The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.

Denali was renamed in 2015 by former President Barack Obama’s Department of the Interior, honoring the peak’s name in Native American cultures within Alaska and at the request of numerous ...

President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday to revert the name of the nation’s tallest mountain back to Mt. McKinley, reprising his 2016 campaign promise to undo former President Barack Obama ...

The peak was officially known as Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, when then-President Barack Obama renamed it Denali, as the mountain was known by indigenous Alaskans.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to return the old name of America’s tallest mountain, nine years after then-President Barack Obama changed it in honor of Alaska’s native community. The ...

Denali (L), formerly known as Mount McKinley, can be seen from Air Force One as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Anchorage, Alaska August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo Purchase ...

President Donald Trump said the Gulf of Mexico will be called the Gulf of America, while the Denali mountain peak will revert to its former name, Mount McKinley.

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama completed the change to the name Denali to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and acknowledge the preference of many Alaska residents.

President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday to revert the name of the nation’s tallest mountain back to Mt. McKinley, reprising his 2016 campaign promise to undo former President Barack Obama ...

Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle.

Obama instead named the peak Mount Denali to improve relations with Native Americans, and did so after decades of attempts to rename the mountain, according to the Washington Post.