Letter: Here’s something we could name after McKinley

By Dean Knapp

Updated: January 22, 2025 Published: January 22, 2025

The setting sun casts a warm glow on Denali as a person views the 20,310 foot mountain, the tallest in North America, from Point Woronzof in Anchorage on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN)

It’s Denali. It has been Denali for a thousand years. It will be Denali for the next thousand years.On the other hand, I would be quite happy for the Municipality of Anchorage landfill to be renamed the McKinley Landfill.

— Dean Knapp, Eagle River

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