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 ...

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 ...

ALASKA is both huge and almost deserted. Over twice the size of the next largest US state, Texas, and with a population density of just over ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

Railbookers has an 11-day train itinerary called "Grand Alaska Adventure with Alaska Railroad Southbound." The journey includes stops at two state parks: Kenai Fjords National Park and Denali ...

Many visitors wind up playing hide-and-seek with Mount McKinley, located in the heart of Denali National Park, nearly 200 miles north of Anchorage. The mountain is elusive to visitors partly because ...

Similar to Fort Liberty, Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office returning Denali, North America’s highest mountain, to its former name, Mount McKinley. Lawmakers ...

The order — titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” — also reversed President Barack Obama’s 2015 executive order renaming Alaska’s Mount McKinley, the nation’s ...