President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...
Mount McKinley is now Denali; Denali National Park should be renamed McKinley National Park. You could certainly argue that McKinley deserves a mountain, and a good one. Most of the sturm und ...
The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North ...
Denali National Park” in 1916, referencing a name bestowed to the mountain by native people. The federal government ultimately anointed the towering peak in the Alaska Range “Mt. McKinley ...
The iconic 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain, snow-capped and dotted with glaciers, is in Denali National Park and Preserve. A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after ...
According to the National Park Service, a prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” for William McKinley, who was elected president that year. McKinley had never been to Alaska.