heads at glacier terminus in Mount Mckinley National Park, flows N to Mckinley River at W end of Eagle Gorge, 11 mi. W of Wonder Lake, Tanana Low.
Named by prospectors for John Mcleod a member of Judge James Wickersham!s Mckinley Expedition in 1903. The Circle philologer, the interpreter for Da-yin-num, the medicine man of too-whun-na. He is a hunter, a canoeman, a trapper who knows the wilderness life like his foster brothers, th e (Tena) Indians. (From Wickersham!s notes printed in the Fairbanks News-Miner July 17, 1963). Name reported as Mccloud by S. R. Capps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1925.