South Point's Fixed Location and the Distances That Define It

The straight-line distance from South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa to downtown Las Vegas is 11.1 miles as the crow flies. Road distance is always longer than that figure, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel times for any route.

What this article can give you is the venue's fixed geographic position and the straight-line distances from that position to a set of reference points. What it cannot give you is a route, a drive time, or a distance from wherever you happen to be reading this, because your location is not a fixed coordinate.

The venue's fixed position

South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa sits at latitude 36.011426 and longitude -115.1753. Publicly published reference sources place the property in Enterprise, Nevada. Enterprise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas Valley, and the coordinate places the venue south of the city of Las Vegas proper and southwest of the Henderson reference point.

The venue opened on December 22, 2005. Michael Gaughan is the documented owner and operator. The property includes a 25-story hotel with 2,163 rooms, and the casino floor that opened with the resort contained 2,400 slot machines and 60 table games. Those facility figures describe a documented point in time and are revised as properties are rebuilt and expanded.

Straight-line distances to reference points

Every figure below is a great-circle measurement between documented coordinates. None of them is a road distance, and none of them implies a travel time. The table includes all reference pairs supplied for this venue.

Why road distance is always longer

A great-circle line cuts across terrain, water, and jurisdictional boundaries as if none of them existed. A road cannot do that. The road network follows mountain passes, river crossings, and the grid of existing highways, and every detour adds length to the trip.

In this part of Nevada, the difference between a straight line and a road route is shaped by the Spring Mountains to the west and the basin-and-range terrain that forces highways into specific corridors. A reference point that looks close on the table may require a much longer drive because no direct road exists between the two coordinates.

The venue sits in Enterprise, Nevada, south of the Las Vegas city reference point and southwest of Henderson. Those relative positions are supported by the coordinates alone. The straight-line figures to Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Diego place the property in the southwestern corner of the United States, but none of those figures tells you how long it takes to get there.

When the question is about your location

If your question is "how far is South Point from me," the answer depends on a coordinate this article does not have. The venue's position is fixed at 36.011426, -115.1753. Your position is not fixed, and no table can measure a distance to an unknown point.

What you can do is take the venue's coordinates into any mapping tool, enter your own starting point, and let the tool compute the road route and the driving distance. The straight-line table above gives you a sense of scale against major cities, but it does not replace a route calculation from your actual origin.

What to confirm before you go

Facility figures such as the 2,163 hotel rooms, 2,400 slot machines, and 60 table games come from publicly published reference sources tied to the venue's opening period. Properties change hands, expand, and reconfigure their floors, so treat those numbers as a documented point in time rather than a live inventory.

For anything that changes day to day, the authoritative channel is the venue's own published material: its room inventory and rates on its booking page, its bingo session schedule on its events page, and its current operating information through guest services. Confirm those directly before you travel, because this article does not publish hours, prices, or schedules.

FAQ

How far is South Point from the Las Vegas Strip?

The straight-line distance from South Point to the Las Vegas reference point is 11.1 miles as the crow flies. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel times. Use the venue's coordinates and your own route tool to get a road figure.

Is South Point in Las Vegas or a different city?

Publicly published reference sources place South Point in Enterprise, Nevada. Enterprise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas Valley, south of the city of Las Vegas proper. The venue's coordinates support that relative position, but the article makes no claim about municipal boundaries beyond the documented city and state.

Does the straight-line table tell me how long the drive takes?

No. Every figure in the table is a great-circle measurement between coordinates, not a road distance, and no travel time can be derived from it. Terrain, road routing, and traffic all change the real trip. Use a mapping tool with your own starting point for a drive-time estimate.

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