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Photo: Alejandro Pena, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Runs from Wasilla to Nome and back in February. Snowmobile races are also held most weekends in winter.
The Iron Dog or Iron Dog Race, originally known as the Iron Dog Gold Rush Classic and between 2000 and 2009 for sponsorship reasons as the Tesoro Iron Dog, is an off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, USA. It normally starts on a Sunday in mid-February. At 2,031 miles (3,269 km), it is the longest high speed cross-country snowmachine race in the world. A record forty-two teams entered the 2008 event. In 2013 the total purse was US $210,500, with $50,000 awarded to the winners.