What date does Shenandoah use?

December 26, 1935 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Shenandoah's National Park birth card?

The 5 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 Shenandoah National Park (authorized) (1926-05-22) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

National Park coordinate

Shenandoah's National Park Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts

Date established as National Park: December 26, 1935

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

How the card is assigned

Shenandoah National Park (Virginia) became a National Park on December 26, 1935. Card Blueprints uses December 26 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1935 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-hearts.

Parks that share December 26

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

Other parks on the 5 of Hearts

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Shenandoah on the record

Shenandoah National Park (, often ) is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east. Skyline Drive is the main park road, generally traversing along the ridgeline of the mountains. Almost 40% of the park's land—79,579 acres (124 sq mi; 322 km2)—has been designated as wilderness areas and is protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest peak is Hawksbill Mountain at 4,051 feet (1,235 m).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah use?: December 26, 1935 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is Shenandoah's National Park birth card?: The 5 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 Shenandoah National Park (authorized) (1926-05-22) 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 Shenandoah National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.