Rising tall against the endless tundra and boreal forests below, the highest peak in North America dominates the central ...

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law ...

Denali National Park is officially renaming the mountain Mount McKinley, reversing the 2015 decision to restore the ...

In 1980 Mount McKinley National Park was renamed Denali National Park and Preserve and expanded from two million acres to six million. Sheldon Mountain House is one of several private inholdings ...

Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali. In 1939, Park Service ...

For what it’s worth, the Alaskan delegation prefers the “Denali” name: In 1975 the Alaska Geographic Names Board changed Mount McKinley to Denali and, at former Gov. Jay Hammond’s request ...

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The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest mountain in North America, will once again be called Mount McKinley. The name of the mountain has been the subject ...

Indigenous Koyukon Athabascans called North America’s highest mountain Denali, meaning “The High One.” However, in the late 1800s, a prospector named it Mount McKinley to honor then ...