One of my personal issues with NASCAR has to do with the fact that to me it is quite redundant and repetitive, as these races last for hundreds upon hundreds of laps, endlessly going in the same circle for hours on end. Central Avenue, a plank road, was laid out in 1874 and connected what is now the Macombs Dam Bridge with the racetrack. (No one ever did it, thank God.). I am in Sidney 2-3 days a week f or work and dont remember seeing it.

NASCAR is known for its high speed of racing. The dirt has piled up, the paint has faded, the grasses and shrubs have grown tall around the structures, the fence is sagging and rusty, pavement cracked and roofs leaky.



Image from Library of Congress.



seemingly don't have lives, think the aerial photos of race track sites are It didn't have to end this way for I-70 Speedway outside Odessa, Missouri. Bill races 358's weekly at Ransomville now. Considered to be The third-oldest motor racing circuit on Earth according to Road & Track, this is another place where Formula One race cars can be seen.

I was recently told about 2 racetracks in South Jersey that have been abandoned for quite some time. I am about 90% sure that this track was being built in Donnelly's face to spite him and nothing more. While the above picture doesnt seem to indicate much, Mount Panorama is Well-known for its long straights and tight downhill section according to Road & Track.

Built by Woodhull regular Don Kio: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspmp;z=18&w=1. Let's just hope that they didn't forget to get everything out of the fridge and freezer.



This photo was taken at the end of the day, just after sunset. Untapped New York unearths New York Citys secrets and hidden gems. I know the track that's pictured, however I believe it is a private track builit for training horses. The rail spur was extended four miles across the N.Y. & Harlem River Railroad tracks, through Bronx Park, and down Pelham Bay Parkway to the Meadows, tide lands formed by the head waters of Westchester Creek and Westchester Bay. I'm not sure that Dominic and rival promoter Glenn Donnelly got along. I believe I once heard that he may have paid the lawyers fees for the "locals" that wanted it closed. I know someone who used to go to the races there way back then. Though its not as old as Brooklands, this circuit is a close second as it was built in the 1920s. Its elevated site gave an extensive view of the surrounding countryside.

Opening day crowd of 6,000.

This was a Friday night stop for Shangri-la, Chemung and Five Mile Point stock car regulars. The remains of the track are supposed to be somewhere here, but I sure as heck cant find it!!!!

1/2 mile dirt. No matter how many tracks there already are, or have just been deemed "too dated," or "not relevant", they will keep making and building newer and better ones, all in the name of making more money, drawing more fans, justifying higher ticket prices.

WebJerome Park Racetrack was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility from 1866 until 1894. Take a look. Nowadays, at this NASCAR speedway that's been completely forgotten, the fastest thing on the track is the growing vines that have come up over the wall and down onto the tarmac.

There is currently heavy logging and excavation happening within 100 feet of where this track sits.

Rising to popularity in the 80s and 90s, Japanese street car racing became big enough for car tuning companies to take notice.

The first track is located within eyesight of exit 41 eastbound on the NYS Thruway between Birdsey Road and Route 414, about 100 yards before the exit ramp starts.

The track is pretty much still there I think, but its used for go-karts today (called Ringwood Raceway).

Ran for 6 years in the '50s.

I am a motorhead and actually worked down at Atco Raceway for 6 years, but I have never heard of these two tracks.

Since then it has gone up for auction and is apparently being renovated. Then there's the parallel imagery with that.

Ran from '34 to '83. I remember it being built and it was open for a short time in the 1980s.

The Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad. I've not been able to determine if any auto racing events were held on horse racing track that was on the property. It was located in a part of Westchester County, New York that was annexed into the Bronx in 1874.

Sorry for the low-tech TerraServer images, but here are a few more. Lowville Fairgrounds* - Lowville, NY.

3. For any car enthusiast, they know this track like the back of their hand. Compared to the other abandoned race tracks covered in this article so far, this one is not particularly famous except that there was a considerable amount of effort done to save it. You can also add White's Beach,West Perth,Coxsackie,Altamont and Menands.
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DeWitt Clinton High School, opened in 1897 as the Boys High School in Greenwich Village, was renamed for New York governor DeWitt Clinton in 1900.

It was built in 1953 off of the Carlisle Pike and closed after the 2005 season. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalrsportsPark.jpg, http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halg/LaFayette.jpg. 1/2 mile dirt. One was in Mt Holly or near Mt Holly and was used in the 1950's the other was Jeromes outraged widow paid for expensive bronze Jerome Avenue street signs and hired workers to install them. Lots of Southern Tier stock car regulars raced here. After years of relying on the old USGS

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Riverhead Raceway is located in Riverhead, New York. Yet this is where The Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix is held Road & Track states.

