Almanac note · History and culture
Ontario Motor Speedway Park keeps a race-track name in the neighborhood
Ontario Motor Speedway Park is a neighborhood park named for the former Ontario Motor Speedway, which closed after the 1980 race season.
Ontario has a lot of practical Inland Empire life: airport traffic, warehouses, wide streets, old citrus roots, shopping, and freeway errands. Ontario Motor Speedway Park adds a small clue to a louder chapter.
The park is named for Ontario Motor Speedway, which closed in the 1980s. After the 1980 race season, Chevron bought the property, and the old speedway stopped hosting races. The park was completed in 1990 inside the Chevron Center project area, turning part of that memory into a neighborhood park and school complex.
That is the useful thing about the name. If you did not know the history, the park might just look like a regular local stop with play equipment and neighborhood fields. Once you know the old speedway layer, the area reads differently. A place that once drew engines, crowds, and big-event energy became an everyday family park.
For Ontario, that change says a lot. The city has kept reinventing land around travel, commerce, housing, schools, and recreation. The park name is a quiet reminder that even ordinary corners can carry a very specific local past.
Where to see it
Ontario Motor Speedway Park at 915 North Center Avenue in Ontario.
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