10 hills in Maryland, most of them run by a county or city

Sledding Hills in Maryland: Every One an Agency Names

Q: Does sledding cost anything in Maryland?

No Maryland 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 Maryland is open?

1 of the 10 hills publish a conditions page of its own, linked below. For the rest, opening follows snow rather than a date, so the agency page is where a closure appears first.

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

10 of the 10 pages carry guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission writes: Sledding is 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.

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Maryland 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 county or city

Most of them named by

10 local, 0 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

10 publish hours, 1 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Maryland

Maryland has 10 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by a county, metro or city park department.

County, metro or city: 10

The first website to open in Maryland 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 Maryland hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.

Grouped by who named it

All 10 Maryland 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 city10 hills

South Germantown Recreational Park sledding hills

County park

South Germantown Recreational Park. South Germantown Recreational Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: South Germantown Recreational Park (hill behind Field F and hillside between Mooseum and TennisPlex)

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Damascus Recreational Park sledding hillside

County park

Damascus Recreational Park. Damascus Recreational Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Damascus Recreational Park (hillside near tennis court parking lot on Kings Valley Road)

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Long Branch-Wayne Local Park sledding hill

County park

Long Branch-Wayne Local Park. Long Branch-Wayne Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Long Branch-Wayne Local Park (off of University Blvd.)

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Avenel Local Park

County park

Avenel Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Avenel Local Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Ayrlawn Local Park

County park

Ayrlawn Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Ayrlawn Local Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Hillmead Neighborhood Park

County park

Hillmead Neighborhood Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Hillmead Neighborhood Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Norwood Local Park

County park

Norwood Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Norwood Local Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Pilgrim Hills Local Park

County park

Pilgrim Hills Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Pilgrim Hills Local Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Stratton Local Park

County park

Stratton Local Park. Run by Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Approved locations for sledding in Montgomery Parks include: Stratton Local Park

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks close at sunset, please no sledding after dark

Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is at your own risk.”

Our Best Sledding Hills, Montgomery Parks

Sled Run, Pinecliff Park

County park

Pinecliff Park. Frederick. Run by Frederick County Parks and Recreation

The sled run is approximately 20 feet wide and 150 feet long, suitable for sleds and toboggans.

Sled Run & Ice Skating Pond, Frederick County Parks and Recreation, MD, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

the park remains accessible until 10:00 p.m. on days the sled run or ice-skating pond are openthe county opens the run only when snow and hill conditions allow, and posts current status online and at the park

Frederick County Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “Check posted signs or online updates before visiting for the most current status.”

Conditions from the agency · Sled Run & Ice Skating Pond, Frederick County Parks and Recreation, MD

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Maryland

No Maryland 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.

Maryland 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

Maryland sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Maryland?

Who runs the sledding hills in Maryland?

Does sledding cost anything in Maryland?

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

What does Maryland say about sledding on its own hills?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Maryland 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.