By comparison, the WeatherTech Raceway is also located in California and Marked by 11 turns on the route Road & Track says.

Considered to be One of America's most iconic tracks, Road & Track says, its easy to see why as the image above looks like the kind of thing most people envision when they think of a typical car race.

Like most native New Yorkers, he feigns a grumpiness at first but is quickly willing to tell his story.

If North Ridge is off the Sweet Road Bob has a picture of it Moondog, do you know where the museum is?

With a history that dates back to the 1940s, this track is quite famous worldwide.



The first track is located within eyesight of exit 41 eastbound on the NYS Thruway between Birdsey Road and Route 414, about 100 yards before the exit ramp starts. Bay Area Modifieds bringing IMCA Racing back to Emerald Coast, Rivalry Renewed: Lanigan & Richards Set To Face Off In 2015 As Richards Returns To Full-Time World of Outlaws Competition, Track Promoters Get FREE Promotion with RacingIn.com's Track Directory and Race Dates Page, Interest in Grassroots Racing Grows 40% in 2014 With Great Opportunities Ahead in 2015, Fans of Fast Name Their Favorite Track of 2014. Fort Independence Playground, at the northwest corner of the reservoir, came under Parks Department jurisdiction in 1915. However, what began as an exclusive resort for the social elite, attracting the belles and social and financial powers of New York and the U.S., eventually degenerated into a money-making machine dominated by scandals and bookmakers that catered to the lower classes. Like Shuffletown, this was another rural track that was used for drag racing only its located in Kentucky as opposed to North Carolina. by KyleBrinkmannRacing in KyleBrinkmanRacing, a racer from Elkhorn, WI, BMARA RACERS HELP EACH OTHER WebJerome Park Racetrack was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility from 1866 until 1894.



If I remember correctly, Tantallo died of natural causes while still excavating the track.

The Bronx shifted from a land of Gilded Age estates, where the upper crust of American society would gather for leisure activities like horse racing and the racetrack was taken over to provide essential services for a growing city that had a need for clean water, outdoor space, and educational institutions. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalrthCollins3.jpg, http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Hal/NorthRidge.jpg, Olive Bridge aka Onteara* No further information, http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalidgeOnteara.jpg, Palmyra 1* - 1/4 mile dirt.

Kelley's Motorsports Park - Batavia, NY - 3/8 mile clay semi banked, egg shaped oval.

It was a spur beginning at the N.Y. & Harlem River Railroad just north of the present-day Mosholu Parkway bridge and ran to the racetrack station south of Burnside Avenue at the rear of the grandstand.

No longer exists.

May have been a single Sports Car event. More Recent View.

Since it has been abandoned, though, it's clear that time has not been good to this building, with pieces falling from the ceiling, glass broken out, and anything and everything else falling apart in collapse.

Dolores recounts the excitement of people who return to the Kensington neighborhood after many years and discover that Buzz-a-Rama is still open.

Jerome Park Racetrack was the

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Special events in the '50s. Knowing the area fairly well, the Moose Club sits on the right as you head east on 31, just after where 21 branches off to the north, correct? Its hard to imagine without seeing it in action, but slot cars can go up to 100 miles per hour. Track had a lot of potential.

I'll try to give him a call to see if he remembers exactly where. The Board of Aldermen relented, resulting in the officially named Jerome Avenue, at 5.6 miles, one of the longest streets in the Bronx. WebClay, New York.

1/2 mile dirt. Indeed, as tracks wear out and need maintenance, sometimes it's easier to build a new one, and forget about the old ones. Alas, that's no longer true for it, as it has been shut down for over 20 years now, where the infrastructure has rotted away in a sorrow filled silence.

Caledonia Fairgrounds* - Caledonia, NY. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalnRdSpeedway.jpg, Corning Memorial Stadium* - Corning, NY. AERIAL VIEWS OF

No longer exists.

The tracks are still there, but no racing on them.

The current ones that are there were put in when Ric Lucia took over.

This tarmac, while maintained and kept in tip-top shape, was able to allow race cars to drive across the surface, hurtling along at phenomenal speeds, round and round endlessly. Since the track was abandoned in the 70s, A partial demolition occurred in 2002 according to Urban Ghosts. The reservoir has massive elegantly crafted Roman-inspired walls and brick and stone WPA-era Art Deco gate house superstructures with stone voussoir (wedge-shaped) arches below. That could prove to be a pretty bad scenario.

