They started the Watkins Glen Grand Prix in the mid fifties on the streets and built the track I beleive in the early sixties. Like Mud says thousands of folks gather there several time a year since the day it first opened. They run a couple of NASCAR races there every year now (I'm not a fan so I don't know which series) and there are other SCCA events there through out the summer. I went up there once to detect but it was raining. Problem is, is that there must be a thousand acres total in the complex parking and camping areas are all unmown grass. They mow them only when they have an event so the grass is usually 6 inches to a foot hard swinging.