Great Smoky Mountains's National Park Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina, Tennessee) became a National Park on June 15, 1934. Card Blueprints uses June 15 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1934 is unused.

Coordinate: the 2 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/2-of-diamonds.

Parks that share June 15

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

Other parks on the 2 of Diamonds

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Great Smoky Mountains on the record

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains and part of the Appalachian temperate rainforest, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including Kuwohi, Mount Guyot, and Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. With over 11 million visitors in 2025, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States. The park encompasses 522,419 acres (816.28 sq mi; 211,415.47 ha; 2,114.15 km2), making it one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States. The main park entrances are located along U.S. Highway 441 (Newfound Gap Road) in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Cherokee, North Carolina, and also in Townsend, Tennessee. The park is internationally recognized for its mountains, waterfalls, biodiversity, and forests. In addition, the park preserves multiple historical structures that were part of communities occupied by early European-American settlers of the area. The park was chartered by the United States Congress in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin D.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Great Smoky Mountains 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 Great Smoky Mountains use?

June 15, 1934 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Great Smoky Mountains's National Park birth card?

The 2 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 Great Smoky Mountains National Park (authorized) (1926-05-22) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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