BACK TO THE EIGHTIES IN 2024!
2024 MIDWEST RIDE-IN
January 26-27, 2024
ERX Motor Park, Elk River, MN
We've Moved!
Join Us at Our New Location!
Elk River Motorsports Park in Elk River Minnesota
The Elk River Motorsports Park in Elk River Minnesota is a world-class facility dedicated to all forms of motorsports that got it’s start with snowmobiles!
There is ample parking, a beautiful facility for our live action, awards ceremony and banquet, a snow race track (no worries about low-snow seasons, they can make their own!) and miles of trails that leave right from the facility.
The Midwest Ride-In is the world's biggest family-friendly vintage snowmobile get together.
Our Organizational Committee is working hard to hold our end-of-January event.
Held annually at the Elk River Motorsports Park (ERX) in Elk River Minnesota. It’s a snowmobile ride on beautiful Minnesota trails, the world’s largest show of old sleds, trail ride, judged show, youth races, vintage snowmobile racing.
Come celebrate winter with some of the finest folks in the world on the last weekend in January
2022 E-Brochure
- events and schedule
- map of facility
- sponsors
Midwest Ride-In News
MEMORY LANE — Princeton and Hay Days
Pictures from Memory Lane at Princeton show. See more eye candy under the white tent at Hay Days in 2 weeks. Brought to you by
Midwest Ride-In at Delano, MN 4th of July parade
It’s never too early to plan to attend the BACK TO THE EIGHTIES show at ERC next January
Did you see that picture of you at ERX – TRIPLE WARS?
You can reminisce about the TRIPLE WARS Midwest Ride-In weekend by perusing the 600 images on our event file-sharing website: https://www.smugmug.com/app/organize/2023-event-at-ERX-featuring-TRIPLE-WARS The images are all in
Hungry?
At our outdoor event, you will get hungry. Here is our answer, courtesy of a local snowmobile club — the Elk Lake Easy Riders.
A typical count served up: 2,219 pork chops, 1,215 hamburgers, 600 hot dogs, 31 gallons of home-made chili. Visit their main tent near the ballroom, or their satellite food truck near the racetrack CHALET building.
The Elk River Easy Riders Club serves the most addicting, awesome tasting pork chops you’ll ever enjoy on a cold winter day. People come to the event just for the pork chops.
Fresh, BBQ’d right outside and seasoned to perfection – it’s no wonder these amazing things often make people ask:
Vintage snowmobiling isn’t all about the machines. It’s also about the fun, colorful and amazing people who share a common interest in these machines… and a nostalgia for a time when we all realized winter is the best part of the year.
Come celebrate that passion with us this winter!
Thank a Volunteer!
Thanks to all the volunteers that helped pull this off:
- Midwest Vintage Snowmobile Show Committee
- River City Snow Riders
- Elk Lake Easy Riders and many North Metro snowmobile clubs
- Carver County Snow Runners
- CentraSota Vintage Sledheads
- Chaska Sno-Hawks
- Westonka SnoBlazers
- Southwest Trails
- SouthTonka Snowmobile Club
- Region 8 – MnUSA
Join a snowmobile club near you!
The volunteers who help you get all those cool shirts and stuff at every Midwest Ride-In!
Just How Big is the Midwest Ride-In?
Checkout these images from our event when held in Waconia. It really was a perfect location for close to 30 years, but the city has expanded and much of the onsite parking is now a housing development necessitating our move in 2020.
ERX Motor Park in Elk River, MN is the Midwest’s premier year-round motorsports and event facility, featuring off-road and snowmobile racing, concerts and charitable events. There are over 10 miles of wooded trails on the 500 acre private property, a world class snocross track, and a nearly one mile dirt off-road truck track.
This is Sunday. Foreground is the sleds lined up for the judged show. Behind see the oval race track from our previous location before moving to Elk River for the 2020 show.
The view from outside the plane window – the event is so big that it is hard to fit it all in one photo!
On the lake are the drag racing lanes to the right, parking to the left and oval track.
This shows Sunday morning action — judged show area in the forefront, ballroom to the right and behind it the swap meet area.