Running Aces Casino & Racetrack in Columbus, Minnesota sits 21.5 miles from Minneapolis in straight-line distance. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.
What this article can do is fix the venue on the map and show the published great-circle distances to the reference points available here. What it cannot do is tell you a route, a road-mile figure, or how long any trip will take.
Where the venue is fixed
The documented venue is Running Aces Casino & Racetrack, in Columbus, Minnesota, at coordinates 45.24452, -93.03379. Those coordinates place the site in Minnesota and give you a fixed point that does not change with branding, ownership changes, or how a mapping app chooses a route on a given day.
Publicly published reference sources describe the property as a 5/8 mile racino in Columbus, Minnesota, and state that the park also has a card room. The same source sentence says the park opened in April 2008.
Documented straight-line distances
The table below lists every injected venue-to-reference pairing available for this property. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight line between two points on the earth rather than a road journey.
| 参照点 | 直线英里 | 测量类型 |
|---|---|---|
| sacramento | 1524.9 | great-circle |
| san antonio | 1132.7 | great-circle |
| toronto | 681.5 | great-circle |
| houston | 1077.6 | great-circle |
| ford field | 536.6 | great-circle |
| san antonio texas | 1132.7 | great-circle |
| washington dc | 928.6 | great-circle |
| nyc | 1008.7 | great-circle |
| modesto | 1530.5 | great-circle |
| new orleans | 1067.1 | great-circle |
| charleston reddit | 1107.1 | great-circle |
| san francisco | 1595.0 | great-circle |
| rehoboth beach delaware | 1023.5 | great-circle |
| lake george | 960.8 | great-circle |
| daytona beach | 1284.8 | great-circle |
| sacramento airport | 1526.0 | great-circle |
| houston texas | 1077.6 | great-circle |
| lax | 1550.7 | great-circle |
| manhattan | 1008.7 | great-circle |
| chicago | 356.6 | great-circle |
| charlotte | 942.6 | great-circle |
| bourbon street | 1314.0 | great-circle |
| san jose | 1584.4 | great-circle |
| topeka kansas | 450.1 | great-circle |
| syracuse | 849.4 | great-circle |
| arlington tx | 893.5 | great-circle |
| denton tx | 859.2 | great-circle |
| atlanta | 917.0 | great-circle |
| atlantic city | 1031.0 | great-circle |
| biloxi | 1048.7 | great-circle |
| boston | 1110.2 | great-circle |
| buffalo | 720.4 | great-circle |
| dallas | 884.5 | great-circle |
| denver | 717.0 | great-circle |
| detroit | 536.8 | great-circle |
| gulfport | 1047.7 | great-circle |
| henderson | 1309.0 | great-circle |
| kansas city | 431.8 | great-circle |
| lake charles | 1037.5 | great-circle |
| las vegas | 1310.6 | great-circle |
| laughlin | 1329.7 | great-circle |
| los angeles | 1539.0 | great-circle |
| miami | 1522.4 | great-circle |
| milwaukee | 294.1 | great-circle |
| minneapolis | 21.5 | great-circle |
| niagara falls | 705.8 | great-circle |
| oklahoma city | 715.3 | great-circle |
| orlando | 1318.4 | great-circle |
| palm springs | 1472.0 | great-circle |
| philadelphia | 977.0 | great-circle |
| phoenix | 1297.8 | great-circle |
| pittsburgh | 738.9 | great-circle |
| portland | 1430.7 | great-circle |
| reno | 1415.2 | great-circle |
| san diego | 1548.9 | great-circle |
| seattle | 1396.4 | great-circle |
| shreveport | 884.0 | great-circle |
| st louis | 479.8 | great-circle |
| tampa | 1328.6 | great-circle |
| temecula | 1512.8 | great-circle |
| tulsa | 647.7 | great-circle |
| tunica | 733.7 | great-circle |
How to read those miles correctly
A straight-line figure is useful for orientation because it is consistent. It tells you how far apart two points are geometrically, not how a road network connects them.
Actual road travel is longer for several reasons. Roads bend around water, terrain, and built-up areas; they do not run as a perfect line from one coordinate to another. Cross-state travel can also force detours through the available road network, and local street layouts near the destination add more distance again.
That is why a straight-line figure should be read as a map relationship, not as a trip plan. If you need the current route from your own starting point, use the venue coordinates with a live mapping service and compare the result against the fixed great-circle figures here.
How the venue sits within Minnesota
The property is documented in Columbus, Minnesota. From the coordinates alone, the venue sits north of Minneapolis because its latitude is higher than the reference city's map position implied by the published pair, and it sits in the eastern half of Minnesota because the longitude is well east of the state's western edge.
For a reader trying to place it regionally, the most immediately useful published reference here is Minneapolis at 21.5 straight-line miles. Other upper-Midwest reference points in the table, such as Milwaukee at 294.1 straight-line miles and Chicago at 356.6 straight-line miles, help show the venue's position relative to nearby major urban centers without pretending to be road mileage.
What this article can and cannot measure
If your question is simply where Running Aces Casino is, the fixed answer is Columbus, Minnesota, at 45.24452, -93.03379. If your question is how far it is from one of the listed reference points, this article can give the published straight-line number exactly as shown in the table.
If your starting point is not one of those listed places, this article cannot measure that pair. It also cannot tell you a driving route, a road-mile figure, or a journey duration, because those are not the same thing as the documented great-circle distances published here.
The same limit applies to any "from me" or "near me" version of the question. The venue's position is fixed; your position is not. To measure from where you are, enter the venue coordinates into your own map tool and compare your result with the straight-line reference table above.
Ownership and facility context
Publicly published reference sources identify the owner as Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community to their. Ownership wording can change over time in public records and reporting, so treat it as a documented snapshot rather than a permanent label.
The same published source sentence describes the property as a 5/8 mile racino and says the park also has a card room. For a reader focused on place rather than play, that matters because it tells you the venue is not just a single gaming floor label on a map; it is a racetrack-and-card-room site in Columbus.
What to confirm before you go
Before setting out, confirm the live details that are not fixed in a distance article. That includes the venue's current access arrangements, parking setup, event-day restrictions, and any changes to on-site amenities.
The authoritative place to check is the property's own official contact and visitor information channels, including its map listing and its venue information pages. If you are comparing a straight-line figure here with a route in a navigation app, remember that the app is solving a road problem while this article is describing a geometry problem.
FAQ
How far is Running Aces Casino from Minneapolis?
The published figure available here is 21.5 miles in straight-line distance from Minneapolis. That is a great-circle measurement only. It should not be read as road mileage, and this article does not provide a driving distance or a travel time.
Can this article tell me how far Running Aces Casino is from my location?
Not unless your starting point matches one of the published reference pairs in the table. The venue's location is fixed at 45.24452, -93.03379 in Columbus, Minnesota, but your location is not fixed here. Use those coordinates in your own map tool to measure from where you are.
Does the table show the shortest way to get there?
No. The table shows great-circle distances, which are straight-line measurements between coordinates. Real routes follow roads, local access points, and whatever detours the network requires around terrain, water, and other obstacles, so the road journey is always longer than the straight-line figure.
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