Kings Canyon's National Park Birth Card: The 6 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Kings Canyon National Park (California) became a National Park on March 4, 1940. Card Blueprints uses March 4 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1940 is unused.

Coordinate: the 6 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/6-of-spades.

Parks that share March 4

• Hot Springs — March 4, 1921

Other parks on the 6 of Spades

• Hot Springs — 6 of Spades

Kings Canyon on the record

Kings Canyon National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed on March 4, 1940. The park's namesake, Kings Canyon, is a rugged glacier-carved valley more than a mile (1,600 m) deep. Other natural features include multiple 14,000-foot (4,300 m) peaks, high mountain meadows, swift-flowing rivers, and some of the world's largest stands of giant sequoia trees. Kings Canyon is north of and contiguous with Sequoia National Park, and both parks are jointly administered by the National Park Service as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The majority of the 461,901-acre (186,925 ha) park, drained by the Middle and South Forks of the Kings River and many smaller streams, is designated wilderness. Tourist facilities are concentrated in two areas: Grant Grove, home to General Grant (the second largest tree in the world, measured by trunk volume) and Cedar Grove, located in the heart of Kings Canyon. Overnight hiking is required to access most of the park's backcountry, or high country, which for much of the year is covered in deep snow. The combined Pacific Crest Trail/John Muir Trail, a backpacking route, traverses the entire length of the park from north to south. General Grant National Park was initially created to protect a small area of giant sequoias from logging. Although John Muir's visits brought public attention to the huge wilderness area to the east, it took more than fifty years for the rest of Kings Canyon to be designated a national park. Environmental groups, park visitors and many local politicians wanted to see the area preserved; however, development interests wanted to build hydroelectric dams in the canyon.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kings Canyon 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 Kings Canyon use?

March 4, 1940 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Kings Canyon's National Park birth card?

The 6 of Spades. 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 General Grant National Park (1890-10-01) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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