Jan 21, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 28, 2025 · It took 40 years to rename Denali from the name established in the late 19th century, Mount McKinley. The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975 , but the Board on Geographic Names didn ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Ahead of his inauguration on Monday, it was revealed that Trump would sign an order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley (and rename the Gulf of Mexico).

Denali seen from Byers Lake the morning after the rename. On August 30, 2015, Sally Jewell announced that the mountain would be renamed Denali, under authority of federal law which permits her as Secretary of the Interior to name geographic features if the Board on Geographic Names does not act within a "reasonable" period of time. In media ...

3 days ago · When Obama announced the renaming, his administration released a statement that noted McKinley “never set foot in Alaska,” and the peak that rises some 20,000 feet above sea level was known by ...

Jan 21, 2025 · As part of a flurry of executive orders on President Trump's first day in office, the newly inaugurated president signed orders calling for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and...

Dec 22, 2024 · U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was...

Jan 20, 2025 · The national park area surrounding Mount McKinley shall retain the name Denali National Park and Preserve. ... take all appropriate actions to rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the...

Jan 20, 2025 · President Trump announced on Monday that he would sign an executive order renaming the tallest mountain in North America as Mount McKinley, undoing a 2015 decision that had restored the peak’s...