Inside Nascar legend Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s incredible $5.2m Dirty Mo Acres, featuring a Wild West town and car graveyard
DALE Earnhardt Jr.'s sweeping 300-acre property in North Carolina looks like it came straight out of a Hollywood movie set.
Sitting deep in the rural woods of the Nascar heartlands, Dirty Mo Acres contains a replica Wild West Town, a luxury garage, a 1950s style gas station, multiple race tracks, a paintball course, animals including buffalo, a golf course – and even a race track graveyard.
Earnhardt has collected more than 100 crashed cars in his wooded property, many of which are his own, while others belong to other race car drivers such as Juan Pablo Montoya, Danica Patrick, Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson.
The vehicles are all of no use to their teams and have been unceremoniously laid to rest in Earnhardt's property, where they end up being covered by tall grass and bushes over time.
Dirty Mo Acres is so big that it once took Nascar legend Earnhardt, an avid memorabilia collector, a year to find a race car lost among the wrecks.
"I say I’ve been looking for it because my property manager never tells me where he puts the new additions," Earnhardt said of his 2019 search for Wayne Jesel’s land speed car.
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"That just adds to the mystery of the graveyard."
Nascar driver Bubba Wallace recently visited the graveyard to conduct a mock funeral for his No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet, which he totaled at the Gander Outdoors 400 at Pocono Raceway in 2018.
The Old Western town, known as Whisky River, was designed as a place for Earnhardt and his friends to hang out in his single days so they would not trash his main residence.
It includes a working saloon and a hotel with three rooms, as well as a bank, barber shop, post office, pharmacy, sheriff’s office complete with jail, chapel and general store.
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“Only one guy ever had to spend a night in the jail,” Earnhardt told Uproxx. “He just needed to go to bed.”
There are even mannequins of horses and cowboys to complete the look, while some of the buildings were constructed from wood from an old mill in the Mooresville area in North Carolina.
Earnhardt got the idea for Whisky River after being inspired by Willie Nelson's old movie set on his property, which was featured on television.
"I wanted a place for my friends and I to hang out and I didn't want to destroy my house," Earnhardt told HBO Sports.
Earnhardt also owns a bar in Charlotte named Whisky River, which is named after the Old Western replica town.
The garage, known as Dirty Dome, contains a number of cars, winner’s circle checks, trophies, driving suits and even sheet metal off his cars.
There is also a basketball court complete with a locker room where Earnhardt's crew regularly used to play.
Meanwhile, Earnhardt, his wife Amy and their two daughters Nicole and Isla live in an 11,784-square-foot mansion in the property which is worth around $5.2million.
“I’m fascinated with nature taking over,” Earnhardt says of his Dirty Mo property.
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“When we’re gone, somebody’s gonna run into this. When I bought this property this whole area was woods. It’ll probably be woods again someday.
"Wouldn’t it be cool if someone stumbled onto this?"
