America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

Following President Donald Trump's move to change the name of the tallest mountain in North America to Mount McKinley, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has once again introduced a measure to ...

Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to this great empire, I have decided to compromise. Mount McKinley will now be called ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Reader support makes our work possible. Donate today to keep our site free. Denali is a Koyukon ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.

In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.