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 ...

The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North ...

I have rescinded my executive order renaming Mount McKinley, Mount McKinley. Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal ... North America’s highest peak, McKinley (6,190m) is located within the Alaska Range in Denali National Park. It was first summited ...

Finally, to top it all off, there was the Alaskaland Circus. For $7.95, roughly $65 in 2025, an entire mob of ice cream-mad ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders in his second term was reverting the name of Alaska's highest peak, Denali, to Mount McKinley. But there's already a Mount McKinley of sorts ...

As one of his first acts in office, President Trump ordered that the mountain be renamed Mount McKinley in January ... It seemed she wasn’t going to Alaska at all this summer.