6 Day Iditarod Race Start Tour

2024 Iditarod Race Start Tour Package. This tour is designed to let you experience all of the excitement of the race start, enjoy some fabulous sightseeing and wildlife viewing along Turnagain Arm and spend an exciting day learning to drive your own dog team. We start this tour with an incredible dog mushing experience at the Alaska Mushing School. Here you will tour the kennel, learn about dog mushing and take a dog sled ride. Most of our clients consider this to be the highlight of the tour. At the Iditarod Race Banquet you will mingle with the mushers, have photo ops with them and the opportunity to wish them well. Clients have the option to go through the dog handler certification that allows them to help bring the sled dogs up to the starting line at the Race start. How exciting is that for Iditarod fans! Optional activities at Alyeska include snowshoeing, snowmobiling, helicopter rides and of course skiing. With all the excitement of the Iditarod Race start, 1st rate lodging and meals, spectacular scenery and the dog mushing experience, this Iditarod Race Tour is a wonderful introduction to the Iditarod and one you will truly enjoy.

6 Day Iditarod Race Start Tour Package Highlights

  • Learn about dog mushing and ride the runners on a 6 mile trail at the Alaska Mushing School
  • Attend the ceremonial Iditarod Race Start in Anchorage
  • Attend the Iditarod Race restart in Willow
  • Sightseeing excursion to the Alaska Wildlife Center
  • Afternoon visit to beautiful Alyeska ski resort with scenic tram ride up Mount Alyeska
  • Attend the Mushers Meet and Greet followed by the Musher's Banquet
  • Visit to the Iditarod Museum in Wasilla
  • Visit to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art
  • Cost and Details

    Feb. 27 - March 04, 2024. $2800 pp. shared accommodation, single supplement $600. Tour price includes all taxes.

    Tour cost Includes

  • 6 Nights Accommodation at the Hilton Hotel in Anchorage, right near the ceremonial start line
  • Dog Mushing at the Alaska School of Mushing kennel
  • Group meals as indicated on the itinerary
  • Musher's Banquet tickets
  • Transportation to the Iditarod Race Headquarters Museum
  • Transportation to the Iditarod Restart in Willow
  • Trip to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art
  • Tour to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
  • Tour to scenic Alyeska Ski resort and Tram ride up Mt Alyeska
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    Dog in Box

    John Baker

    Resting Dog

    coming under the burl arch

    John Baker Champ

    musher

    client Wayne Hazel

    "Going to the see the Iditarod was the fulfillment of a lifetime dream for me. Ever since reading "Call of the Wild" in grade school I have dreamed of braving the last frontier. After reading a review of Montagna's trip in Outdoor Photographer magazine, I signed up for the adventure of a lifetime. Montagna's tour was the perfect blend of guided tour and individualism, attentive enough to guide us to the key things we needed to see, without creating an overbearing tour where every second is planned out". Wayne Hazel