Missouri Sledding Hills: 7 Parks That Name One

Q: Does sledding cost anything in Missouri?

No Missouri 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 Missouri 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.

7

Hills a public agency names

in 4 towns

A county or city

Most of them named by

7 local, 0 state, 0 national forest

7

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

1 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Missouri

Missouri has 7 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: 7

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

Grouped by who named it

All 7 Missouri 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 city7 hills

Sioux Passage Park

County park

Florissant. Run by St. Louis County Parks and Recreation

Winter Outdoor Sports -Sioux Passage is a designated Winter Sports area with snowmobiling, sled riding and cross-country skiing permitted

Sioux Passage Park - St. Louis County Parks and Recreation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sioux Passage Park - St. Louis County Parks and Recreation

Lake Springfield Park

County park

Springfield. Run by Springfield-Greene County Park Board

Do you want to build a snowman or go sledding in the park? Here's a few top sledding spots in our parks from big to small: Lake Springfield Park, Doling Park, Jordan Valley Park, and Wanda Gray School-Park. Which park do you love to sled at?

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington)

Doling Park

County park

Springfield. Run by Springfield-Greene County Park Board

Do you want to build a snowman or go sledding in the park? Here's a few top sledding spots in our parks from big to small: Lake Springfield Park, Doling Park, Jordan Valley Park, and Wanda Gray School-Park. Which park do you love to sled at?

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington)

Jordan Valley Park

County park

Springfield. Run by Springfield-Greene County Park Board

Do you want to build a snowman or go sledding in the park? Here's a few top sledding spots in our parks from big to small: Lake Springfield Park, Doling Park, Jordan Valley Park, and Wanda Gray School-Park. Which park do you love to sled at?

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington)

Wanda Gray School-Park

County park

Springfield. Run by Springfield-Greene County Park Board

Do you want to build a snowman or go sledding in the park? Here's a few top sledding spots in our parks from big to small: Lake Springfield Park, Doling Park, Jordan Valley Park, and Wanda Gray School-Park. Which park do you love to sled at?

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sledding Spots - Springfield-Greene County Park Board (Parks Pick-Me-Up blog, posted Feb 16, 2021 by staff member Kara Remington)

Rotary Park sledding area

City park

Rotary Park. Kirksville. Run by City of Kirksville Parks and Recreation

Rotary Park also has restrooms, a popular snow sledding area, and a playground structure.

Parks, Trails & Facilities - City of Kirksville, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Parks, Trails & Facilities - City of Kirksville

Sled Hill at Stephens Lake Park

City park

Stephens Lake Park. Columbia. Run by Columbia Parks and Recreation

There is a hill for sledding on the east side of the lake, which can be accessed from the park entrance at 2001 Broadway.

Stephens Lake Park - City of Columbia, Missouri, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Stephens Lake Park - City of Columbia, Missouri

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Missouri

No Missouri 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.

Missouri 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

Missouri sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Missouri?

Who runs the sledding hills in Missouri?

Does sledding cost anything in Missouri?

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

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Missouri 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.