The fixed position of the venue
For this venue, the stable fact is its position rather than any route someone might take on a particular day. Publicly published reference sources place South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Enterprise, Nevada, at latitude 36.011426 and longitude -115.1753.
That gives you a fixed point for map comparison even if you are reading from somewhere else. The venue sits in Nevada, and the coordinate pair places it north of the equator and west of the prime meridian.
Documented venue facts tied to that location
Publicly published reference sources describe a documented point in time rather than a live operating snapshot. As published, the property opened on December 22, 2005 and is owned by Michael Gaughan.
The same reference set attributes 2,400 slot machines, 60 table games, and 2,163 hotel rooms to the property. Those figures can change when a venue is rebuilt, reconfigured, or rebranded, so they should be read as documented facility figures rather than a promise about today.
One location note in the published sources is easy to misread because it refers to a facility within the broader complex rather than the whole resort footprint. The source sentence says a facility used for bowling events is on the second floor of the Priefert Pavilion and separate from the resort's original bowling alley.
Straight-line distances in the published matrix
The distance figures below are great-circle measurements from the venue's fixed coordinates to named reference points. They are useful for orientation and comparison, but they are not road miles.
| 参照点 | 直线英里 | 测量类型 |
|---|---|---|
| sacramento | 390.0 | great-circle |
| san antonio | 1069.2 | great-circle |
| toronto | 1954.5 | great-circle |
| houston | 1225.2 | great-circle |
| ford field | 1764.2 | great-circle |
| san antonio texas | 1069.2 | great-circle |
| washington dc | 2087.2 | great-circle |
| nyc | 2233.3 | great-circle |
| modesto | 341.3 | great-circle |
| new orleans | 1508.2 | great-circle |
| san francisco | 418.2 | great-circle |
| sacramento airport | 398.1 | great-circle |
| houston texas | 1225.2 | great-circle |
| lax | 232.2 | great-circle |
| manhattan | 2233.3 | great-circle |
| chicago | 1527.5 | great-circle |
| charlotte | 1919.1 | great-circle |
| bourbon street | 7.2 | great-circle |
| san jose | 383.1 | great-circle |
| topeka kansas | 1085.5 | great-circle |
| syracuse | 2115.9 | great-circle |
| arlington tx | 1053.1 | great-circle |
| denton tx | 1042.6 | great-circle |
| winstar | 1032.9 | great-circle |
| turning stone | 2143.9 | great-circle |
| graton | 445.9 | great-circle |
| greektown | 1764.4 | great-circle |
| motor city | 1763.0 | great-circle |
| foxwoods | 2334.8 | great-circle |
| mystic lake | 1285.9 | great-circle |
| pechanga | 207.8 | great-circle |
| morongo | 171.1 | great-circle |
| monte carlo | 6.4 | great-circle |
| harrah | 7.5 | great-circle |
| hollywood casino | 2096.3 | great-circle |
| showboat | 2221.7 | great-circle |
| horseshoe | 11.2 | great-circle |
| cherokee | 1779.7 | great-circle |
| choctaw | 1069.9 | great-circle |
| casino rama | 1961.1 | great-circle |
| caesars | 7.3 | great-circle |
| san manuel | 173.3 | great-circle |
| soaring eagle | 1688.9 | great-circle |
| barona | 233.2 | great-circle |
| commerce casino | 218.1 | great-circle |
| parx | 2187.6 | great-circle |
| soboba | 182.1 | great-circle |
| firekeepers | 1660.6 | great-circle |
| seven feathers | 644.5 | great-circle |
| yaamava | 173.3 | great-circle |
| scioto downs | 1764.0 | great-circle |
| meadows | 1910.7 | great-circle |
| bristol casino | 1826.4 | great-circle |
| cache creek | 426.1 | great-circle |
| harrington | 2164.0 | great-circle |
| prairie band | 1084.4 | great-circle |
| saratoga | 2235.6 | great-circle |
| silverton | 2.2 | great-circle |
| kansas star | 991.8 | great-circle |
| ocean casino | 2221.9 | great-circle |
| snoqualmie | 865.3 | great-circle |
| monarch | 589.2 | great-circle |
| casino niagara | 1968.3 | great-circle |
| rivers casino | 1919.5 | great-circle |
| wind creek | 2163.2 | great-circle |
| okada | 7378.3 | great-circle |
| potawatomi | 1522.8 | great-circle |
| boomtown | 1512.6 | great-circle |
| thunder valley | 389.2 | great-circle |
| fallsview | 1967.8 | great-circle |
| motorcity | 1763.0 | great-circle |
| belterra | 1663.1 | great-circle |
Why the road trip is longer than the straight line
A straight line connects two coordinates through geometry. A real trip has to follow a transport network, work around terrain, and deal with the fact that roads and streets rarely trace the direct geometric path between origin and destination.
Water bodies can force long detours, mountain ranges can compress route options, and urban street patterns can add local circling at the start and end of a trip. Cross-state travel can also introduce routing choices that bend around major barriers rather than through them.
That is why the published caveat matters: great-circle distances are not driving miles. The distance matrix is best used to understand relative placement, not to estimate how far your odometer will show.
How to read the venue's regional position
The venue is in Enterprise, Nevada. Because its documented coordinates are 36.011426, -115.1753, the property lies in the Northern Hemisphere and in the western half of the globe.
Within the article's limits, the most defensible regional statement is simply that this is a fixed point in Nevada that can be compared against many published reference places. The matrix shows very short straight-line separations to some Las Vegas-area reference names such as Silverton at 2.2 and larger separations to out-of-state cities and casinos, but those figures still do not tell you the road path.
How this helps if your starting point is somewhere else
Your location is variable, but the venue's location is not. If your own starting point is not one of the published reference pairs in the table, this article cannot measure that specific distance for you.
The practical method is simple: use the venue's documented coordinates, 36.011426 and -115.1753, in any standard mapping tool and compare that fixed point with your own position. If you are trying to sanity-check scale before plotting a route, the table above gives you a wide spread of already published great-circle comparisons.
What to confirm before you go
Before travelling, confirm the live details that a fixed geography article cannot safely publish. That includes current opening status, hotel availability, venue access rules, parking arrangements, event schedules, and any on-property amenity details that can change without notice.
The authoritative place to verify those items is the property's own official contact and booking channels, plus any map service you use for current routing. If you are matching this venue against another destination, confirm the exact destination name as well, because branding and ownership of casino properties can change over time.
FAQ
Is South Point Casino & Spa in Las Vegas or Enterprise?
Publicly published reference sources place South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Enterprise, Nevada. For a location article, that city-and-state identification is the fixed point to rely on, together with the documented coordinates 36.011426 and -115.1753.
Can I use the table to work out my driving mileage?
No. Every figure in the table is a great-circle measurement, which means straight-line distance between coordinates. Road mileage is always longer, and the exact difference depends on the route network, terrain, water barriers, and the specific place you start from.
What if I want the distance from my own location?
This article cannot guess where you are, and it does not calculate unpublished pairs. The reliable approach is to plug the venue's documented coordinates into your map service, compare them with your own starting point, and use the published table only as a fixed-reference orientation aid.
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