Pinnacles's National Park Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Pinnacles National Park (California) became a National Park on January 10, 2013. Card Blueprints uses January 10 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 2013 is unused.

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

Parks that share January 10

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

Other parks on the 4 of Spades

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Pinnacles on the record

Pinnacles National Park is a national park of the United States protecting a mountainous area located east of the Salinas Valley in Central California, about five miles (8 km) east of Soledad and 80 miles (130 km) southeast of San Jose. The park's namesake pinnacles are the eroded leftovers of the western half of an extinct volcano that has moved 200 miles (320 km) from its original location on the San Andreas Fault, embedded in a portion of the California Pacific Coast Ranges. Pinnacles is managed by the National Park Service and the majority of the park is protected as wilderness. The national park is divided by the rock formations into East and West Divisions, connected only by foot trails. The east side has shade and water, while the west has high walls. The rock formations provide for spectacular pinnacles that attract rock climbers. The park features unusual talus caves that house at least 13 species of bats. Pinnacles is most often visited in spring or fall because of the intense heat during the summer. Park lands are prime habitat for prairie falcons and are a release site for California condors that have been hatched in captivity. Pinnacles was originally established as a national monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, and was redesignated as a national park in 2013 by Congress.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Pinnacles 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 Pinnacles use?

January 10, 2013 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Pinnacles's National Park birth card?

The 4 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 Pinnacles National Monument (1908-01-16) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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