If you're taking the northern route through Amarillo, Goodnight is about halfway. If you're taking the southern route through Lubbock, Shallowater is about halfway.
If you take the southern route, I recommend Jackson, Mississippi as your halfway point. If you take the northern route, I recommend Memphis, Tennessee as your halfway point.
There are 26 checkpoints on each route in the Iditarod. The southern route is taken on odd numbered years(such as this year,2013) and the northern route is taken on even numbered years. I'm not able to give the exact information of where each checkpoint is on both northern and southern routes, but somewhere else on wikianswers(this website).
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.
If traveling by road in a northern route (I76 to I80) then Chicago would be the closest large city at the halfway mark. It taking the southern route (to avoid Chicago and tolls) (I79 to I70 to I465 to I74 to I80) then Bloomington, Il would closest to the halfway mark.
Jackson, Tennessee, if you take a slightly more northern route, or Tuscaloosa, Alabama (just past Birmingham), if you take a slightly more southern route.
There are 26 checkpoints in the Northern route and 29 checkpoints in the Southern route!
In even years, the Iditarod follows the Northern route. The halfway point is between Cripple and Ruby, closer to Ruby.
That depends on your route. Hico, Texas, is halfway along the route taking US-67 and US-281, which is the route recommended by Google Maps.
No, Denton is a suburb of Dallas and is not on the route. Vernon, TX is the halfway point.
Monroe, Michigan is almost exactly the halfway point.
Southern Scenic Route was created on 1988-11-06.