I wanted to collect the whole set via postcard exchanges and thought I had just managed to (because I had arranged swaps for all the NPs in the box I had bought).
List of cards in my box
Acadia
American Samoa
Arches
Badlands
Big Bend
Biscayne
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Carlsbad
Channel Islands
Congaree
Crater Lake
Cuyahoga
Death Valley
Denali
Dry Tortugas
Everglades
Gates of the Arctic
Gateway Arch
Glacier
Glacier Bay
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Great Basin
Great Sand Dunes
Great Smoky Mountains
Guadalupe
Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Indiana Dunes
Isle Royale
Joshua Tree
Katmai
Kenai Fjords
Kings Canyon
Kobuk Valley
Lake Clark
Lassen Volcanic
Mammoth Cave
Mesa Verde
Mount Rainer
North Cascades
Olympic
Pinnacles
Petrified Forest
Redwood
Rocky Mountain
Saguaro
Sequoia
Shenandoah
Theodore Roosevelt
Virgin Islands
Voyageurs
White Sands
Wind Cave
Wrangell-St Elias
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion
However… this wonderful card appeared on the postcard wall on Postcrossing yesterday:
…so apparently I haven’t collected them all
But… where has this card come from and where can I get it? Are there others I don’t know about? I have googled ‘new river gorge 59 parks national park postcard’ to no avail and also looked to see if the company sell another postcard box but they don’t. Did the sender perhaps print it themselves?
I don’t think there are different boxes. I think the sellers just forgot to include this card in some of their boxes. I saw a review that stated the same thing, that the reviewer was missing this card. And I’ve ordered this set twice: The first time I was missing this New River Gorge card and didn’t even know it. They gave me 2 Acadia cards instead. The second box had this card in there and only 1 Acadia card. It’s a bit disappointing that they are inconsistent with what they put in their boxes, but the cards in this set are otherwise great.
Ah yes, my box says 62 parks on the front. I’ve just had a look around and the boxes look identical, the only difference is the number in the circle at the top which is probably why I never noticed. I must have an older box.
I think our IN Dunes is the newest US park…it was a Natl Lakeshore before. Maybe your box is missing this? Ive been planning to go up to the store and get new cards
I believe New River Gorge is the newest U.S. national park, it was just recently made a national park so probably your box was current when you purchased it but they’ve added national parks to the box since.
Your best bet to obtain it without buying a whole new box is to see if you can find someone who lives nearby or is traveling there and may be able to pick up a single card in the park store/gift shop. I live near Cuyahoga Valley and while I cannot buy single cards online from 59 parks, Lantern Press, Anderson Design Group etc. I can buy them at the park shop.
New River Gorge is a very new national park. I don’t think it’s that they forgot to add it to the first box, they’ve just added additional parks as they’ve been made national parks.
I think it also depends on where you order your box from. I ordered my original box from Amazon and it came damaged and looked like it had been previously opened. There were cards that I knew should be there, missing. Interestingly, Gorge was there, though I may have swapped it already (sorry Georgia). I can check in the morning when I have my box.
You’re correct. I just checked the first box and it does say 62 parks, I suppose New River Gorge wasn’t supposed to be in that box. I don’t have the 2nd box with me, but when I do I’ll check to see if it says 63 parks. I’m curious now when it was added, though, given I bought the 1st box earlier this year, and the 2nd box just a few weeks ago…both from the same vendor in Amazon.
It was added as a national park in 2020, though not sure how long it may have taken for them to add the postcard to the box. Perhaps the vendor was trying to get rid of old stock.
@Appaloosa05 It’s good to know they can be bought individually because I’ve only ever seen the box sets. I had also considered whether boxes (especially those sold over here) were bought in bulk and now they’re still selling the 62 Park version to get rid of them.
@xxiiangel I’d be interested to know that too! I bought my box either late 2021/early 2022. The publishing date was Apr 2021, so I assume they’ve published the 63 box set more recently than that but I can’t find a publishing date for the 63 Parks version anywhere.
@beatriceh Don’t worry at all, I appreciate the thought though That’s so bad that it arrived damaged and with cards missing! I think you’re right about where you buy it from though. I bought mine from an online bookstore that is still advertising the 62 Parks box so I reckon it’s due to their stock.