When the trails finally reopen and time comes to check on boxes, it pretty much makes sense to make next year the time to formally earn a Giant Master title. Anyone who’d like to join me is welcome, and anyone who actually has a plan on how to hike it, I’d love the input.

I'd love to be part of any group going out on the weekend.

Me too.

When does the place reopen? We were planning on planting there on Sunday! I didn't even realize it'd been closed.

I’m hoping it opens in the Spring now but there still is no target date to open the trails.

I've read that the State will not reopen until all the trails have been deemed safe (blowdowns removed by volunteers). I just have to laugh, because when we have a big storm in Shelton, we're like, "Hey everybody! Help us clear the trails!" We would never close the trails because of blowdowns. I mean, it's a forest, and dead limbs and trees are falling naturally all the time. The trees that have already fallen are the safe ones.

Meanwhile I’ve not heard a peep about Wharton Brook State Park. Isn’t that a lot smaller?

It is much smaller. It's still closed, though it looks like most of the work is finished. They may be letting the fields settle and grass take root.

I boxed Wharton brook before the storm and most of the boxes listed were already missing, there were a lot of cut trees before that storm, I can only assume it’s worse now.

There were still two there :D