Jack Garland Airport/King of the Hill Dragway (North Bay)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Annual fund-raiser for North Bay General Hospital
- Raced
- 2003-8
- Province
- Ontario
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- On the site today
- Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- Jack Garland Airport, North Bay
- People
- Rotary Club of Nipissing, organizer
- North Bay Motor Sports, organizer
- Elevation
- 1,181 ft (360 m)
- Coordinates
- 46.36366, -79.41326
One weekend each year, Jack Garland Airport in North Bay hosted eighth-mile drag racing to raise money for North Bay General Hospital. The Rotary Club of Nipissing and North Bay Motor Sports organized it.
Background
The airport is at Hornell Heights, about 4.6 miles north-northeast of North Bay, right beside Canadian Forces Base North Bay, the control centre for NORAD's Canadian operations. It's named for Jack Garland, who represented the Nipissing riding in Parliament for many years, and it put on an air show during the city's Heritage Festival until 2004.
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