Effective Saturday, February 15, 2025, the superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve has authorized opening the Denali Park Road (the Park Road) to the Mountain Vista Rest Area (mile marker 12) for travel by private vehicles and commercial vehicles with permits.

Members of the Alaskan House of Representatives passed a bi-partisan resolution urging Trump to preserve the name Denali for North America's highest peak.

The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits,

Permitting the Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve; giving the state of Alaska control over fish and wildlife, including within National Park System units; and discarding the National Park Service's practice of managing lands "eligible" for wilderness as official wilderness are among the requests Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.