What date does Joshua Tree use?

October 31, 1994 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Joshua Tree's National Park birth card?

The 4 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 Joshua Tree National Monument (1936-08-10) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

National Park coordinate

Joshua Tree's National Park Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

Date established as National Park: October 31, 1994

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

How the card is assigned

Joshua Tree National Park (California) became a National Park on October 31, 1994. Card Blueprints uses October 31 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1994 is unused.

Coordinate: the 4 of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/4-of-hearts.

Parks that share October 31

American Samoa — October 31, 1988
Death Valley — October 31, 1994

Other parks on the 4 of Hearts

American Samoa — 4 of Hearts
Death Valley — 4 of Hearts
New River Gorge — 4 of Hearts

Joshua Tree on the record

Joshua Tree National Park is a US National Park located in southeastern California, straddling north-central Riverside County and part of southern San Bernardino County. Named after the endemic Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), found in the park and surrounding areas, Joshua Tree is situated some 130 miles (211 km) east of the city of Los Angeles and roughly 78 mi (125 km) east of the city of San Bernardino. Among some of the closest cities to the park are Indio, Palm Desert, and Palm Springs. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act. Encompassing a total area of 795,156 acres (1,242.4 sq mi; 3,217.9 km2)—slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island—the park features 429,690 acres (671.4 sq mi; 1,738.9 km2) of designated wilderness. The park encompasses portions of two deserts, each a unique ecosystem with characteristics determined primarily by elevation—the higher Mojave Desert and the lower-lying Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains line the park's southwest edge.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Joshua Tree 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 Joshua Tree use?: October 31, 1994 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is Joshua Tree's National Park birth card?: The 4 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 Joshua Tree National Monument (1936-08-10) 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 Joshua Tree National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.