The course change adds more than 100 miles, so teams of dogs will have to pull their mushers over 1,100 miles to the finish line.
The World’s Most Famous Sled Dog Race Is Longer Than Ever. Here’s A Look At The Iditarod, By The Numbers

The course change adds more than 100 miles, so teams of dogs will have to pull their mushers over 1,100 miles to the finish line.
According to the Census Bureau, 13.3% of funding for public elementary and secondary schools came from the federal government in the 2021-22 school year.
Warren Hill spent more than two decades working at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which spans 4 million acres of coastline, forests, lakes and glaciers in Alaska.
Since his election, President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed support for a major natural gas pipeline in Alaska — comments that have drawn fresh attention to a project that’s floundered for years despite support from state leaders.
A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the start of the Iditarod farther north.
Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley.
The commuter flight that crashed on Alaska sea ice last week, killing all 10 aboard.
Crews on Saturday succeeded in recovering the remains of those killed in the Bering Air crash from a drifting ice floe before the anticipated onset of high winds and snow.
The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.
A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice, and all 10 people on board died, authorities said.