The historic Willow Springs International Raceway motorsports facility located in Rosamond, California, about 90 minutes north of Los Angeles, is for sale.
The 600-acre facility’s roots go back to 1953 when a flowing, nine-turn, 2.5-mile road course was built and soon earned the reputation as “the Fastest Road in the West.”
Over the years, the facility was expanded by long-time owner Bill Huth. Now, Willow Springs International Raceway includes eight separate tracks: the 2.5-mile paved road course (which was partially repaved in 2023), the 1.8-mile Streets of Willow paved road course, the one-mile Horse Thief Mile paved road course, the paved 0.625-mile Willow Springs Kart Track, a 0.25-mile paved autocross and drifting track called the Balcony, the quarter-mile Willow Springs Speedway paved oval, and Walt James Stadium, which includes 3/8-mile paved and clay oval tracks.
Thanks to the favorable Southern California weather, the facility operates year-round and has hosted sanctioned racing, riding and driving schools, track days, and TV and movie production non-stop since it opened.
In 1996, Willow Springs International Raceway was designated a California Point of Historical Interest.
Huth died at the age of 91 in 2015, but by then his children were running the facility and continue to do so.
No asking price for the track has been made public, but a real estate listing can be found HERE.
We will update this post with more information as it becomes available.
Update:
“Five generations of our family have enjoyed being stewards of America’s first purpose-built road racing circuit,” Stephanie Huth, daughter of Bill Huth, wrote in a message to Roadracingworld.com. “Our parents, Bill and Maxine, bought a ghost of a 2.5-mile road course in the middle of nowhere. They had no backing. Dad had $17 the day they paved it. Sacrifices were made. Today, it is a unique and substantial motorsport and technological complex, ready for its new chapter. Personally, I can’t wait to see what the next stewards will do. Like Dad, I’m still waiting for someone to do a one-minute lap on ‘the Fastest Road in the West.'”
