Talk:Sleeping Giant (Connecticut)

message: Did a major overhaul of the material originally posted at Sleeping Giant State Park and placed it here (as the landform is broader and older than the park); redirected the park page here, however, the park page could be re-initiated with information specific to the park (without creating redundancy and duplicating all the information posted here). 
Finally, there was a long open letter posted on the talk page for  Sleeping Giant State Park. It was part of an old edit war by two Wikipedians that had been cut and pasted into the talk pages of a number of different Connecticut articles. Those interested in it can see it archived at  Talk:Ragged Mountain (Connecticut)/Archive 1
--Pgagnon999 (talk) 16:46, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded and moved from Sleeping Giant State Park 

message: The 2nd ref is to the 17th edn of this work, stated as "undated". If only for the reason that a dateless ref detracts from face validity, we need to verify that everything based on it could rely instead on the 2007 19th edn. (The 18th, 1997, says that the 5th was 1965, and BTW the increase in quality in the 18th and 19th suggests increased effort per edition as the reason for the slower updates now than (mmm...) 13 in 32 years, or 2.5 yrs/edn.) If someone else with the 19th doesn't do so first, i may get around to it. Note that both pp. 224-225 and 257-260 can be relevant, along with the associated maps. At a glance, nothing there supports the WPA mention; i'll try to get around to checkig the 18th, but  perhaps a separate source is needed. --Jerzy•t 21:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CT Walk Book 

message: My recollection is closer to 7 octants than all 8 (unless there's some specification about the trees being bare). I'm fact-tagging that. --Jerzy•t 21:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  360 degrees 

message: I pretty much rewrote; the issues are in two main areas:
# Parking fee amount:
#: It said $7 & $10, IIRC, but it's much more complicated: the annual fee to park at any and all parks & forests is $50, if you're under 65. After 4pm, $4. You can park legally on the paved shoulder for a good distance, when the fee is in effect. If you don't like crowds (which are enormous by hiking standards, near that parking lot and picnic area, during the paid-parking times!), there are 6 obvious unpaved parking areas, off the road and on state land, at both trailheads for the Red Circle and Red Square trails, at the point that is at E trailheads of the Violet, Green, White, Orange, and Yellow trails, and at the point that is the N trailhead of the Red Diamond and Red Hexagon Trails; there are a few other places where at least one car can be accommodated safely on the shoulder.   There's a free lot across Whitney Avenue, in sight of where you can enter the park on the Blue Trail. If you were carrying a picnic basket and trailing ambulatory kids, you'd have about a half mile in woods and on grass before getting to the picnic area, and never even have to use your hands to balance except when crossing the guard rail in order to walk along the flat Mt. Carmel Avenue road bridge to cross the, what, 30-foot wide?, Mill River. 
# "High" parking fee: 
#: that's relative & PoV, and at many CT parks the fee is no more for parking than the fee for the $10 in-room-bar candy bars is for candy. The parking supports personnel costs (safety, vandalism-inhibition, and litter-remediation, and if you think it's high, you are confusing a barrier to discount with an unavoidable cost. --Jerzy•t 23:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parking 

message: Hello all... 
An image used in the article, specifically :Image:Gianttower.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue.  The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive.  It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard.  As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article.  If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 00:54, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh.  As I write there is no image of The Sleeping Giant as he appears (but there's a view from his chin, which is a wiki wtf). 24.27.31.170 (talk) 23:03, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image needs replacement 

message: Please add disambiguation link to the Sleeping Giant mountain in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.5.36.116 (talk) 22:13, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: Needs a better map, the existing map is completeley uninformative.Paulhummerman (talk) 18:20, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map