Alaskans are responding after President Donald Trump changed the name of North America's tallest peak from Denali back to ...

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 ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest ...

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. Throughout ...

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 recognized ...

The president made the name change through one of dozens of executive orders he signed on Monday. Former President Barack ...

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 ...