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

Some groups in Alaska say they will continue to refer to the country's highest mountain as Denali, despite an executive order ...

President Trump is moving to change the name of Alaska’s tallest peak back to McKinley. Some 95% of respondents to our ...

North America’s tallest peak is renamed Mt. McKinley, but many Alaskans favor a name that spans deep into history.

President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.

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

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...