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Digital Iditarod Collection. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska digitized this collection using original documents, maps, slides, photographs, maps, and publications in BLM files on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. BLM Alaska retains the items digitized.
The Iditarod Trail was developed as a response to gold rush era needs. Its antecedents were the Native trails of the Tanaina and Ingalik Indians and the Inupiaq and Yupik Eskimos. They knew the route and had developed winter modes of travel; the dogsled and snowshoe.
Map of the historical and current Iditarod trails. The Iditarod Trail, also known historically as the Seward-to-Nome Trail, is a thousand-plus mile (1,600 km) historic and contemporary trail system in the US state of Alaska. The trail began as a composite of trails established by Alaskan native peoples.
Historic Overview — Robert Kingi. Introduction: Today’s Iditarod Trail, a symbol of frontier travel and once an important artery of Alaska’s winter commerce, served a string of mining camps, trading posts, and other settlements founded between 1880 and 1920, during Alaska’s Gold Rush Era.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race first ran to Nome in 1973, after two short races on part of the Iditarod Trail in 1967 and 1969. The idea of having a race over the Iditarod Trail was conceived by the late Dorothy G. Page.
Iditarod Route Map. Catch 24-hour live stream, on-trail interviews, and all of the inside coverage on the Iditarod website. Sitnasuaq: Nome. Sitŋasuaq or Nome is the largest community in this region. The Nome region has a long and storied history.
The Iditarod National Historic Trail celebrates a 2,400-mile system of winter routes that first connected ancient Native villages and later opened Alaska to the last great American
