Brown's Fork Drag Strip (Hazard)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- A coal miner's private airstrip used for pink-slip races
- Raced
- 1970s
- State
- Kentucky
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Housing development
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Address
- 511 Browns Fork Road, Hazard
- Elevation
- 902 ft (275 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.24389, -83.24017
Drag strip researcher David Allio heard from a local that this was a private airstrip belonging to a regional coal miner, who opened it to locals for pink-slip races in the early to mid-1970s. It was at 511 Browns Fork Road in Hazard, with the strip running from 37.2436, -83.2403 to 37.2450, -83.2390, confirmed on a 1983 aerial photo. The site is now a housing development. Pinning it down was hard, since Allio was told it had been in three different places.
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