The park that contains the mountain is still called Denali National Park and Preserve, according to the order. Denali had officially been named Mount McKinley in the eyes of the government since ...
Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali. In 1939, Park Service ...
is in Denali National Park and Preserve. A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska. The name was formally recognized ...