Topline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has ...

I am 25 and I have never heard anyone call it Mt. Mckinley. It’s always been Denali. — R., Palmer. Le nom donné aux autochtones à cette majestueuse montagne. — Laurence, France.

Another McKinley fan Denali is seen from the Petersville area on Oct. 23, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) Trump first floated the idea of renaming Denali as Mount McKinley in a White ...

She added that when the federal government adopted Denali as the official naming in 2015, there was "confusion among travelers from outside [the state], as Mount McKinley was the widely known name ...

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. By The Associated Press • Published January 20, 2025 ...

Over the decades, people in Alaska have called it both Denali and Mount McKinley, said Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, an associate professor of Alaska Native studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Denali vs. Mount McKinley is a long controversy. The controversy over the mountain's name dates back to 1975 when the Alaska legislature passed a resolution asking the U.S. interior secretary to ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley. He also called for changing the name of the Gulf ...

President Barack Obama renamed Mt. McKinley in 2015 to Denali. Getty Images “This order honors President McKinley for giving his life for our great Nation and dutifully recognizes his historic ...

Denali is an Athabascan word meaning "the high one" or "the great one." A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak Mount McKinley after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska.

Mt. McKinley. They’ve used the Denali name while the mountain was called Mt. McKinley for 16 out of the 25 years that the Denali sub- brand has been in existence.

Denali: Why is Donald Trump renaming cherished Alaska peak ‘Mount McKinley’? The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest ...