Wasilla, Alaska City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Wasilla, Alaska Travel Guide has been your connection to Wasilla's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
The Iditarod
 The Iditarod Race is perhaps the most famous Alaska event, and the Wasilla area is the perfect place to stay for the Iditarod, as the town is just 45 minutes from Anchorage. The Iditarod travels over 1,150 miles of some of the most extreme and beautiful terrain in Alaska. The sled drivers cross over steep mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests and windswept coastlines. The Iditarod Race travels from Anchorage to Nome. Each Iditarod team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher covers over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days.
The Iditarod Race is often referred to as the “Last Great Race on Earth.” It has received highest acclaim throughout the world. Each year, German, Spanish, British, Japanese and American film crews come to Anchorage to cover this Alaska event.
The Iditarod Trail was originally a mail and supply route from the coastal towns of Seward and Knik to the interior mining camps at Flat, Ophir, Ruby and beyond to the west coast communities of Unalakleet, Elim, Golovin, White Mountain and Nome. As the mail and supplies went in, gold came out. This was all done by dog sled. In 1925, the Iditarod Trail saved many lives in epidemic-stricken Nome, when dog mushers brought in powerful diphtheria fighting serums. The Iditarod is a commemoration of those days.
No matter when you plan your bed and breakfast vacation in Alaska, there is bound to be an exciting Alaska event happening nearby.
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