According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by ...

Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump's executive order that the name revert to ...

William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs.” The park that contains the mountain is still called Denali National Park and Preserve, according to the order.

The name “Denali” is derived from the Koyukon name ... name “Mount McKinley,” after the then-president-elect, William McKinley. In an account of his summer in Alaska published in ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be ...

The 20,310-foot peak had been known as Denali until 1896, when a gold prospector unofficially named the peak after William McKinley in support of the then-presidential candidate. Even though ...

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali ...

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali ...

“Denali respects the Indigenous people that ... “Historical analysis confirms that William McKinley is the wrong public figure for Alaskans to commemorate,” he said. McKinley served as ...

“Denali respects the Indigenous people that ... Trump said he issued the order to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where ...