… Mount McKinley — the name given a century ago in honor of …

Charles Sheldon and Belmore Browne, who were the strongest advocates for the formation of the park, probably would have been pleased to hear about the 2015 decision by the Secretary of the Interior to restore the name “Denali” to North America’s highest peak.On January 13th, 1916, hunter-naturalist Charles Sheldon made an appeal to Tho… "Great insult to Ohio. Now officially called Denali, the peak returns to its the original name from … The controversy started before the establishment of the park and has continued into the present. That may be one reason President Obama waited until now to rename America's tallest mountain. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years," Trump tweeted in December 2015.

The 20,320-foot behemoth that anchors Denali National Park was named for the former president in 1896, shortly after President William McKinley was nominated as a candidate for office. President Obama is renaming Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America. Some Ohio politicians, indignant that President Obama would rename Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve to Mount Denali, want President Trump to change it back. "President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. I will change … The prominent peak — visible from all corners of the state’s largest city of Anchorage — was officially named in 1917 when McKinley National Park was formed and named to memorialize President William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901. Alaska asked the federal government to change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali in 1975. Never mind that President William McKinley never set foot in Alaska and that Alaskans were all for the name change.