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Cheyenne Dragway

ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.

Raced
1959-early 1970s
State
Wyoming
What's left
You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
On the site today
Asphalt removed
First race
by 1959
Surface
Asphalt
Location
East side of Highway 85, just north of the Colorado-Wyoming border, just east of Terry Ranch Road
People
  • Cheyenne Timing Association, race operator (1959-62)
  • Al Farrens, track manager (1968)
Sanction
NHRA
Elevation
6,163 ft (1,879 m)
Coordinates
41.05647, -104.79542

The Cheyenne Timing Association was running drag races by 1959, with races that year on June 21 and July 24-26. Under NHRA sanction it raced once a month in 1960, and in 1961 on June 11, July 9, August 5-6 and September 10. The two-day August race was an NHRA regional, covered in the January 1962 Hot Rod. In 1962 races were held on May 6, June 3, July 1 and August 12. Al Farrens managed the track in 1968. One researcher placed the old strip on the east side of Highway 85, just north of the Colorado-Wyoming line and just east of Terry Ranch Road. The asphalt is gone.

Cheyenne Dragway, 1964 USGS topo map
Cheyenne Dragway, 1964 USGS topo map
Cheyenne Dragway, 1960 aerial view
Cheyenne Dragway, 1960 aerial view
Although the asphalt has been removed, their is a faint remnant of the old strip and the return road at the south end of where the old strip was.
Although the asphalt has been removed, their is a faint remnant of the old strip and the return road at the south end of where the old strip was.

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