Which national park is named after the highest mountain in North America?

Which national park is named after the highest mountain in North America? Denali National Park is named after Denali, the highest mountain in North America.

Denali rises to 20,310 feet in Alaska’s central Alaska Range and is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The mountain’s name comes from the Koyukon language and is commonly translated as “the tall one” or “the high one.” The park’s official name includes the preserve, although quizzes often shorten it to Denali National Park.

The mountain was federally called Mount McKinley for much of the 20th century, after President William McKinley. In 2015, the federal government restored the name Denali, which Alaska had adopted officially in 1975. The naming history can therefore appear differently in older books and maps.

Denali is also notable for its enormous vertical relief: it rises roughly 18,000 feet from its surrounding lowlands to the summit. The park protects glaciers, tundra, taiga, and wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, and Dall sheep.