Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go

Midwest Connection · 5/7/09, 5:33 PM

Looking forward to my first time ever race at Bloomington Speedway. I always add a new track to my first time ever to visit list each year, and Bloomington Speedway is it for me in 2009. Also, I am contemplating stopping by Haubstadt on the way back to St. Louis on Saturday for the MSCS sprints. I really like watching the sprints at Haubstadt - Tom and Loris Helfrich put on one heck of a show every time I have been there. But, if I can't make it, and he is racing that nite - go! Hud Cone.

Have a good day...see you at the races

Rich - Arnold, Missouri

5/7/09, 8:41 PM

Rich the big thing (and I go 67 as well) is that the track is really south of town - so you are going to think you are lost - but you aren't.

racephoto1 · 5/7/09, 11:07 PM

Pat, I take West Street in Indy to Bluff, until it turns into Wicker road. Then left on 37 until I get to That Rd. Seems to work for me except for Little 500 weekend. Traffic is tough then.

5/7/09, 11:16 PM

I do that once in awhile too - when I leave the IUPUI campus - I can go bluff, I can go Harding and I can catch Kentucky and do 67 - I despise the intersection at 465 and 37 no matter how I do it - and -- Bluff is an alternative but sometimes I get in a hassled going east out of campus.

illinisprintfan · 5/8/09, 8:41 AM

Since everybody is in the directions giving mood, how about Bloomington from the Vincennes area? There doesn't seem to be a good way to get there from here. Is it better to take 5O across and then north, or 67 to Switz city and then east? I've heard the road between Bloomfield and Bloomington is pretty curvy.

5/7/09, 5:33 PM	#11 Re: Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go
Midwest Connection Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 581	Looking forward to my first time ever race at Bloomington Speedway. I always add a new track to my first time ever to visit list each year, and Bloomington Speedway is it for me in 2009. Also, I am contemplating stopping by Haubstadt on the way back to St. Louis on Saturday for the MSCS sprints. I really like watching the sprints at Haubstadt - Tom and Loris Helfrich put on one heck of a show every time I have been there. But, if I can't make it, and he is racing that nite - go! Hud Cone. Have a good day...see you at the races Rich - Arnold, Missouri

5/7/09, 8:41 PM	#12 Re: Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go
psullivan Posts: n/a	Rich the big thing (and I go 67 as well) is that the track is really south of town - so you are going to think you are lost - but you aren't.

5/7/09, 11:07 PM	#13 Re: Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go
racephoto1 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,253	Pat, I take West Street in Indy to Bluff, until it turns into Wicker road. Then left on 37 until I get to That Rd. Seems to work for me except for Little 500 weekend. Traffic is tough then.

5/7/09, 11:16 PM	#14 Re: Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go
psullivan Posts: n/a	I do that once in awhile too - when I leave the IUPUI campus - I can go bluff, I can go Harding and I can catch Kentucky and do 67 - I despise the intersection at 465 and 37 no matter how I do it - and -- Bluff is an alternative but sometimes I get in a hassled going east out of campus.

5/8/09, 8:41 AM	#15 Re: Midwest Connection - Indy to Bloomington - seeking the best way to go
illinisprintfan Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 884	Since everybody is in the directions giving mood, how about Bloomington from the Vincennes area? There doesn't seem to be a good way to get there from here. Is it better to take 5O across and then north, or 67 to Switz city and then east? I've heard the road between Bloomfield and Bloomington is pretty curvy.