Checkpoint

Nome

Checkpoint: Nome

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Location: 64.4964, -165.3996

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Population 3576 -- The end of the Iditarod Trail! Prospectors established this Seward Peninsula city as Anvil City after adjacent Anvil Creek in 1898. A year later gold was discovered in beach sand and it became a boom town, home of 30,000 gold seekers. The city was renamed Nome in 1899 after a nearby point on Norton Sound, which got its name in 1853 when a British Navy cartographer misinterpreted a chart notation of “? Name” and recorded it as Nome. The gold rush atmosphere still abounds, especially when “Iditarod Fever” hits town with the entire community turning out to welcome the mushers and visitors alike to their community. Numerous stores, restaurants and bars line Nome’s infamous “Front Street”, but lodging is at a premium. If the hotels, Nome Nugget and the Aurora Inn are booked, contact the Nome Convention and Visitors Bureau for a list of bed and breakfast places or for any other lodging options they might have.



Year Race Route Checkpoint Number Miles into race
2024 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2023 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 998
2022 North 23 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2020 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2019 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 998
2018 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 998
2017 South 19 — View Checkpoint Standings 979
2016 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2015 South 19 — View Checkpoint Standings 979
2014 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2013 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 998
2012 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 975
2011 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1123
2010 North 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 1112
2009 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1131
2008 South 24 — View Checkpoint Standings 1112
2007 North 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1122
2006 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1151
2005 North View Checkpoint Standings 1161
2004 South View Checkpoint Standings 1102
2003 North 23 — View Checkpoint Standings 1121
2002 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1151
2001 North 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1161
2000 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1151
1999 North 26 — View Checkpoint Standings 1161
1998 South 25 — View Checkpoint Standings 1151
1997 North 26 — View Checkpoint Standings 1161
1981 North 26 — View Checkpoint Standings 1161