Not only did my wife approve of this, she says we can keep it!
I mowed the yard at the highest blade setting then dropped the mower deck to the lowest notch and free formed a track. We used it for my son's birthday party to race pretend monster trucks (kids wearing moving boxes decorated like monster trucks). Then we busted out the power wheels and other ride-on toys which worked great. Yesterday I ran my 1/12 scale monster truck around it. I should have done this years ago.
Red X, would love to see this.
Pump track.
That's all I have to say. 
In reply to slefain:
It's a great start. Now chop a bunch of those trees and brush out of there and make it big enough to run a real car around it!
needs more hairpins! I would extend it out around the tree and do a hairpin around the tree and make your own "oak tree" corner. Also banked turns!
I keep threatening my wife that I'm going to do this all around our yard for my KT100 kart. I've even priced paving it. It would only cost $3500 to put in a decent little 5' wide track around the yard with a few wider straights for passing
Changed the photo to Flickr, should work now.
I wish I could extend the yard, but what you see is all I have for property. It will make a great R/C car track though. Still working on teaching my son how to use the pistol grip R/C controller.
And here's the monster truck cookie cake my wife made for our son:
Most Awesomest Cake Evar!!1!1!!
Two words:
MINIBIKE!
You guys are awesome parents!
This is awesome!
Damn that cake is too awesome to eat!
The family that plays together...
We had our sewer replaced and after it was covered up, it looked like the perfect start for a back yard track. Couldn't quite convince my wife though. 
wvumtnbkr wrote: Two words: MINIBIKE!
One word: Gokart!
More than likely the word will be Traxxas, and maybe Tamiya...
the house my cousin moved into a few years ago had a track like that in the back yard that the previous tenant used for RC trucks... it even has a jump... his kids are into motocross and like to pretend that their pedal bikes are motocross bikes when they aren't at a track somewhere doing motocross stuff... they use that track a lot and have even used 2X4's piled up to make a whoop section, as well as a few different home made and store bought ramps for more places to get sweet air..
As a huge monster truck fan from age 3, I buy you a virtual beer my friend.
Although I did have a toy monster truck track in my basement, I would have loved something like that. I would have also loved a flat yard, too.
Google hasn't updated the overhead lately...the layout has changed a bit. More chicaines and a few twisties have been added. Yeah, it's a lot of fun 
That cake is FANTASTIC!!!! No I want to go get a bunch of toll house cookies
It's cool things like that that make me wonder if I'm missing out not having kids. But, one 2 foot snow storm, I did shovel out a figure 8 race track for my pug and put Jim on it to let him run around and called it the pugtona 500
In reply to nepa03focus:
Why wait for kids? I keep so much stuff around for when we have kids. My wife gets it, so I have a great excuse for shenanigans like this.
We have the good fortune to live in 5 acres of trees and we have a dirt circuit on the back 3. A poor innocent yerf dog got its' briggs removed and replaced with a hazard fraught 13hp honda knockoff. It's more fun than we deserve...
nepa03focus wrote: It's cool things like that that make me wonder if I'm missing out not having kids. But, one 2 foot snow storm, I did shovel out a figure 8 race track for my pug and put Jim on it to let him run around and called it the pugtona 500
Yep. And I don't even have a dog... (sigh...) My mother is still holding on to a glimmer of hope now that I'm single again (no way in HELL was my last g/f ever having kids).
You don't need kids to do this, just a few friends who appreciate toys:
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