Its a go-to place for all the age-old fanatics, professional racers, young teens and everyone in between. But, there hasn't been any racing in sight for years, and since then the second story wide-windowed hasn't had a view of anything. And is there anything on that property now?

Anyway, here is the track to prove it exists.

New York City condemned and purchased the racetrack in 1895 for the reservoir that was completed in 1906. You'd be amazed how old race tracks stick out like sore thumbs on a satellite image, I don't believe you can see any of it.

I believe it was the old Tri-County Fairgrounds but I have no idea where that was either. In 1911 the state legislature authorized the building of the Kingsbridge Armory on the southern part of the eastern basins. Webby ScottKo in RacingIn News, Track Promoters Get FREE Promotion with RacingIn.com's Track Directory and Race Dates Page Bowie Race Track.



Soon all these kinds of signs will be forgotten, decayed completely. This in turn led many race tracks of historical importance to be abandoned while improved ones opened elsewhere which are still available today.



The parallelism throughout this image is quite poetic. 200 LAP ENDURO NEXT UP AT 81 SPEEDWAY WITH A 3PM START TIME, FINAL REGULAR SEASON POINT SHOW (Second Try) COMING UP SATURDAY, NINE DIVISIONS MAKE UP AN "ALL DAY SUCKER" FOR FINAL REGULAR SEASON POINT SHOW, Empire Dragway (FKA New York International Raceway), Evans Mills Motorsport Park (fka Thunder Alley Speedpark), Land of Legends Raceway (fka Canandaigua Motorsports Park), New York International Raceway Park (fka Lancaster National Speedway), BRINKMANN RECORDS BEST BMARA FINISH OF SEASON, KyleBrinkmanRacing, a racer from Elkhorn, WI. Rows and rows of them, in fact, chock full with no one. Now that you mention it, I seem to remember reading about that.

Jerome Park on race day, as pictured in Harpers Weekly in 1886. This in turn led to A brief renaissance in 2010 following the tracks successful reopening, Urban Ghosts states, before it closed down again not long after.

This avoided loss of the waters hydraulic head (or pressure) or the construction of extremely high reservoir walls. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halng/Lowville.jpg.

I graduated with a Bachelor Associate's degree in English with a focus in writing at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. Web1960's/70's Era Track Google Earth : Google Earth Champlain Speedway Ticonderoga, NY 1950's Roadster Era Track Half Fast Video An excellent view - the track is now underwater. Thanks!

With 12,000 students, it was said to be the largest high school in the world in 1934.

Ida Mae Speedway, Schodack mile dirt oval (c.1939 1941) ran jalopies/ was connected with the Ida Mae Diner on US Highway 9.

recent Google Earth photos, I happened upon the Historic Aerials site, which

These stands are filled with the vacuum of crowds that once cheered and roared like nothing else, with thunderous cheering and waving. Riverhead Raceway is located in Riverhead, New York.

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Held since the 1920s, it has been a major attraction for many of the rich folks that typically stay in Monaco either overnight or during the summer months. 2/8 mile dirt.

The first track is located within eyesight of exit 41 eastbound on the NYS Thruway between Birdsey Road and Route 414, about 100 yards before the exit ramp starts.

After all, both states are known for having lots of green hills further inland from their respective eastern coastlines.

same goes for the picture of Bath racetrack. Apart from hosting the titular Daytona 500, this track is also open to the public. While it was particularly popular during the 70s, the track lost its popularity during the following decade due to the tracks poor condition which was so bad that, NASCAR refused to hold races there Urban Ghosts states.

As packed as California can get, being one of the most popular states to live at in the US, theres plenty of room for race tracks. It was built in 1953 off of the Carlisle Pike and closed after the 2005 season. Track completely gone.

This is the track that Red Durkey (spelling) opened in the early 90's.

Circle K Speedway, down near the border with PA along the western part of the Southern Tier near Whitesville.



One such example is Thunderhill, which is located Outside of Sacramento according to Road & Track.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halnewwaterloo.jpg.

East Ithaca to Camden, NY. ), http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalBowlofDeath.jpg.

Albion - Still researching this one. By The old Silver Spring Speedway is one of the area's more recently department racetracks.

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I remember driving past it back in the 70s and it was overgrown with weeds, but the grandstands were still there. It has the added distinction of being the last slot car raceway in New York City, originally just one of several dozen operating across the five boroughs.

