Pre

Pre-Catamount History

EARLIEST TRACKS

Pico Raceway Rutland, Vermont

Stateline Speedway Bennington, Vermont

Fairmont Park Motor Speedway Fair Haven, Vermont

Mettawee Speedway Granville, New York

Dog River Speedway Northfield, Vermont

Davis Racetrack Enosburgh Falls, Vermont

Northeastern Speedway Waterford, Vermont

Cheshire County Fairgrounds Keene, NH

Ashland Park Speedway Warrensburg, NY
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Morrisville Race Track
Morrisville, VT
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Webster Flats Speedway Lyndonville, VT
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East Corinth Speedway
E. Corinth, VT
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Whites Beach Speedway
Ballston Lake, NY

Early Tracks in Chittenden County, Vermont
FUTURE PROJECT

The Background

Racing in Vermont had been going strong since the days of Fair Haven's Fairmont Speedway, the fairgrounds in Sheldon, Bennington's Stateline Speedway, Rutland's Pico Raceway, and even nearby Granville, NY's Mettawee Speedway. In Northern Vermont, various race tracks have operated in South Burlington, Malletts Bay, Enosburg Falls, Waterford, and Vergennes' Otter Creek Speedway - to name a few.

Tracks sprang up all over Vermont, as well as surrounding areas in nearby states. Tracks in places like Northfield, Vermont; Sheldon, Vermont; Ticonderoga, New York; Warrensburg, New York; and Colchester, Vermont are a few of the almost - totally - forgotten speedways that helped shape the sport.

Some of these participants - or sons, daughters, and grandchildren of these participants have gone on to compete, become mechanics, pit crew, or even write - all in an effort to be in the Vermont racing scene. It is these people who laid the groundwork and made Catamount Stadium what it was.

State Championships were established at practically every track, and a few men stood out among the early Vermont stock car racing fraternity as those who had a big effect on the state's racing and, therefore, on Catamount Stadium - when Catamount began in the mid 1960's.