Pioneer Valley Indoor Karting

In Hatfield, in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley Indoor Karting lays out a petrol karting circuit, presented as one of the fastest in the state. The covered track extends in summer into a layout combining indoors and outdoors. Children can drive from the age of eight, subject to being at least one metre twenty tall, on the same track as adults, which makes it an outing open to the whole family.

The site offers arrive-and-drive driving for all levels, birthdays with a private party room, corporate events and racing leagues with a leaderboard. A popular package offers three races per person, with fifteen to twenty-five laps per race. Open since two thousand and twelve and locally run, it welcomes families and groups in a friendly atmosphere turned towards speed and the clock. The fact that children drive on the same track as adults, from the age of eight, makes it a real family outing, and the move to a mixed layout in summer adds a welcome open-air dimension to the covered winter format.

Hatfield lies in the valley of the Connecticut river, at the heart of the Pioneer Valley, a short way from Northampton and Amherst and their colleges. Between fields, river bends and hills, the rural Massachusetts region lends itself to escapes. At the heart of New England, the Pioneer Valley Indoor Karting adds a dose of driving, indoors as well as in the open air, open all year round.