One hill in Arizona, named by a national forest

Sledding Hills in Arizona: Every One an Agency Names

Q: Does sledding cost anything in Arizona?

No Arizona 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: How do you know whether a hill in Arizona 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: 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.

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Arizona agency that runs it, on a page linked beside it. What it costs, whether it runs tubing, a tow or lights, and the agency's own words.

Hills a public agency names

in 1 town

A national forest

Most of them named by

0 local, 0 state, 1 national forest

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Arizona

Arizona has 1 hill that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and it is run by a national forest.

National forest: 1

Most of what Arizona designates sits on national forest land, where the published thing is usually a plowed winter parking area with a run beside it.
No Arizona hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.

Grouped by who named it

The one Arizona hill an agency names

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 national forest1 hill

Williams Valley

National forest

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. Alpine. Run by Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, USDA Forest Service

There is an area in Williams Valley west of Alpine that is very popular for tubing. This site offers opportunities to sled, toboggan, or tube down the slope.

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests | Winter Sports | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests | Winter Sports | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Arizona

No Arizona 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.

Arizona 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

Arizona sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Arizona?

Who runs the sledding hills in Arizona?

Does sledding cost anything in Arizona?

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

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Arizona 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.