Rex Speedway History
Rex Speedway stood at the current intersection of 105th Street and Barnes Avenue in Inver Grove Heights. Rex Speedway was a half mile, high-banked, oval, dirt racetrack that held, sotck car and hot rod races, and it also had "wreck races", similar to modern day demolition derbies, from 1949 to 1954.
The Dakota County Sheriff's Office was forced to close the speedway in 1954 because there were fatal crashes three consecutive years. Despite its closure, some people still went to Rex to race in the dark until one day, a racer crashed with a refrigerator that had been dumped on the track. Rex Speedway was a fun place for families to go and watch a race. Rex speedway is now overgrown, but if you go to where it was, you can still tell that there was a racetrack there.