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3 hills in Indiana, most of them run by the state

Sledding Hills in Indiana: Every One an Agency Names

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Indiana 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.

3
Hills a public agency names
in 3 towns
The state
Most of them named by
0 local, 3 state, 0 national forest
2
That print no charge
Indiana State Park Annual Entrance Pass may be needed to park
1 / 1 / 0
Tubing, tow or lights
1 publish hours, 1 a conditions page
The answer

Whose website to open first in Indiana

Indiana has 3 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by the state.

  • State park or forest: 3
  • Indiana 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.
  • 2 of the 3 print no charge and 1 print a fee or a parking charge.
  • Indiana runs a Indiana State Park Annual Entrance Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below.
  • The season runs on the Pokagon run is refrigerated, so its season is a set of published dates rather than a snow depth.
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Grouped by who named it

All 3 Indiana 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 the state3 hills

Toboggan Run

State park

Pokagon State Park. Angola. Run by Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks

Pokagon State Park's refrigerated Toboggan Run near Angola, Indiana, has about 90,000 riders every season.
Pokagon State Park Toboggan Run, Indiana DNR State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

walk up$20 per toboggan per hour (including tax). Park entrance fees apply.Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., with extended hours during winter breakthe track is refrigerated, so it runs without snow, and it shuts if the air temperature at the track falls to zero or below

$20 per toboggan per hour (including tax). Cash, check, and Visa/MasterCard accepted. A Driver's License or State-issued ID is required as a deposit and rents up to four toboggans. No all-day rentals; no group reservations or group rates. Sleds are rented on a first-come, first-served basis. Park entrance fees apply.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks publishes this with the hill: “Gloves must be worn to ride the toboggan. Maximum four people per 4-person toboggan. Maximum of three people per 3-person toboggan (no exceptions). Children must be able to understand and follow rules. No cameras/video equipment on the ride. Must use the park's toboggans.”

Conditions from the agency · Pokagon State Park Toboggan Run, Indiana DNR State Parks

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Indiana

2 of the 3 print no charge and 1 print a fee or a parking charge. 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.

Indiana runs a Indiana State Park Annual Entrance 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

Indiana sledding questions

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Sledding hills in other states

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

Indiana 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.