One hill in Delaware, named by the state

Sledding Hills in Delaware: Every One an Agency Names

Q: How do you know whether a hill in Delaware 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 Delaware 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

The state

Most of them named by

0 local, 1 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

Delaware State Parks Annual Pass may be needed to park

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

1 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Delaware

Delaware has 1 hill that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and it is run by the state.

State park or forest: 1

Delaware is one of the states where the park system itself does most of the naming, so the state park pages are the ones worth opening first.
Every Delaware hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind.
Delaware runs a Delaware State Parks Annual Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below.

Grouped by who named it

The one Delaware 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 the state1 hill

Hawk Watch hill

State park

Brandywine Creek State Park. Wilmington. Run by Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation

Delaware is notorious for its flat terrain, but Brandywine Creek is a hilly gem on the Piedmont plateau! Hawk Watch hill is popular for sledding after a rare Delaware snow, and the park’s rolling hills are perfect for cross-country skiing.

Brandywine Creek, Delaware State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

DE registered vehicle: $5/day, Non-DE registered vehicle: $10/day, Walking/biking: FreePark open daily, 8:00am to sunset

DE registered vehicle: $5/day

Brandywine Creek, Delaware State Parks

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Delaware

Every Delaware hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind. 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.

Delaware runs a Delaware State Parks Annual Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below. That distinction matters at the gate: the permit is sold for the plowed lot rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require one and still publish that the sledding itself is free.

A yellow road grader with tyre chains clearing deep snow from a forest car park beside a small concrete restroom building carrying a green permit required sign, under a low grey sky with heavily laden conifers behind — What a winter parking permit buys. Nineteen states sell one, and on almost every hill that needs it the money is for the lot being graded here rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require a permit and still print that the sledding itself is free. The sign on the building is the whole transaction, and it is posted at the entrance rather than at the hill. “Plowing the Sno-Park on OR 58”, OregonDOT, CC BY 2.0

Delaware sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Delaware?

Who runs the sledding hills in Delaware?

Does sledding cost anything in Delaware?

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

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Delaware 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.