No stands. Spectators watch from the lake bed and from points around the desert course.
Facilities
Fireworks are banned, drink driving laws apply to off road vehicles, and everything brought in has to be packed out.
Plan your day
Getting there
Means Dry Lake is in Johnson Valley, north of Joshua Tree and near Landers, in San Bernardino County. Roads in are shared with trucks towing trailers and off road vehicles during race week.
Good to know
Good to know
The track
Hammertown is the temporary settlement that King of the Hammers sets up on Means Dry Lake, in the Johnson Valley off highway vehicle area of the Mojave Desert, north of Joshua Tree near Landers, California. For race week the dry lake bed becomes the event's base, and the desert around it is the race course. The Johnson Valley area is public land run by the Bureau of Land Management, and about 81,000 acres close to the public during the event while 46,000 acres stay open.
