Kobuk Valley's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Kobuk Valley National Park (Alaska) became a National Park on December 2, 1980. Card Blueprints uses December 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-diamonds.

December 2 Alaska cluster

Kobuk Valley is one of seven current Alaska National Parks established as parks on December 2, 1980 (ANILCA), with Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Lake Clark, Wrangell–St. Elias. Denali is not in this cluster: its National Park date remains February 26, 1917.

Parks that share December 2

• Gates of the Arctic — December 2, 1980
• Glacier Bay — December 2, 1980
• Katmai — December 2, 1980
• Kenai Fjords — December 2, 1980
• Lake Clark — December 2, 1980
• Wrangell–St. Elias — December 2, 1980

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Glacier Bay — 3 of Diamonds
• Katmai — 3 of Diamonds
• Kenai Fjords — 3 of Diamonds
• Lake Clark — 3 of Diamonds
• Wrangell–St. Elias — 3 of Diamonds
• Gateway Arch — 3 of Diamonds

Kobuk Valley on the record

Kobuk Valley National Park is a national park of the United States in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska, located about 25 miles (40 km) north of the Arctic Circle. The park was designated in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to preserve the 100 ft (30 m) high Great Kobuk Sand Dunes and the surrounding area which includes caribou migration routes. Park visitors must bring all their own gear for backcountry camping, hiking, backpacking, boating, and dog sledding. No designated trails or roads exist in the park, which at 1,750,716 acres (2,735.5 sq mi; 7,084.9 km2), is slightly larger than the state of Delaware. Kobuk Valley is one of eight national parks in Alaska, the state with the second most national parks, surpassed only by California which has nine. The park is managed by the National Park Service. Since no roads lead into the park, visitors arrive via chartered air taxi from Nome, Bettles, or Kotzebue. Flights are available year-round, but are weather-dependent. The park is one of the least-visited American national parks, along with others inaccessible by road, including the neighboring Gates of the Arctic, Isle Royale in the middle of Lake Superior, the Dry Tortugas at the end of the Florida Keys, as well as Katmai and Lake Clark in southern Alaska.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kobuk Valley 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 Kobuk Valley use?

December 2, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Kobuk Valley's National Park birth card?

The 3 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 Kobuk Valley National Monument (1978-12-01) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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