Mosquito Lake is not the best name to attract tourists to our beautiful lake and state park, but if we’re going to consider changing it, surely there are better options than Donald J. Trump State Park.

Love Trump or hate him, it’s hard to dispute that naming the nearby state park after the 45th president will serve to do little but politically divide the region even more than it already is.

Freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik, a Republican who represents parts of Trumbull County including Mosquito Lake State Park, along with Niles, Girard and Weathersfield, wants to rename the state park after Trump.

Loychik sent a note last week to fellow House members and their staffs announcing his plan to soon introduce legislation to change the name of Mosquito Lake State Park to “Donald J. Trump State Park.”

Loychik said he is seeking co-sponsors for the bill and gave members until Friday to contact his office.

His reasoning? Loychik said the bill would help to “honor the hard work that President Trump did for Ohio and the nation while he was in the White House.”

The proposal prompted clear and swift outcry from the state legislator who also represents part of the park, Rep. Michael J. O’Brien, D-Warren, and also from residents who opposed the idea.

O’Brien quickly tossed out other suggested names for the park. Among those he pitched, we particularly like the idea of naming the lake after Niles resident, former President William McKinley. We especially like this suggestion considering that it wasn’t too long ago that McKinley lost his namesake in Mount McKinley. In a nod to Alaska’s native population, former President Barack Obama in 2015 renamed the country’s tallest mountain from Mount McKinley to Denali, its name in the indigenous Athabascan language.

Another suggested park name being bantered about came this week from Hubbard resident Antonette Scharsu. In response to Loychik’s proposal, Scharsu started a petition to change the park’s name to Harriet Taylor Upton State Park.

Scharsu points out that Taylor Upton was a Warren resident who worked for women’s rights and helping others for positive changes.

Bravo to both suggestions!

Naming the local state park after William McKinley or Harriet Taylor Upton are efforts we would get behind. We suspect either would garner support and improve the park’s marketability for tourism and visitors.

But naming the park after Donald Trump is not an effort we would support.