The ceremonial start takes place on March 1 in Anchorage, Alaska, with the official restart scheduled for March 3 in Fairbanks. The altered route extends the race distance to over 1,100 miles (1,770 ...

The 2025 edition will also feature a field low on experience, as 16 rookies — defined as any musher who does not have an ...

Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska ...

Climate change could continue to complicate iconic dogsledding races around the country as rising global temperatures make ...

Musher Quince Mountain is about to embark on his second Iditarod, a long-distance dogsled race across Alaska. We asked him ...

1967 - The first Iditarod is held, with 58 mushers competing along a 50-mile trail. March 1973 - After shorter races in 1967 and 1969, the first full-length race takes place. The course is ...