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

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

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

President Donald Trump says he plans to rename North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley ...

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.

During his inuagural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley.

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 ...

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 ). Why does renaming an Alaskan peak rise to the ...

Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for ... announced “we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it ...

Denali. The decision appears to reflect Mr. Trump’s increasingly public admiration for William McKinley, the 25th president. In the final months of the campaign, Mr. Trump invoked Mr. McKinley ...

He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley ... was rechristened with its traditional name, Denali. Trump wants to make it Mount McKinley again. That has set off precisely the ...