An adult pays a median of $35 to ride a motocross track for a day. That is the middle of 65 tracks across 27 states that publish what they charge, read off their own price lists.
It is a simple question that the internet answers badly. Ask it and you get one track's fee page, or a forum thread from four years ago in a state you do not live in. So we counted.
The price of a day, track by track
Prices cluster hard on round numbers. Almost nobody charges $33.
65 tracks with a published adult day rate. Read 20 September 2026.
We read the price list on all 254 tracks in the Full Throttle directory. 122 of them publish pricing of some kind. From those we kept only the price one adult pays to ride for one day, which left 65 tracks in 27 states.
We threw out memberships and season passes, multi-day and weekend passes, camping, spectator and gate-only admission, youth and pee wee rates, quad and side-by-side rates, group and family rates, race entry fees, and the coaching rates at private training facilities. Where a track quotes both a member and a walk-up price, we took the walk-up price, because that is what a visiting rider pays.
Three tracks charge more than $100 for a day and sit outside the chart. 11 of the 65 also charge a separate gate fee on top of the riding fee, so at those tracks the real cost of the day is higher than the number shown.
Prices change. These were read on 20 September 2026, and the track profile is always the better source.
Where it costs more, and where it costs less
Nine states have at least three tracks publishing a rate. That is enough to show a difference, and not enough to settle an argument.
California and Texas sit at the top at $40, Ohio at the bottom at $30. Before anyone reads a trend into that: these are the tracks in our directory that publish a price, not every track in those states.
What tracks actually charge
Every rate below is the track's own published adult day rate. Follow any name for its hours, its surface and the rest of the price list.
Tracks whose price list names the rate plainly, for example "practice", "per rider" or "adult day pass". Tracks whose wording could mean a gate fee or a race entry are counted in the median but left out of this table.
What the number leaves out
The day rate is not the cost of the day. Fuel to get there is usually the bigger line. A gate fee is charged on top at some tracks. And practice is cheap next to racing: across 44 race entries on these same listings the median is $40 per class, with the middle half between $30 and $45, and most riders enter more than one class. If you ride the same track most weekends, a membership almost always beats paying at the gate.
Read the other way, $35 is not much for a day of riding. It is a tank of fuel, or two cinema tickets.
If you run a track
Here is the distribution your gate sits in. 50 of 65 tracks charge between $30 and $40, and $40 is the most common single price in the country. If you are at $20, you are in the cheapest eight per cent. If you are at $50, three tracks in this set are up there with you.
The more useful finding is how few tracks publish anything at all. Of 254 tracks, 122 list a price and the rest make a rider phone to ask. Every one of those calls is a rider deciding whether the trip is worth it without the one number they need.
If your price is missing or wrong here, claim your profile and fix it. It is free, and it is your listing.
The honest caveat
This is the median of the 65 tracks on Full Throttle that publish an adult day rate. It is not a national average, and we will not pretend it is one. There are more motocross tracks in the United States than we list, and the ones that publish a price may not price like the ones that do not. What we can say is that this is the largest set of real, published, side-by-side motocross prices anywhere we can find, and that until now the honest answer to what it costs to ride was a shrug.
It costs about $35. Now go ride.
