Eagle River Derby Track
Posted on 22nd February, 2012 by Chaz
Host of the world snowmobiling race championships. Tickets, seating map, online driver entry form.
1964. The sport actually had its beginning some 40 years before that when Carl Eliason of Sayner invented the first snowmobile that could be related to the present machines. Although it was more of a snow toboggan, it had the same principles -- skis, and a track to drive the machine over the snow. But it was not until 1964 that the new snow machines caught the fancy of the sporting world. And it all began in Eagle River, when John Alward of Chanticleer Inn, his wife, Betty, and Walter