Lawmakers reopen the Denali-McKinley clash after a decade of calm.
Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...
Q: I was told that Mount Rogers in Grayson County was once a volcano. I would like to know if there is anything to it. Also, how did Buffalo Mountain get its unique shape? I relocated here to Roanoke ...
View from the overlook on Kuwohi of the mountain peaks and ridges of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Getty Images It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by ...
The federal government is considering renaming Kit Carson Mountain, a ridge with multiple fourteeners in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. During a recent update for the Colorado ...
It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous peoples for centuries. But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally ...
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is one of the most unspoiled natural refuges in Texas, with a surprising variety of ...
Changing the names of landmarks in our country has become complex and controversial. Some of the landmarks may have been named after individuals or events associated with discrimination, racism or ...