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Iditarod still plans to hold a race, but it won’t end in Nome Published December 18, 2020
Iditarod veteran Laura Neese and her dog team from McMillan, Michigan, leave the restart of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Willow on Sunday, March 8, 2020. Iditarod organizers announced that the 2021 race route will begin and end in Willow. (Bill Roth / ADN)
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Print article The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will follow a revised trail that won’t lead mushers to Nome in 2021. Instead, mushers will make a round-trip run of about 860 miles that begins and ends in Willow and includes two crossings of the Alaska Range. Dog teams will travel a little beyond Iditarod, the ghost town that marks the midway point of the race’s southern route, before turning around.