Seattle’s Kart Pike Go Kart Track

November 27, 2023

If you head to 192nd and Aurora Avenue North in what is now the City of Shoreline, you would have no idea that it was home to a go-kart track right on the corner during the ’60s. Kart Pike Go Kart Track opened in the early ’60s and was apparently still up and running at the end of the decade in this unincorporated North Seattle area. No idea what a few laps cost back then, but odds are it was good, clean fun with minimal spend.

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