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

The move is likely to face some pushback in Alaska, where the Alaska Native name has long been favored for the continent’s ...

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

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.

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska ...

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 ...

Trump's decision is being met with resistance, as many Alaska lawmakers, including its two Republican Senators, have voiced ...

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

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

William McKinley, to an Alaska mountain. Ahead of his inauguration on Monday, it was revealed that Trump would sign an order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley (and rename the Gulf of Mexico).

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