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The property was purchased by the SGPA in 1933, during the Great Depression, for $30,000; the money was raised through private donations and the property became the Sleeping Giant State Park. [14] [A] Sleeping Giant State Park was created in 1924, when the SGPA donated 600 acres to the Park and Forest Commission. The state added an additional ...
Within Hamden's Sleeping Giant park, the trail—designated as the "Blue Trail" among the park's system of trails with variously colored rectangular blazes, and variously shaped red ones, passes such dramatic overlooks as Hezekiah's Knob (680 feet, at 41°26'3.00"N 72°52'25.89"W) and the stone Tower (739 feet at its ground floor).
Sleeping Giant State Park offers hiking, picnicking, fishing, and youth group camping. [11] There are some 30 miles of trails on a variety of terrain. North of the park is the Sleeping Giant Golf Course, privately operated but open to the public. [12]
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Mill River passes through Sleeping Giant State Park in northern Hamden and East Rock Park below Lake Whitney in Hamden. These are among the river's reaches that remain undeveloped and are popular spots for fishing and hiking. The USGS has maintained a gauge (01196620) near Sleeping Giant for the past 41 year to continuously monitor flow.
The Sleeping Giant is a series of mesas formed by the erosion of thick, diabase sills on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Sawyer's Bay the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its ...
Hamden Connecticut's Sleeping Giant Mountain from the Quinnipiac river. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.3 square miles (86 km 2), of which 32.8 square miles (85 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 1.62%, is water.
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, established in 1944 as Sibley Provincial Park and renamed in 1988, is a 244-square-kilometre (94 sq mi) park located on the Sibley Peninsula in Northwestern Ontario, east of Thunder Bay. The nearest communities are Pass Lake, in the township of Sibley, located at the northern entrance to the park, and Dorion ...