Top 10 "can't find" drag strips

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by Ellis V Buth

Yep, it is in Freedom, IN. I believe it is closed down now, but I went and raced there a couple times and it was NOT easy to find...had to go way back into the woods, over a 1 lane bridge, and then coming in the gate wait for the car in the burnout box to finish the burnout so you don't hit the rear quarter of the car on the way in. Grass strip all the way down the middle, and not a ton of shutdown. I've heard stories of cows from the nearby pasture getting out and in the shutdown area. It was a fun track, definitely a throwback type of track! As far as the gates, when I raced there it didn't have that anymore I don't think...but I only raced there in the last 5 years so I don't know what it was like before that.

The day I was there Jeremy Mitchell in his Grand Prix got hit while he was in the waterbox. Guy leaving didn't want to wait and clipped him with his truck and trailer.

Only one turnout for the return road. If you missed it you did a 3 point turnaround and drove back to it.

After my first pass I was driving up to the ticket booth and saw it had armco all around it. Then I noticed the wall along the track stopped at 500 feet.

I see they have last years schedule up on their website yet, so I am assuming it is now closed?

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by HR9121

Piedmont Dragwa y is a good one too.

Piedmont's not hard to reach from I-40/85. From the east take Exit 138 to NC-61 south, then right on Holt's Store Rd. From the west take Exit 132 to Mt Hope Church Rd south, then left on Holt's Store Rd.

Now, Wayne County Dragstrip in Nahunta/Pikeville NC was hard. I've been there and it still takes me forever to find it again on a map.

BTW, at Sumerduck the sand trap is at a 45 degree angle to the strip; you have to follow a long left-hand curve after the finish in order to reach it.

[Dan Bennett]

Carolina Dragway mainly because I couldn't find it in clear, broad daylight. It's off a main highway but I circled three or four times before I saw the sign. At that time, it was the same size and height as a realtor's for sale sign. It was on a regular county road, but was next to a gas station and looked like a service road. It's a great track, though and I wouldn't have any trouble finding it once I'd been there.

Also Englishtown and Maple Grove. Somehow I have a lot of trouble with roads in the eastern US. Having two lane roads marked like 115, 117, 152, 151, and 511 all intersecting within a few miles made me think I was a bit dislexic.

Maple Grove was less of a problem the more I went there. But it's the only track that I heard more than one Pro transporter driver say they had never taken the same way in or out - without trying to do so.

I am not blessed with a sense of direction so GPS systems changed my life.

[Ron Ortiz]

This may not qualify as a "can't find" drag strip, but I believe that it is note worthy to Gainesville Raceway.

We used to stay at a campground north of Waldo on US301, had a little restaurant there with railroad tracks and a train on the ceiling. Across the street was a place called Bobby's Hideaway.

If you headed south on US301 to get to SR24 (Waldo Road) which leads to the track (via CR225) you would have to take a right on SR24. Of course you would have to leave early in the morning (dark thirty) to get to the track in time for Q1 at 8:00 AM. After a full day at the track and some frosty beverages we would head back to the campground in the dark again. Well, when you come to the intersection of US301 and SR24 you have to take a right to go north, not a left, but a right. It can be very confusing going the wrong way when you know how you got there. We renamed the area as The Twilight Zone. Couldn't figure it out until we saw it in the daylight. See, there is more to Waldo than speeding tickets.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA I'm so confused.

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Piedmont's not hard to reach from I-40/85. From the east take Exit 138 to NC-61 south, then right on Holt's Store Rd. From the west take Exit 132 to Mt Hope Church Rd south, then left on Holt's Store Rd.

Now, Wayne County Dragstrip in Nahunta/Pikeville NC was hard. I've been there and it still takes me forever to find it again on a map.

BTW, at Sumerduck the sand trap is at a 45 degree angle to the strip; you have to follow a long left-hand curve after the finish in order to reach it.

Mike the first time I ever went there the GPS actually carried me to Julian at 10 o'clock at night with motor home and trailer in tow. Not very many places to turn around there so I guess I never forgot that one, now I could get there with my eyes closed but that first trip was a real treat.