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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] [7] federally designated as Mount McKinley, [8] [9] is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.
Denali National Park and Preserve is located in the central area of the Alaska Range, a mountain chain extending 600 miles (970 km) across Alaska. Its best-known geologic feature is Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley. Its elevation of 20,310 ft (6,190.5 m) makes it the highest mountain in North America.
But as of Saturday Google Maps and its search engine still directed users to Denali when searching for Mount McKinley in Alaska, the highest point in the US.
In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.
Over the decades, people in Alaska have called it both Denali and Mount McKinley, said Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, an associate professor of Alaska Native studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage.