Lynndale Farms Raceway / Race Track
by Michael R. Reilly
updated 06/07/2009
Lynndale Farms Raceway was a road racing course situated about 20 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It opened in 1963 and closed in 1967. Most websites list the track as being in Pewaukee, but it actually existed in the Town of Lisbon (with a Pewaukee postal address).
The following photos are courtesy of Jeff Nelson and his father who is an avid race track fan. He was about 23 years old living in Waukesha and, interested in racing, he participated as an SCCA track crew on corners with getting drivers back on the track, or out of their wrecked vehicles.
From Jeff: I did a quick Google search and I found a link to a website with some history and more photos of the track than I have: http://lynndalefarms.homestead.com/. Googling "Lynndale farms raceway" turned up some other links, most of them point back to this main page. They also reference the Journal Sentinel article by the link, but it’s broken and it doesn’t link to www.jsonline.com any longer (http://www.jsonline.com/homes/buy/dec03/190254.asp). However, the date/year on the link could be useful in contacting the Journal to see if it’s in their archives anywhere.
Attached are the slides (old Kodachrome slides) transferred to digital format (by Jeff's wife); then enhanced using a photo-shop type editor. The first photo is the "un-enhanced version". These are "thumbnail size...click on image to see full-size version in new window. The Journal-Sentinel did a great story on the race-track a couple of years ago.
Check this site for more photos: http://mcsccpix.homestead.com/klaxon65.html
