When Does The Iditarod Start 2025 Dates. Watch up close the start of the 2025 iditarod: Today (june 29th, 2024), 24 mushers have submitted their entries for the 2025 iditarod trail sled dog race, scheduled to start in anchorage on saturday, march 1, 2025 with the official restart taking place the following day in willow.
Race day is saturday, march 1 and festivities begin at 10 a.m. Now the real competition beginsโฆ head north with salmon berry tours today to the official start of the 2025 iditarod!