What date does Carlsbad Caverns use?

May 14, 1930 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Carlsbad Caverns's National Park birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. 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 Carlsbad Cave National Monument (1923-10-25) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

National Park coordinate

Carlsbad Caverns's National Park Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

Date established as National Park: May 14, 1930

Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.

How the card is assigned

Carlsbad Caverns National Park (New Mexico) became a National Park on May 14, 1930. Card Blueprints uses May 14 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1930 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-diamonds.

Parks that share May 14

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

Other parks on the 5 of Diamonds

Big Bend — 5 of Diamonds

Carlsbad Caverns on the record

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a national park of the United States in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center. The park entrance is located on US Highway 62/180, approximately 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The park has two entries on the National Register of Historic Places: The Caverns Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District. Approximately two-thirds of the park has been set aside as a wilderness area, helping to ensure that no future changes will be made to the habitat. Carlsbad Caverns includes a large limestone chamber, named simply the Big Room, which is almost 4,000 ft (1,220 m) long, 625 ft (191 m) wide, and 255 ft (78 m) high at its highest point. The Big Room is the largest chamber in North America and the 32nd largest in the world. Carlsbad Caverns was established as a national park in 1930 and was recognized as a World Heritage Site in 1995. According to the online publication The Travel, it is renowned globally for being "one of the most accessible and best-preserved cave complexes in the world".

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Carlsbad Caverns 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 Carlsbad Caverns use?: May 14, 1930 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is Carlsbad Caverns's National Park birth card?: The 5 of Diamonds. 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 Carlsbad Cave National Monument (1923-10-25) 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 Carlsbad Caverns National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.