Elmira to Sodus Point and Canandaigua, NY.

This year Buzz-a-Rama will celebrate its 55th anniversary. Your link has been automatically embedded.

No further information. His wife, Dolores Perri, is a nutritionist but helps out at Buzz-a-Rama, showing children and adults how the slot cars work.

Track served double duty as baseball park and closed when repairs to outside wall became too costly, http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Haling/Corning.jpg, Coxsackie - Coxsackie, NY.

Apart from its long history, the Interlagos track (also known as Autdromo Jos Carlos Pace) became famous due to being a challenging course with elevation changes and decreasing radius corners as stated by Road & Track. Since the track was abandoned in the 70s, A partial demolition occurred in 2002 according to Urban Ghosts.



These lanes bank left into oblivion, forever more to resonate with the haunted echoes of racers and cars that no longer run laps.

Webabandoned race tracks in new york angers asse. Slot car racing dates back to the heyday of the auto industry in the middle of the 20th century, with school children souping up their miniature automobiles just like the pros.

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Ran in the '50s and '60s. Penny Royal Speedway - Leon, NY located at the Firemans Fairgrounds, dirt oval (c.1949 late 50s) / now an Amish sawmill and farm. Paste as plain text instead, Billy Rafter finished third in that same, Not a New York track, but some interesting stuff about the North Wilkesburo (Nascar) track: If it's seating that you're worried about when going to a speedway to watch an epic NASCAR race, this place, Saugus Speedway, has got plenty of open seats.

Elmira to Sodus Point and Canandaigua, NY.

One was in Mt Holly or near Mt Holly and was used in the 1950's the other was

Below may be the best and final image of the track http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halw/Waterloo2.jpg. In the early 1900's, the fairgrounds sat at the end of Granger Street, between Fort Hill Avenue and Chapel Street the same property where Canandaigua Academy sits, and where I attended High School.

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The neglect has led to cracks forming, and the cracks in turn growing foliage, and the foliage, in turn, widening the cracks, creating more and more.

Glen Aubrey Raceway (located off Route 26 north of Endicott NY).

Despite the name implying this track is located on a mountain, its actually on a hill outside the city of Bathurst, Australia, which is a little ways north of Sydney.

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Pine Bowl, which was south of Troy NY was originally a dirt track but was later paved and closed somewhere in the 1960s (Tommy Corellis used to race here): http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/imamp;z=18&w=1. What a year as we transition onto dirt racing! North Wilkesboro Speedway was once one of the biggest and firsthubs for NASCAR racing, and it was just so for many years on end.

Both sit back in a woods and since late summer 2006 Glen Ridge is facing towns people that forced a curfew and from what i'm hearing lately also want the track closed.

It failed to perform on seat sales, paired with a big amount of issues with ownership and was left to decay in the early 2000s.

Lehman College sits directly behind reservoir walls. Penn Yan Speedway - 1/3 mile dirt.

Just one more turn, then maybe this NASCAR track won't be completely empty and abandoned, forgotten and left behind, as if it never existed in the first place. Yet the place was also used for manufacturing aircraft and as an airfield (which isnt shown in the above picture).

Palmyra 2* - 1/2 mile dirt. Its a go-to place for all the age-old fanatics, professional racers, young teens and everyone in between.

This track also closed in the 60s.

Buzz explains that when he opened the place, the real estate tax was $900 per year.

Campville Speedway was a dirt track which was located between Endicott and Owego off Route 17c near what I think used to be an 84 Lumber yard near the Susquehanna River.

It was built in 1953 off of the Carlisle Pike and closed after the 2005 season. One thing about the track is that if you we're unlucky enough to get over the high 3rd turn wall you would go down a big ravine.



The topmost view of the NASCAR races that used to take place here can be seen from the box in the above picture. Courtesy of SWA/Balsley.

Description: 1/8 mile Asphalt Drag Strip, 5/8 mile Asphalt Oval, 1/10 mile Asphalt Oval.

The Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad. The Cortland Branch. It and the land surrounding it became the site of the Jerome Park reservoir, but part of the reservoir was never built and became home to several educational institutions.

Bennetts Field: The track was on 5s east of Utica near the city line.

Photo by Duane Bailey-Castro. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalRacing/BATH.jpg. In fact, it's only the things that we've constructed that fall apart.

This photo is filled with all kinds of parallel endings, both literal and metaphorical, the imagery conveys symbols and yet also talks, in reality, the physical.

