North Hudson Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Adirondack Drag Strip
- Jon Button set a national class record of 6.71 at 121.46 MPH in July 1966
- Raced
- 1964-ca. 1969?
- State
- New York
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Wonder View Road, with a few homes
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- June 21, 1964
- Last race
- 1969 (last documented)
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- North Hudson, now Wonder View Road
- People
- Adirondack Eliminators, Inc., builder (1964)
- Sanction
- NASCAR
- Elevation
- 962 ft (293 m)
- Coordinates
- 44.00486, -73.70052
Adirondack Eliminators, Inc. finished building this eighth-mile strip in time for its first race on June 21, 1964. An early newspaper story reported that Mark Keilen, 20, of Latham suffered a concussion and a broken arm when his car rolled several times on September 20, 1964. In July 1966 the track held a two-day NASCAR-sanctioned meet where Jon Button set a national class record of 6.71 at 121.46 MPH. It was called Adirondack Drag Strip in 1968, when it appeared on a list of 325 U.S. drag strips in the Swedish magazine Start & Strip. In 1969 it held a Super Stock “spectacular” on three dates for racers who traveled as a circuit. Nothing has been found after 1969. A 1976 topographic map shows an airfield where the strip was, and today the site is Wonder View Road, serving a few homes.
