What date does New River Gorge use?

December 27, 2020 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is New River Gorge'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 New River Gorge National River (1978-11-10) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

National Park coordinate

New River Gorge's National Park Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

Date established as National Park: December 27, 2020

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

How the card is assigned

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (West Virginia) became a National Park on December 27, 2020. Card Blueprints uses December 27 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 2020 is unused.

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

Parks that share December 27

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

Other parks on the 4 of Hearts

American Samoa — 4 of Hearts
Death Valley — 4 of Hearts
Joshua Tree — 4 of Hearts

New River Gorge on the record

The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve designed to protect and maintain the New River Gorge in southern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains. Established in 1978 as a national river and redesignated in 2020, the park and preserve stretches for 53 miles (85 km) from just downstream of Hinton to Hawks Nest State Park near Ansted. The park is rich in cultural and natural history and offers an abundance of scenic and recreational opportunities. New River Gorge has some of the country's best whitewater rafting, mainly from the Cunard put-in to the Fayette Station take-out, and is also one of the most popular climbing areas on the East Coast. The New River itself originates in North Carolina, flowing north through Virginia into the West Virginia mountains to the Kanawha River which continues to the Ohio River.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (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 New River Gorge use?: December 27, 2020 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is New River Gorge'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 New River Gorge National River (1978-11-10) 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 New River Gorge National Park and Preserve) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.