The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal ... North America’s highest peak, McKinley (6,190m) is located within the Alaska Range in Denali National Park. It was first summited ...

I have rescinded my executive order renaming Mount McKinley, Mount McKinley. Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to ...