Alaska Sledding Hills: 6 Parks That Name One

Q: Does sledding cost anything in Alaska?

No Alaska hill below prints a charge for sledding on it. Where a charge appears it is usually a parking or day use fee for the park rather than a price for the hill.

Q: Is there snow tubing in Alaska?

1 of the 6 hills below is published as a tubing run rather than a sledding hill. A tubing run usually runs to published hours and often closes for conditions, which a sledding hill rarely does.

Q: How do you know whether a hill in Alaska is open?

No hill here publishes a conditions feed, so opening follows snow rather than a date. The agency page for the park is where a closure appears first.

Q: What does Alaska say about sledding on its own hills?

3 of the 6 pages carry guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation writes: Sled, snowboard, and ski at your own risk. Each of those sentences is reproduced whole on the hill it belongs to.

Q: Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

New York, with 14. Across the country 202 hills are named by the agency that runs them, spread over 35 states, and 15 states name none at all.

6

Hills a public agency names

in 3 towns

A county or city

Most of them named by

5 local, 0 state, 1 national forest

6

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

1 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Alaska

Alaska has 6 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing. Of those, 5 are run by a county, metro or city park department, 1 by a national forest.

County, metro or city: 5
National forest: 1

The first website to open in Alaska is a county or city parks department rather than the state park system, because that is where most of the designations below were published.
No Alaska hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.

Grouped by who named it

All 6 Alaska hills

Each card opens with the agency’s own words, because that sentence is the reason the hill is on the page. Everything under it is an attribute the same agency published on the same page. Where an agency adds guidance of its own, it is quoted whole and nothing is added to it.

Named by a county or city5 hills

Centennial Park sledding hill

City park

Centennial Park. Anchorage. Run by Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation

Moderate and advance slopes.

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “Sled, snowboard, and ski at your own risk.”

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage

Kincaid Park sledding hill

City park

Kincaid Park. Anchorage. Run by Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation

Moderate to advance slopes. Warm-up, restroom facilities available.

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “Sled, snowboard, and ski at your own risk.”

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage

Russian Jack Park sledding hill

City park

Russian Jack Park. Anchorage. Run by Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation

Hill behind the Chalet only where rope tow used to be. Moderate slope. Warm-up, restroom facilities available when chalet is open.

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “Sled, snowboard, and ski at your own risk.”

Sledding, Anchorage Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Anchorage

Dave Rose Park sledding hill

City park

Dave Rose Park. Anchorage. Run by Municipality of Anchorage, Parks and Recreation

The park features a playground, sledding hill, picnic shelter and basketball court, paved walking paths, and a large athletic field which is used for Kilikiti.

PRC 21-07, Dave Rose Park Parking Lot, Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission memo, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

PRC 21-07, Dave Rose Park Parking Lot, Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission memo

Capitol School Park sledding hill

City park

Capitol School Park. Juneau. Run by City and Borough of Juneau, Parks and Recreation

It also includes a tot lot, swings, playground structure, open play area, picnic area, sledding hill, and landscaping beds.

Capitol School Park, Project List, City and Borough of Juneau Parks and Recreation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Capitol School Park, Project List, City and Borough of Juneau Parks and Recreation

Named by a national forest1 hill

Yunshookuh Loop Campground sledding

National forest

Yunshookuh Loop Campground. Wrangell. Run by USDA Forest Service, Tongass National Forest, Wrangell Ranger District

Sledding/Tubing Areas

Winter Sports, Tongass National Forest, USDA Forest Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Tubingsledding happens on the campground roadway itself when snow limits access for other vehicles

Winter Sports, Tongass National Forest, USDA Forest Service

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Alaska

No Alaska hill below prints a charge for sledding on it. Nationally 140 of the 202 hills print no charge at all, and the ones that do are nearly always the two things that cost an agency money to run: a tubing operation that rents the tube, and a tow that carries you back up.

Alaska sells no winter parking permit. 19 states do, and on nearly every hill that needs one the money is for the plowed lot rather than for the slope.

Four people in winter coats seen from behind carrying large black inner tubes up a packed snow run through dark evergreen forest, with more figures at the top of the run — Tubes going back up a run under their own power. A tubing hill is the one kind on these pages that usually charges, because the agency is renting the tube or running a lift rather than opening a slope, and it is also the one most likely to publish fixed hours and a conditions line. Eighteen of the hills here run tubing; most of the rest are a slope and a car park. “Snow Tubing”, Iain Laurence, CC BY-SA 3.0

Alaska sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Alaska?

Who runs the sledding hills in Alaska?

Does sledding cost anything in Alaska?

Is there snow tubing in Alaska?

How do you know whether a hill in Alaska is open?

What does Alaska say about sledding on its own hills?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

Alaska first snow datesWhen the first measurable snow has historically arrived, which is when a hill starts to be worth the drive.Alaska snowpackHow much snow is actually on the ground right now, from the automated stations that measure it.Alaska plow trackerWhether the road to the hill has been plowed, from the state that plows it.Alaska cross country skiingThe groomed trail systems, which is what most state agencies publish instead of sledding.

Alaska read September 23, 2026 from the agency pages linked beside each hill. Hours, fees and winter parking permit prices are set season by season and a hill opens on snow rather than on a date, so the agency page linked beside each one is the thing that governs on the day. Every state is on the sledding hills hub.