The George Parks Highway and Alaska Railroad traverse the eastern base of this mountain as each passes through the Nenana River Gorge.

[1] Mount Healy is a nine-mile-long, east–west trending ridge system of mostly loose rock with jagged peaks and spires.

Vegetation ranges from boreal forest at the base all the way up to barren alpine ridges and snowfields at the top.

[4] This mountain and the town are named after John J. Healy (1840–1908), manager of the North American Trading and Transportation Company.

This geographical feature's name was reported in 1921 by Mabry Abbey on his survey map of the boundaries of Mount McKinley National Park.