Located 30 minutes north of Denver, just off Interstate 25, rests the last asphalt short track in the state of Colorado.
The facility, Colorado National Speedway, has taken many forms since Gene and Gerta Heffley first conceived the idea of building a race track on what once was 80 acres of farmland at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Located in Dacono, Colorado, the track opened for business in 1965 as a one-mile dirt oval and was later reconfigured into a high-banked, half-mile dirt track. Colorado National Speedway took its current form in 1989, when the racing surface was again reconfigured and paved to create the current 0.375-mile asphalt oval…