2 hills in Idaho, split evenly between a county or city and the state

Sledding Hills in Idaho: Every One an Agency Names

Q: How do you know whether a hill in Idaho 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 Idaho say about sledding on its own hills?

2 of the 2 pages carry guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation writes: For these reasons, pets are not allowed on the snowshoe or ski trails south of Highway 54 or at the sledding area. 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.

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Idaho 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 2 towns

The state

Most of them named by

1 local, 1 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

Idaho State Park Motor Vehicle Entry Fee (MVEF) Annual sticker may be needed to park

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Idaho

Idaho has 2 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing. Of those, 1 is run by a county, metro or city park department, 1 by the state.

County, metro or city: 1
State park or forest: 1

Idaho splits its designations evenly between a county or city and the state, so neither one is the single website to open first.
Every Idaho hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind.
Idaho sells a Idaho State Park Motor Vehicle Entry Fee (MVEF) Annual sticker, and where one is required it is a parking permit rather than a charge for the hill.

Grouped by who named it

All 2 Idaho 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 city1 hill

Sledding hill

City park

Freeman Park. Idaho Falls. Run by Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation

The most popular sledding hill is located near the top of the hill at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, and people sled down towards the Bandshell.

Winter Outdoor Recreation | Idaho Falls, ID, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

FREE

Thanks to our wonderful and hilly parks, we have several amazing( and FREE!) locations for families to spend an afternoon sledding this Winter.

Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “Remember, sledding is always done at your own risk.”

Winter Outdoor Recreation | Idaho Falls, ID

Named by the state1 hill

Sledding area

State park

Farragut State Park. Athol. Run by Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation

Farragut State Park has a variety of winter recreation activities for your enjoyment, including classic track xc ski trails, snowshoe trails, and sledding.

Farragut State Park | Department of Parks and Recreation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Motorized Vehicle Entry Fee required to park or drop off

The sledding hill is within the park boundaries and a Motorized Vehicle Entry Fee is required to park or drop members of your party off.

Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “For these reasons, pets are not allowed on the snowshoe or ski trails south of Highway 54 or at the sledding area.”

Farragut State Park | Department of Parks and Recreation

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Idaho

Every Idaho 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.

Idaho sells a Idaho State Park Motor Vehicle Entry Fee (MVEF) Annual sticker, and where one is required it is a parking permit rather than a charge for the hill. 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

Idaho sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Idaho?

Who runs the sledding hills in Idaho?

Does sledding cost anything in Idaho?

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

What does Idaho say about sledding on its own hills?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Idaho 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.