Cleanup continues more than two months after a tornado hit Sleeping Giant State Park in Connecticut – one of several tornados that touched down in May. Tom Tyler, Connecticut’s director of State Parks, says the main arrival area at Sleeping Giant has hardly any trees left.
“Pretty much every tree was either knocked down entirely or sheared in half, halfway up or splintered in a way that it needed to be removed, so really the damage was pretty total. You can now be in the parking lot and have a view of the top of mountain and the Sleeping Giant’s chin, which you couldn’t have for at least generations,” Tyler said.
Tyler says the park’s most popular hike…the Tower Trail – is almost clear.
“But there are some top reaches of the trail that we haven’t been able to remove the heavy trees that are down. We actually have to bring in some equipment to break some rocks that are limiting some hairpin turns, to get heavier equipment higher up,” he said.
