With the exception of ETown, that list goes straight up middle America. I guess whoever wrote that list lives within 8 hours drive of most of those facilities. Secondarily, since it is "Popular Hot Rodding", I would guess they are coming at this from a street car event perspective, to where big show facilities and crowds are not taken into account (nor would they have to be). With that said, I cannot imagine anything that could be done at Columbus, that Vegas or Bandimere could not do three times as well.
Indy and Gainesville were curious ommissions, while neither facility is going to be called "state of the art", neither lags behind Columbus that's for sure!