Big Country Speedway

I can say that I don’t frequent the BCS very much, in fact, it’s only twice, but even with their small roots, they really do try to make some fun for the entire family.
So, if it’s your first time going to BCS, you have to drive on South Greeley Highway for quite a few miles. You’ll want to to turn at about the Palomino Industries building and if you have driven into Colorado, well, you’ve driven too far.
Once you get into the speedway you’ll find that you’ll need to find somewhere to park. It’s not the easiest to find parking (get there early).
Once you get in, you”l have a chance to buy tickets, grab some snack food (they have pizza as well) and then head for the bleachers to watch the driving.
The bleachers, well, they have seen some hard days. If you are their with family or friends though, it’s not a big concern. You may want to bring a blanket.
You then get to watch cars. You get to watch small cars, bigger Legend cars, you name it. They will have a show for you.
At the end, they will even let you go into the backlot where the drivers are (some are as young as 14) and your kids can get autographs, stickers and a lot of different things from the drivers.
Overall, I can’t say that I felt like I wasted money going there.

OK, it’s a Saturday evening in the summer in Cheyenne. So what do you do? Play a video game? Get loaded at a bar? Watch TV? How about going to real, old school stock car races? For real stock car races with real smells, real noise, real wrecks, real attitudes! That sugar coated NASCAR crap on TV doesn’t come close to the experience of seeing it live in front of you. A little red neck fun on the cheap.
This venue is a quarter mile paved asphalt track with just a touch of bank on the corners. They run multiple types of cars each night including various types of stocks, modifiers and (egad) Legends. I remember my dwarf and sprint driver friends saying «it’s better to be a legend than to drive one». So true.
This track has nice bleachers, ample parking, food and beer sales. It a cheap $ 10 night’s fun. There are family-​friendly areas marked off in the stands where no smoking or drinking is allowed. Nice.
Each race is pretty short, only about 20 laps. On a quarter mile track, that can go pretty quickly except when there are spinouts, wrecks and other mayhem. And that does happen. It takes a bit to go get the hook and pull apart the carnage. The fun bit is with all the safety gear and the short track, people don’t get hurt, but they do tangle up! So, as they say at our California track «let’s trade some paint!».
I was in town to visit my son at the local air base and hauled his crew of jokers over to the track for the evening. We had a blast. This is rural Americana at its finest.

To ALden C. Get over yourself! Love this speedway! Lots of fun and exciting. Can’t wait for 2013!
Dr. Lowe

On a normal day I wouldn’t be caught dead at a place like this. However I did go with my cousin and a friend to the speedway and I actually enjoyed myself .
The speedway is very small and the race cars are often slamming into each other. I am well aware they do this at large speedways but it is hard to discern if this was happening because of the size of the speedway or if i just was witnessing just normal racing ‘etiquette’.
The crowd to put it mildly is interesting and if you like to people watch then this is the place to go. It seems like about three trailer courts dropped off their tenants here for the evening. Definitely a culture I am not a part of and that is OK by me.
This year (The year of 2011) the season has been cut short due to bad weather and threats against the drivers. Wait. Threats against the drivers? By whom? With a rough crowd like this who knows how the actual drivers treat each other. A rough and tumble good time to say the least.