If the Klondike Dog Derby had gone as planned for 2025, we could have seen thirty teams of sled dogs and their mushers race ...

EXCELSIOR, Minn. — Lack of snow has prompted the Lake Minnetonka Klondike Dog Derby to be canceled this year, the organizers announced in a press release Thursday. "Given current conditions and ...

EXCELSIOR, Minn. (FOX 9) - This year's Lake Minnetonka Klondike Dog Derby has officially been canceled. Organizers of the popular Lake Minnetonka sled dog race said Wednesday the unseasonably warm ...

EXCELSIOR, Minn. — Bethany Hway is the Race Director of the Lake Minnetonka Klondike Dog Derby. Sled dog racing is a sport she was born into. "I rode a sled before I learned how to ride a bike ...

James Wheeler of Fairbanks, Alaska, took second place at the 2020 Klondike Dog Derby in Excelsior. The 2024 race has been cancelled. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Minneapolis Star Tribune/The Minnesota ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- The dog sled racing season rolls on this weekend after the Beargrease race up north earlier this week. Mushers from around the continent have made their way to the Twin ...

EXCELSIOR, Minn. — Bethany Hway is the Founder and Race Director of the Lake Minnetonka Klondike Dog Derby. She knows a thing or two about the sport. "I rode a sled before I learned how to ride ...

The Klondike Dog Derby founders announced the race in April 2019, bringing a sled dog race back to Lake Minnetonka after 50 years. The last race was held in the area in the 1970s.

Lake Minnetonka will be seeing its first sled dog race since the 1970s next February. The city of Excelsior is likely to host the inaugural Lake Minnetonka Klondike Dog Derby Feb. 8 and 9, 2020.

The Klondike Derby commemorates the Iditarod Dog Sled race, but the sleds are pulled by Boy Scouts. For three weeks, Boy Scouts from three different districts compete in the Klondike Derby at the ...

When it takes place, the event is a 40-mile professional dog sled race that starts on Lake Minnetonka and ends in Excelsior. While the race is canceled, the organizers plan on holding the Cutest ...