Head of Sleeping Giant
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Connecticut /
Hamden /
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The Head is a steep landform with a summit at about 670 feet, near the west end of Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, CT. It features precipitous natural cliffs on its east side (the Chin), and a steep hiking trail up its west side, adjacent to precipitous cliffs created by quarrying of traprock in the first third of the 20th century.
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Coordinates: 41°25'35"N 72°54'0"W
- Wooster Square (Neighborhood) 13 km
- Holy Land USA (Abandoned) 18 km
- Riverside Cemetery 19 km
- Former Reminton Arms Gun Club site 35 km
- Avon Old Farms School 40 km
- Park River Conduit Outlet (Connection with CT River) 41 km
- Aetna Headquarters 42 km
- Connecticut Greenways Trail Willimantic 64 km
- Fort Trumbull Neighborhood 68 km
- Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, & Ninevah Beach Subdivisions Historic District 70 km
- Quinnipiac University 1.1 km
- Sleeping Giant State Park 1.9 km
- Quinnipiac River State Park 3.8 km
- New Haven County, Connecticut 4 km
- Cheshire, Connecticut 7.1 km
- West Rock Ridge State Park 8.3 km
- Choate Rosemary Hall, Secondary School 8.4 km
- Tyler's Mill/MTB/Motocross 8.9 km
- Prospect, Connecticut 9 km
- Broad Brook Reservoir 9 km