When they were exporting the product to their clientele, they had modified their cars to go extra fast in case the cops caught them and came after them.

1/3 mile dirt.

Anyone interested in a little NY State Racing history and education can help themselves here at this link.

Looks like theyre gone now?

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Built by Kenny Shoemaker.

Theres so many of them that they practically turn the track a deeper shade of grey. The latest proposal is for the worlds largest indoor ice rink. With the later construction of the Catskill and Delaware Aqueducts, it did not need to be as large as originally planned. 1/2 mile banked dirt.

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The vibrant green and blue of this photo, along with the rich oranges of sunset, make for quite a stunning photo.

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So its a pretty twisty track, but on a larger scale than Pebble Beach. Saint Lawrence Valley Speedway, Canton dirt oval (1951)- Bill Wimble started his driving career here.

Track completely gone.

Of course, the seating is open because no one wants to go to a race that doesn't exist.

In any case, it was a huge hit and still is down to this day.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halng/Victoria.jpg. Sidney's grandstand bleachers are the same bleachers that now sit in Fondas fourth turn.

Cairo* - Cairo, NY.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/Halnew/Hemlock.jpg, Hollywood Bowl aka: Route 66 Speedway Troy (Poestenkill) /located four miles south of Troy on SR 66- 1/3 mile dirt oval (c.1960-c.1963), http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalBowlRoute66.jpg, http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/HalRacing/hunt.jpg.

I was given the opportunity to talk to Mikes dad, and pick his brain about it.

Both grew up in the neighborhood.

20 Abandoned At Sunset via fox8.com This track has seen much more life in its time than it currently has at this moment at sunset, where empty echoes reverberate off the lanes and stadium seating around the empty Buffalo Civic Arena - Former home to the Buffalo Bills. Historic markers describe the Revolutionary War and transformation of the land since then. In 1930 the N.Y. Times opined that In time, perhaps, the enlarged museum may rival in importance of Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History and hold its own with such famous institutions as the Deutsches Museum of Munich, the Science Museum of London and the Technical Museum of Vienna. In the 1930s the 20-museum complex plans were scrapped and the collection was transferred the New York Museum of Science and Industry and the endowment given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1999 US News and World Report named it as one of 96 outstanding schools in America.

1/2 and 1/5 mile. I doubt there's any reminders of a track on the property though. The first track is located within eyesight of exit 41 eastbound on the NYS Thruway between Birdsey Road and Route 414, about 100 yards before the exit ramp starts.

Given that this track is located on the border of North Carolina and Virginia, it makes sense that there would be sections that require the driver to make sharp turns and go uphill. The reservoir area was the site of several Revolutionary War forts and is now the site of four parks.

McKowns Grove Speedway (aka: Capital City Speedway), Guilderland (McKownville) mile dirt oval (c.1938 1942) located on US 20 just west of Albany.

Now compared to Keimola, this race track in England is pretty famous in the history of car racing in general. This is all good stuff to know. Search by: City, State, Track Name, Track Type, or Track Surface and click on Search. That makes 2 tracks in Palmyra. Dunkirk, NY to Titusville, PA. NY , PA | CR , DAV&P , DW&P , NYC&HR , NYC , PC , WPGRR.

1/2 mile dirt.

A small creek ran over the track surface and drivers raced through it!

Buzz-a-Rama was opened in 1965 by Frank Buzz Perri, the 83-year-old proprietor who still holds court behind the counter at the Kensington, Brooklyn institution.

Thus, the track has become not only an important location for Formula One car races in general but also more prestigious compared to others.

But if I get a good day I would stop and look for any racing related stuff.

Nowadays there's just LED screens that display a vast amount of graphics, words, and info that's different every time.

It was located in a part of Westchester County, New York that was annexed into the Bronx in 1874. It's one of only seven, and it recently closed down, too.

It is considered among the citys finest brick facades. All in New York and one London, Dolores says.

YET. With the invention of the automobile in the late Nineteenth century, so did the desire to turn it into a recreational sport.

Considered to be One of the oldest race tracks in America, as stated by Road & Track, its certainly showing its age judging by the swerve lines in the above picture. There are five slot car courses inside with eight tracks each.

Meaning urban explorers, of course. Ran in 1984 only.

Since the track was abandoned in the 70s, A partial demolition occurred in 2002 according to Urban Ghosts.

Have to love the rumors right?

Plus, Most of the track has absolutely no runoff Road & Track adds meaning if a car happens to skid theres no area for them to safely drive into.



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