Effective Saturday, February 15, 2025, the superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve has authorized opening the ...

“Native Alaskans were calling it Denali for thousands of years before anybody else came here. In the climbing community, it’s almost universal—I almost never hear anybody call it McKinley.

Denali, or Mount Mckinley, represents a significant mountaineering challenge, which requires extensive climbing experience, preparation, technical skills, and a high-level of conditioning.

Denali is also pivotal to the climbing community. On average, about 1,000 eager climbers attempt to summit the mountain each year, traversing unforgiving Alaskan terrain and several sheer drops.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount ... the adventurous few who seek to climb it. What they're saying: Trump ...

Obama changed the name to Denali in 2015 to reflect the traditions ... that make it difficult for the adventurous few who seek to climb it.Trump previously suggested in 2016 that he might undo ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico and change the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.