Denali, William McKinley and Trump

who named it after then-presidential candidate McKinley. In 1916—before the area was named a national park—Charles Sheldon asked the Alaska Engineering Commission to call it “‘Mt Denali ...
A few said it’s more patriotic to have a national name ... Todd, Anchor Point Denali, because that heritage is in Alaska’s heart and soul. — Steve, Anchorage Mt. McKinley.
Alaska officials In 1980, Regula agreed to what he viewed as a compromise. Congress renamed the national park Denali National Park but kept the name of the mountain as Mount McKinley.
The four-time winner of the 1,000-mileIditarod Trail Sled Dog Race operates his kennel and mushing tourism business just 8 miles from Denali National ... William McKinley, to Mount McKinley ...
is in Denali National Park and Preserve. A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska. The name was formally ...
A common sentiment in Alaska is that while President Donald Trump has ordered the name of North America’s tallest peak to be changed from Denali ... of the change: “Mt. McKinley, as it was ...