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Eye on the Jr: Meet the One Year Veterans

Six of the 2025 field come to the trail with one Jr. Iditarod under the belt.  Previous race experience is valuable, but in the case of the 2025 Jr. race they will be on a new trail.  With the race beginning just off the Glenn Highway at Tolsona Lodge then running out to Lake Louise …

2025 Iditarod Restart to take place in Fairbanks, Alaska

    After careful consultation with our dedicated Trail Breakers and thorough review of current trail conditions, the Iditarod Trail Committee has made the difficult but necessary decision to move the Official Restart of the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Fairbanks, Alaska.  Previous flyovers and information collected at the end of January proved …

Eye on the Jr: Meet the Jr. Iditarod Rookies

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!  The 48th Jr. Iditarod will start over near Glenallen.  Mother Nature has provided excessive warmth and insufficient snow fall for the run to go from Knik Lake out to Yentna Station Roadhouse and back.  It doesn’t happen often as this will be the fourth race of forty-eight that organizers have moved …

Dr. Stu Nelson Named as the Iditarod Honorary Musher for the 2025 Race

    The Iditarod Trail Committee’s (ITC) Board of Directors is proud to announce Dr. Stuart Nelson as the Honorary Musher for the 53rd Running of The Last Great Race®. Dr. Stuart Nelson sadly passed away in September 2024. Nelson’s long standing dedication to the Iditarod, which spanned 38 years, has left an indelible mark …

Centennial Seppala Expedition with Johnathan Hayes

  Jonathan Hayes is a marine veteran, minister, middle school teacher, and a complete dog-man. Living with his family in Maine, he has been working to preserve the line of Seppala Siberian huskies that have had ties to the area ever since Leonard Seppala, himself, brought Togo to Maine. Seppala was a renowned dog musher …

Eye On The Trail: Serum Run Stories – 1995 Commemorative Serum Run

When Wild Bill Shannon awaited the arrival of the train from Seward bearing the diphtheria anti-toxin, he didn’t need a thermometer to know that he’d be taking off from Nenana in frigid temperatures.  He could feel it with every breath. Seventy years later, to the date – January 27th of 1995, mushers waited in Nenana …

2026 Teacher on the Trail Finalists

After filling out the rigorous Teacher on the Trail application, the following teachers were selected by the Iditarod Education Committee as our finalists. Kari Wright is a 3rd Grade teacher from Osage, IA. Kari has been using the Iditarod in the classroom since 2006 when she read an article about the race. “Whatever the age, …

Eye on the Trail: Serum Run Stories – Who was Leonhard Seppala?

As they waited for news that diphtheria anti-toxin had been located, Nome’s emergency Board of Health was creating a plan to get the much needed serum from the railroad terminus in Nenana to the desperate people of Nome. While aviation enthusiasts were evaluating the available “airships” and looking for a pilot,  the “better to be …

2025 Educational Trail Mail Design Winner and Finalists

This year’s theme, “Under the Burled Arch in Nome” brought us many fabulous Trail Mail Art Contest entries. Thanks to everyone who participated. Teagan R., age 12, of Omaha, Nebraska has been selected as the artist for the 2025 Trail Mail envelopes.  Teagan’s design was selected by Jon and Jona Van Zyle to be printed …

Eye on the Trail: Serum Run Stories – Air Mail Express?

With no roads, no trains and a frozen Bering Sea, shipping options were limited back in 1925 when Nome desperately needed diphtheria anti-toxin.  Ground transport by experienced mail carriers and their trusted dog teams would be the tried and true method but Aviation enthusiasts were quick to suggest airmail would be a much faster way …