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View of the mountain, centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali".
Denali (/ d ə ˈ n ɑː l i /; [5] [6] also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) [7] is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.
The United States government formally adopted the name Mount McKinley after President Wilson signed the bill creating Mount McKinley National Park into effect in 1917. [10] In 1980, Mount McKinley National Park was combined with Denali National Monument, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act named the combined unit the Denali ...
Denali National Park's most famous peak is Denali, formerly Mount McKinley, and its 20,310-foot summit has attracted mountaineers from all over the world for decades. Denali means "high" or "tall ...
In other cases, such as the renaming of Mount McKinley in Alaska to Denali in 2016, the motivation was to create a more authentic and historically accurate name for a particular place.
Mount McKinley National Park was renamed Denali National Park and Preserve in 1980 (the eponymous mountain itself was renamed Denali by the state government in 1975, [1] but was not officially renamed Denali by the federal government until 2015 [2]) Barrow was renamed Utqiaġvik in 2016, after its original Iñupiaq name. [3]
Denali Park, formerly McKinley Park, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Denali Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census , the population of the CDP was 163, down from 185 at the 2010 census .
The effort to change the name was led by Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who first settled the mountain and consider it sacred. Clingmans Dome renamed Kuwohi in honor of Cherokee people who ...