We are so excited to announce that sales for the Educational Trail Mail Project are open! This is an amazing chance for your class to send a piece of mail down the trail in one of the 2023 student-designed cachets and help us raise funds for our education programs at the same time!

It’s very simple for your class to participate:

• Head over to this link to purchase your spot on a sled for just $5. Make sure to enter your school name as the “Company Name”.
• Once your purchase is complete, you will be emailed further directions about how to send your piece of mail to be included. Basically, you will be sending one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper down the trail. What is on your paper is totally up to you! Your students could write a poem or story, they could create a piece of artwork, they could all include their signatures… Whatever you and your students decide.
• Once your piece of mail is received by our program coordinator, it will be put into an Educational Trail Mail envelope that will feature this year’s winning student art piece.
• Your now filled cachet will be taken to the Musher Meeting in Anchorage that is held on the Thursday before the race. Your musher will sign the envelope and it will be collected back by our volunteers who will have it packaged for safe travels down the trail.
• Your mail will next be delivered to your musher at the race restart on Willow Lake and will be packed safely on his or her sled for its journey to Nome.
• Once it arrives under the Burled Arch, your letter will be postmarked in Nome and put into the mail stream to make its way back to you!

Please note: We are unable to honor requests for specific mushers to carry the mail. We are also not responsible for mail being lost in the US mail system.

Each musher is limited to carrying Trail Mail from 4 classes, so be sure to take advantage of this opportunity soon! Sales begin on November 3rd and are limited to one piece of mail per class or homeschool family. If you have questions, please email trailmail@iditarod.com