News & Updates

Trail Crew Update – Year-End 2022
The following was provided by SGPA Board Member and Trail Crew Manager, Mike Miller. To learn more about the Trail Crew, click HERE. Header photo taken by Julie Hulten. It’s been a busy year on the...

You Make It All Possible…
Together, we can protect and care for our beloved Sleeping Giant SGPA's year-end appeal is on. We are counting on giant-lovers like you to ensure that this special place is cared for today, and long...

New Trees Planted at the Giant – Fall 2022
The Sleeping Giant’s picnic area is now home to many new trees and shrubs, thanks to the efforts of SGPA and its volunteers. Since the area was devastated by a tornado in 2018, SGPA has worked with...

Trail Crew Update – Fall 2022
The following was written by SGPA Board Member and Trail Crew Manager, Mike Miller, and was originally published in Issue 128 (Fall 2022) of SGPA's seasonal newsletter, Giant News. To learn more...

Welcome to SGPA’s New Website
The Sleeping Giant Park Association's Board of Directors is thrilled to unveil our new website. Made possible through a grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the website was...

A New Look and a Refreshed Mission: Preparing for the Next 100 Years
The following was written by SGPA board member, Aaron Lefland, and originally published in Issue 127 (Spring 2022) of SGPA's seasonal newsletter, Giant News. If you regularly receive the Giant News,...

Do you work for the Park?
Sleeping Giant Park Association volunteers are sometimes asked this. Well…it depends on what you mean by “work!” The orange T-shirted folks you see trekking around the Giant on a Sunday morning,...

Long before it was a Park …
Remembering our "First People" Monument to the Quinnipiac is located on Townsend Avenue in Fort Wooster Park. Can we, today, even imagine the life of a Quinnipiac man, woman, or child? Is it...

From the Field – March 25, 2020
Charisse Mihalakos has been working with Trails Crew and now, with the suspension of group activities, has chosen to go out by herself to continue the work of keeping the Giant neat and tidy. We...