The only price benchmark built from what US go-kart tracks actually publish. We index 309 operating venues; just 46% publish prices at all. Across those 142 venues, the median published starting price is $37 — but the spread is enormous, and it splits almost entirely along one line: indoor versus outdoor.
Indoor karting costs roughly 6× more to start than outdoor. The median indoor venue's cheapest published rate is $90, against $15 at outdoor tracks. Indoor chains sell multi-race packages on modern electric karts; classic outdoor tracks sell a single short session on gas karts.
Most tracks hide their prices. Only 46% of operating US venues publish pricing anywhere on their website. If a track makes you call for prices, the venues that don't are listed below — half of them start between $15 and $90.
Where you race matters as much as how. State medians run from $12 in Utah up to $90 in California — largely a function of how many premium indoor chains each state has.
States with at least three venues publishing prices. Click through to see every track in that state.
| STATE | VENUES PRICED | MEDIAN STARTING PRICE |
|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | $90 |
| Florida | 14 | $90 |
| Tennessee | 5 | $90 |
| Virginia | 3 | $90 |
| Oregon | 3 | $90 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $70 |
| Ohio | 5 | $60 |
| New York | 4 | $56 |
| Michigan | 4 | $50 |
| Idaho | 3 | $50 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $50 |
| Georgia | 5 | $40 |
| Nevada | 3 | $35 |
| Texas | 20 | $20 |
| Indiana | 3 | $18 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $16 |
| North Carolina | 9 | $12 |
| Utah | 3 | $12 |
Indoor venues sell premium multi-race packages; outdoor tracks sell short single sessions. The gap is the single biggest price driver in US karting.
Electric fleets overlap heavily with indoor chains, which is why the electric median tracks the indoor median so closely.
Across the 142 US tracks that publish pricing, the median starting price is $37. Half of all venues start between $15 and $90 — indoor electric venues cluster at the top of that range, outdoor petrol tracks at the bottom.
Indoor venues (median starting price $90) sell a premium product: climate control, modern electric karts, timing systems, and packages that bundle multiple races. Outdoor tracks (median $15) more often sell single short sessions on traditional gas karts.
No — only 46% of the 309 operating US tracks we index publish any pricing on their websites. The rest require you to call or visit, which is exactly why this index exists.
Yes. The US Go-Karting Price Index is licensed CC BY 4.0 — free to cite and republish with attribution to Go Karting USA and a link to this page.
We index 309 operating arrive-and-drive go-kart venues across the United States. For each venue that publishes pricing on its own website, we record every published rate with its source URL and collection date, then take the venue's cheapest published rate between $5 and $300 as its "starting price". Aggregates on this page are medians of those starting prices, recomputed automatically from the live database — figures were last refreshed July 2026.
Limitations worth knowing: starting prices aren't like-for-like (one venue's cheapest rate may be a single 10-minute session, another's a multi-race package); venues change rates without notice; and the 54% of tracks that publish no pricing are excluded, which likely biases the index toward larger venues. See how we verify data for the full pipeline.
License: this index is published under CC BY 4.0. Journalists, bloggers and researchers are free to cite or republish any figure with attribution to "Go Karting USA — US Go-Karting Price Index 2026" and a link to this page.
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