The name Iditarod comes from the Indian name "Clearwater"
The dog sled race name, Iditarod, means '' clear water''
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it was from the ghost town iditarod in the northern route.
The dog sled race name, Iditarod, means '' clear water''
There is a town on the iditarod trail named idtarod, so they named the trail after it i guess.
To get from one end of Alaska to another.
To get from one end of Alaska to another.
Iditarod comes. From the athabascan word haiditarod meaning "far distant place".
The Iditarod Trail was a trail used to transport goods that ran from Seward, passed through Iditarod, then ended in Nome. Iditarod was named after the Iditarod River. In the early 1900s, it saw a boom due to gold mining. After the gold was exhausted, the town became a ghost town.
To get from one end of Alaska to another.
they maned the iditarod after a ghost town the race route passes on the northern route, which they run in odd years, rather they run the southern route in even years.