Arches's National Park Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Arches National Park (Utah) became a National Park on November 12, 1971. Card Blueprints uses November 12 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1971 is unused.

Coordinate: the 8 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/8-of-clubs.

Parks that share November 12

No other current National Park shares this month and day on the Wikipedia list.

Other parks on the 8 of Clubs

• Saguaro — 8 of Clubs

Arches on the record

Arches National Park is a national park of the United States in eastern Utah. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch, which constitute the highest density of natural arches in the world. It also contains a variety of other unique geological resources and formations. The national park lies above an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area. The park consists of 310.31 km2 (76,680 acres; 119.81 sq mi) of high desert located on the Colorado Plateau. The highest elevation in the park is 5,653 ft (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte, and the lowest elevation is 4,085 ft (1,245 m) at the visitor center. The park receives an average of less than 10 in (250 mm) of rain annually. Administered by the National Park Service, the area was originally designated a national monument on April 12, 1929 before being redesignated a national park on November 12, 1971. The park received more than 1.8 million visitors in 2021. This has declined in recent years with visitor numbers in 2024 being just under 1.5 million.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Arches 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 Arches use?

November 12, 1971 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Arches's National Park birth card?

The 8 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 Arches National Monument (1929-04-12) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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