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 ...

With a country this big, it’s no surprise you can find many beautiful mountains in the United States. Some of the most ...

In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story ...

March 2, 2025 (San Diego) -- Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer ... the people who came to Alaska to stay. When the boundaries of Mount McKinley were vastly enlarged ...

Why it's Lee Ferry and Vail Pass. But what if Trump gets involved? To some it's Lee Ferry. Others call it Lees Ferry. A primer on our geographical names ...

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

An episode of the animated PBS Kids show “Molly of Denali” co-written by Juneau resident and Alaska Native language expert X̱’unei Lance Twitchell won the award for Writing for a Preschool Animated ...

The future of a partially completed home built next to a creek in Glacier National Park in Montana remains uncertain, as a ...

LOS ANGELES — The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an ...

Google said last month it would also change the name of Mount McKinley, the nation’s highest peak, from Denali following Trump’s order. Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska ...