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Yukon Quest
Updated daily throughout the Yukon Quest during the morning local news reports

Tune in for daily coverage of the 2025 Yukon Quest starting with a pre-race analysis, Friday, January 31st. Listen for updates from the KUAC Trail reporters after the local news.

Hear all the fascinating ‘tales from the trail’ with KUAC’s coverage of the 42nd Yukon Quest. Thanks to our lead sponsor Simard Automotive, Kinross/Fort Knox, Golden Heart Emergency Physicians, Sipping Streams Tea Company, Shannon and Wilson, Auto Trim Design Alaska and Warbelow's Air for their generous support of Quest coverage on KUAC FM!

  • All of the teams running the 550 miles to Tok are now out on the Yukon River ice. Another 200-miler scratched early yesterday, and the last finisher in that division came in.
  • Yukon Quest 200 finishes, eight teams head to Circle for the 550
    There is a winner in the Yukon Quest Alaska 200-mile race, and one of the mushers in that division has scratched – the rest will likely finish today in Central. Everyone in the race is over the dreaded Rosebud and Eagle Summits, and the first mushers in the 550-mile event hit the ice of the Yukon River today.
  • Snowy trail good for three races, bad on Steese Highway for handlers
    27 Yukon Quest teams left Fairbanks yesterday. The leaders have made their way into the third checkpoint of the 550-mile race, but their handlers are stalled on the Steese Highway as an avalanche closed the road Saturday.
  • Meet the Mushers, 2025
    The Yukon Quest Alaska starts Saturday in Fairbanks with three sled-dog races – the 80-mile Fun Run, the 200-mile middle-distance event and the big 550-mile course to Tok. Race officials held a “Meet the Mushers” get-together Thursday night, and each racer’s name was drawn to determine the starting order for their event.
  • Dan Bross and Lex Treinen talk about the 2023 race.
  • Third through 8th place Quest 550 racers crossed the finish line in Fairbanks Thursday.
  • Brent Sass notched his 5th Yukon Quest victory, and Amanda Otto made a late race push to nab 2nd place.
  • Brent Sass has a big lead while mushing the final 50 some miles of trail from Nenana to Fairbanks.
  • The winding trail along Birch Creek between Circle and Central is known for its' extreme cold and monotony.