Lost Tracks of the Midwest: The MX Facilities We've Said Goodbye To

Our directory tracks every motocross facility we can verify across eight states — including the ones that are gone. We keep closed tracks listed as a historical record, because every one of them was somebody's home track. This is a tour of what the Midwest has lost, drawn from those listings.

When the Nationals Came to Nebraska

Omaha Moto Park — Herman, NE. The biggest name on this list. From 1977 to 1979, this Washington County facility hosted AMA Pro Motocross Nationals — the actual national circuit, in rural Nebraska. The track held on a few more years after the pros left and went quiet around the mid-1980s. Most riders in the region today have never heard of it, which is exactly why the listing stays up.

Built Big, Gone Anyway

Scale didn't save these:

• Midwest Extreme Park — Drexel, MO. Roughly 250–310 acres built by riders, for riders: a 1.25-mile natural-terrain MX track, a hare-scramble loop that stretched up to 9 miles, an arenacross track, a vet track, a 500-yard rhythm section, and multiple kids tracks. All of it now closed.
• Highway 89 Raceway — Sherwood, AR. A privately owned 500-acre park on the edge of the Little Rock metro with about 12 miles of moto trails, an MX/arenacross track, and a freestyle park. Google lists it permanently closed.
• The Track at Holzhauers — Nashville, IL. Backed by the Holzhauer Auto & Motorsports Group and a Mid-America MX Series venue; the last event referenced on its official site is the Southern Illinois Shootout in 2020.

The Recent Goodbyes

• Riverside Raceway — Winterset, IA. The freshest loss on this list — active as recently as May 2025 before a liquidation auction surfaced. It ran Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday schedules in its final seasons.
• Fun Valley MX — Montezuma, IA. Confirmed closed; the land has been sold.
• Soaring Edge MX Park — Greenwood, NE. Sat between Lincoln and Omaha — prime location, which may have been the problem. The land has been redeveloped.
• Hawkeye Downs MX — Cedar Rapids, IA. The Cedar Valley Trail Riders ran "Dirt at the Downs" MX events here; the last documented one was 2017.

The Family Tracks

Most lost tracks were never big operations — they were a family, a tractor, and a piece of ground:

• Knobby Hill MX Park — Cosby, MO. A family-run track just outside St. Joseph with a groomed main track and a kiddie track. Riders consistently praised the layout and the family who ran it. A 2024 Google review confirms it's no longer operating.
• Letz Go Nutz Offroad Park — Foley, MO. A hundred acres with an MX track, six miles of woods trails and mud bogs — for $10 a rider. RiderPlanet now lists it bluntly: "Area permanently closed. No visitors please."
• Fancy Creek Motocross Park — Randolph, KS (closed around 2019) and Buffalo Motocross — Buffalo, MO, a natural-terrain mile of loam, sawdust and a long uphill triple — both gone quiet.
• Hurricane Hills MX Park — Mazeppa, MN. Sixty acres, a 1.2-mile AMA District 23 track, $30 Saturdays. Permanently closed.

Why Tracks Die

The pattern across these listings is familiar to anyone who's been around the sport: rising land values that make a farm field worth more as anything else (Soaring Edge's ground is already redeveloped), insurance costs that climb every season, noise pressure as houses creep closer, and owners who simply age out with nobody to hand the gate keys to. A motocross track is almost never killed by lack of riders — it's killed by everything around the riding.

Not Dead — Just Sleeping

A separate shelf in the directory holds tracks that are inactive rather than gone — facilities where the gate is shut but the track is still in the dirt:

• Sky High MX Park — Old Appleton, MO. Professionally designed by Dirt Wurx USA on roughly 300 acres and described as one of the best amateur builds in the country. Currently inactive — the one on this page most worth bringing back.
• Three Hills Event Center — Nebraska City, NE. A 1.2-mile natural-terrain course with real elevation and a former AHRMA national on its résumé; currently listed inactive.
• Boone Valley MX Park — Sullivan, MO and Playground MX — Carthage, MO — both quiet, neither confirmed gone.

If you know something about any of these — a reopening, a sale, a final closure — use the suggest-an-update link on the track's page. This record stays accurate because riders keep it accurate.

The Moral

Every track on this page was open the year before it wasn't. The tracks that survive are the ones that get ridden: gate fees are the whole business model. Find your nearest active track, check what's open this weekend, and go put money through the gate of a place you'd miss — while it's still there to miss.