Discover Weedsport

Weedsport offers three distinct themes to explore during a stay: motorsports, the area's history, and activities along the remains of the Erie Canal. When planning your hotel stay, it helps to first consider whether you want to plan your trip around a specific speedway event, focus on historical topics, or set aside time for hiking and cycling. The following places and routes each offer a different point of reference.

Speedway and Event Calendar

Weedsport Speedway is located at 1 Speedway Drive in Weedsport, New York, just off Route 31. The track is a 3/8-mile dirt oval and first opened on July 24, 1955. Its address helps you locate it, while the track layout and opening date give the speedway a clear place in motorsports history.

The 2026 event calendar included nine events from May through September. If the speedway is the reason for your trip, check the calendar for your planned travel year and the date of the specific event before setting your accommodation dates. For planning purposes, it is therefore not just the general time of year that matters, but the exact day the event you want to attend takes place.

Motorsports and the Area's History

Another motorsports-related point of interest is the DIRT Motorsport Hall of Fame and Classic Car Museum, which opened in 1992. Alongside the speedway's first opening on July 24, 1955, this provides a second opening year. The two dates mark separate milestones in motorsports history and distinguish the racetrack from the museum.

The Old Brutus Historical Society is located on the Erie Canal Bike Trail in Weedsport. It presents the area's history as a canal town, as well as its agricultural and commercial history. This adds a different historical perspective to the motorsports theme: it focuses on the area's development, agriculture, and economy. If you choose history as the focus of your trip, you can distinguish between motorsports and classic cars on the one hand, and the canal town, agriculture, and commerce on the other.

Hiking and Cycling Along the Old Erie Canal

For outdoor activities, an off-road section runs from Weedsport via Centerport Aqueduct Park to Schasel Park in Port Byron. Along the remains of the old Erie Canal, you can hike and cycle there. The section has a named starting area at Centerport Aqueduct Park and a named destination at Schasel Park in Port Byron. Here, the activity is the main consideration for planning: you can choose hiking or cycling as your focus while taking the route's connection to the canal into account.

When choosing the reason for your trip, the key question is whether you are heading to a specific speedway event or would rather focus on motorsports history, the area's history, or getting active along the canal. For the speedway, the event date is the planning anchor; the different historical themes and the route section each offer additional, distinct ways to tailor your trip to your interests.

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