{"id":832,"date":"2019-09-28T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/28\/2019927hiking-at-sleeping-giant-state-park-is-back\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:27:49","slug":"2019927hiking-at-sleeping-giant-state-park-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/28\/2019927hiking-at-sleeping-giant-state-park-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcouWLYPPqM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sept. 23 marked the first day of fall and with the recent reopening of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ct.gov\/deep\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2716&amp;deepNav_GID=1650&amp;q=325264\"> Sleeping Giant State Park<\/a>, many Quinnipiac students and nearby residents are back hiking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe campus is a lot more lively now, it\u2019s not as humid so people are enjoying the time outside a little more,\u201d senior, Mike Reiley said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sleeping Giant State Park closed in May 2018 after a Tornado swept across the area. Despite the devastation, hundreds of trees still have a home on the Sleeping Giant. <\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1160.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:46.379310607910156%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/11_image-asset.png\" alt=\"View of Sleeping Giant State Park from the Quinnipiac quad on the Mount Carmel Campus\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/11_image-asset.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/11_image-asset.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"1160x538\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"View of Sleeping Giant State Park from the Quinnipiac quad on the Mount Carmel Campus\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d8fcc20dab9ec13bf3888fc\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">View of Sleeping Giant State Park from the Quinnipiac quad on the Mount Carmel Campus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1154.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:49.91334533691406%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_image-asset.png\" alt=\"Devastation has cleared following the May 2018 tornado\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_image-asset.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_image-asset.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"1154x576\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,1.0\" alt=\"Devastation has cleared following the May 2018 tornado\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d8fcabd1d22d1764523c9bb\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">Devastation has cleared following the May 2018 tornado<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSleeping Giant in the fall, there is nothing like it,\u201d Reiley said.  \u201cI mean you see the colors changing and all the foliage coming in, it\u2019s just tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">With the fall season here, many students look forward to hiking the sleeping giant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI have not yet hiked the Sleeping Giant in the fall, definitely on my bucket list,\u201d senior, Jack Main said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The park is open everyday from 8 a.m. until sunset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 23 marked the first day of fall and with the recent reopening of the Sleeping Giant State Park, many Quinnipiac students and nearby residents are back hiking. \u201cThe campus is a lot more lively now, it\u2019s not as humid so people are enjoying the time outside a little more,\u201d senior, Mike Reiley said. Sleeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/28\/2019927hiking-at-sleeping-giant-state-park-is-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park is back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[403,311,402,282],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qnn","tag-hamdenct","tag-qnn","tag-sleepinggiant-statepark","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}