

The table contains only the straight-line pairs that are documented for this venue. If a city you care about is not listed, no figure for that pair can be stated here. You can still measure it yourself from the venue's coordinates, but this article will not invent a number for a pair it does not have.

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