National Park coordinate
Capitol Reef's National Park Birth Card: The King of Hearts
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Capitol Reef National Park (Utah) became a National Park on December 18, 1971. Card Blueprints uses December 18 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1971 is unused.
Coordinate: the King of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/king-of-hearts.
Parks that share December 18
No other current National Park shares this month and day on the Wikipedia list.
Other parks on the King of Hearts
- Great Sand Dunes — King of Hearts
Capitol Reef on the record
Capitol Reef National Park is a national park of the United States in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (100 km) long on its north–south axis and just 6 miles (10 km) wide on its east-west axis, on average. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) of desert landscape and is open all year, with May through September receiving the most visitors. Partially in Wayne County, Utah, the area was originally named "Wayne Wonderland" in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Capitol Reef National Park was designated a national monument on August 2, 1937, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public. Road access was improved in 1962 with the construction of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon. The majority of the nearly 100-mile-long (160-kilometer) up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold—a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell—is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River. The park was named for its whitish Navajo Sandstone cliffs with dome formations—similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings—that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. Locally, reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Capitol Reef 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 Capitol Reef use?
- December 18, 1971 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Capitol Reef's National Park birth card?
- The King of Hearts. 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 Capitol Reef National Monument (1937-08-02) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.
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Sources: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of national parks of the United States, column “Date established as park”, retrieved 2026-09-06; article Capitol Reef National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.