Acadia's National Park Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Acadia National Park (Maine) became a National Park on February 26, 1919. Card Blueprints uses February 26 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1919 is unused.

Coordinate: the Queen of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/queen-of-clubs.

Parks that share February 26

• Denali — February 26, 1917
• Grand Canyon — February 26, 1919
• Grand Teton — February 26, 1929

Other parks on the Queen of Clubs

• Denali — Queen of Clubs
• Grand Canyon — Queen of Clubs
• Grand Teton — Queen of Clubs
• Canyonlands — Queen of Clubs

Acadia on the record

Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island, part of Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands. The park contains the tallest mountain on the Atlantic Coast of the United States (Cadillac Mountain), exposed granite domes, glacial erratics, U-shaped valleys, and cobble beaches. Its mountains, lakes, streams, wetlands, forests, meadows, and coastlines contribute to a diversity of plants and animals. Woven into this landscape is a historic carriage road system financed by John D. In total, it encompasses 49,075 acres (19,860 ha; 76.680 sq mi; 198.60 km2) as of 2017. Acadia has a rich human history, dating back more than 10,000 years ago with the Wabanaki people. The 17th century brought fur traders and other European explorers, while the 19th century saw an influx of summer visitors, then wealthy families. Many conservation-minded citizens, among them George B. Dorr (the "Father of Acadia National Park"), worked to establish this first U.S. national park east of the Mississippi River and the only one in the Northeastern United States. Acadia was initially designated Sieur de Monts National Monument by proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, then renamed and redesignated Lafayette National Park in 1919. The park was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Acadia National Park (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Acadia use?

February 26, 1919 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Acadia's National Park birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. NPS Park Anniversaries lists Sieur de Monts National Monument (1916-07-08) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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