And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali ... The 1967 tragedy led Denali National Park to modify climbing protocols, including ...

The nine-member Mountaineering Club of Alaska expedition, led by Bill Babcock, had set out on foot from Wonder Lake, at the end of the Denali National Park road, more than three weeks before.

In winter, the peaks are coated ... of the Alaskan Range of mountains in Denali National Park and Preserve. Not only that, ...

While visiting Denali National Park, be sure to check out the Princess Treehouse at the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge. Built by Pete Nelson of Animal Planet's "Treehouse Masters," the ...

March 2, 2025 (San Diego) -- Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount McKinley. I talked about this in one of the ...

The National Park Service, the Sierra Club ... In Alaska, he discarded local wishes favoring Denali to honor McKinley, a president elected with aid of late 19th century robber barons. How might Trump ...

I close out a series of winter articles with this account of a Baxter State Park ski trek of nearly 20 miles, hauling a home-rigged pulk (pull) sled into the west-lying ponds region of the Park.