Stark County GOP officials enthusiastically back President Donald Trump changing the name of North America's tallest mountain back to Mount McKinley.

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley. It’s the latest chapter in a long struggle over what the mountain should be called.

In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and preference of many Alaskans.

Among the roughly 200 executive orders President Donald Trump is expected to sign during his first day in office is a declaration to restore the name of the 25th president, William McKinley, to an Alaska mountain.

Denali Denali (21,310 ft.), located in Alaska’s Denali National Park, the highest peak in North America and a member of the iconic Seven Summits recently attrac

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law allowing name changes when the U.

The Alaskan mountain, now known as Mount Denali, will revert back to its previous name Mount McKinley, which was changed by former President Barack Obama. Obama changed the name to Denali in 2015 to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives as well as the preference of many Alaska residents.

The move is likely to face some pushback in Alaska, where the Alaska Native name has long been favored for the continent’s tallest mountain.

Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs."

"Denali" is an Athabascan word meaning "the high ... it over opposition from lawmakers in McKinley's home state of Ohio. The mountain stands at 20,310 feet. Various tribes of Athabascan people ...

The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of Athabascan tribes in Interior Alaska, spent years advocating for the peak to be recognized as Denali. McKinley, a Republican native of Ohio who was ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he'd