Guadalupe Mountains's National Park Birth Card: The 7 of Hearts

How the card is assigned

Guadalupe Mountains National Park (Texas) became a National Park on September 30, 1972. Card Blueprints uses September 30 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1972 is unused.

Coordinate: the 7 of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/7-of-hearts.

Parks that share September 30

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

Other parks on the 7 of Hearts

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Guadalupe Mountains on the record

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the Guadalupe Mountains, east of El Paso, Texas. The mountain range includes Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,751 feet (2,667 m), and El Capitan used as a landmark by travelers on the route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line. The ruins of a stagecoach station stand near the Pine Springs visitor center. The restored Frijole Ranch contains a small museum of local history and is the trailhead for Smith Spring. The park covers 86,367 acres (134.9 sq mi; 349.5 km2) in the same mountain range as Carlsbad Caverns National Park, about 25 miles (40 km) to the north in New Mexico. The Guadalupe Peak Trail winds through pinyon pine and Douglas-fir forests as it ascends over 3,000 feet (910 m) to the summit of Guadalupe Peak, with views of El Capitan and the Chihuahuan Desert. The McKittrick Canyon trail leads to a stone cabin built in the early 1930s as the vacation home of Wallace Pratt, a petroleum geologist who donated the land. Dog Canyon, on the northern park boundary at the Texas-New Mexico State line, is accessed via Carlsbad, New Mexico or Dell City, Texas. Camping is available at the Pine Springs campground and at Dog Canyon. A public corral for livestock is available by reservation. The Gypsum sand dunes lie on the west side of the park near Dell City. A rough four-wheel drive road leads to the Williams Ranch.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe Mountains use?

September 30, 1972 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Guadalupe Mountains's National Park birth card?

The 7 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 Guadalupe Mountains National Park (authorized) (1966-10-15) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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