I-35 North Texas Dragway/North Star Dragway (Denton)

IHRA records date this strip’s opening to 1995, but nothing from that time backs it up, and aerial photos from 1995 and 1996 show no track, so it probably opened later, likely in 1998. The earliest newspaper mention is from late September 1998, when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram began running weekly notices for Friday, Saturday and Sunday racing at North Texas Dragway. Chuck Bishop incorporated I-35 North Texas Dragway Park on January 25, 1999. In the early 2000s the track was lengthened by more than 800 feet, which made it the longest all-concrete eighth-mile track in Texas at the time. It was also called Denton Dragway, and by 2007 it was North Star Dragway. NHRA named it Most Improved Track in 2012. Gene Nicodemus bought it in 2013 and switched to IHRA sanction. He put it up for sale in 2020 at $5.9 million. By spring 2020 the racing equipment had all been sold and the site was being used to store semi-trucks.