Topline. 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 ...

President Trump is moving to change the name of Alaska’s tallest peak back to McKinley. Some 95% of respondents to our question want him to back off.

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. By The Associated Press • Published January 20, 2025 ...

Most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired ...

Another McKinley fan Denali is seen from the Petersville area on Oct. 23, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) Trump first floated the idea of renaming Denali as Mount McKinley in a White ...

Some groups in Alaska say they will continue to refer to the country's highest mountain as Denali, despite an executive order changing the name to Mount McKinley.

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount ...

After decades of controversy, the name of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, has been changed back to its original native Alaskan, Denali. The 20,237ft (6,168m) peak was named ...

Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska, is seen in 2011. President Barack Obama on Sunday said he's changing the name of this, the tallest mountain in North America, to Denali.

Trump has since returned to this theme, claiming in a speech in January 2025: "McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president. They took his name off Mount McKinley. That's what they do to people." ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska’s senior senator has once again introduced legislation to rename Mount McKinley, Denali. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in an interview Tuesday that Denali might not be the ...

Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska, is seen in 2011. President Barack Obama on Sunday said he's changing the name of this, the tallest mountain in North America, to Denali.