2 hills in Montana, most of them run by a national forest
Sledding Hills in Montana: Every One an Agency Names
Every hill below was named for sledding by the Montana 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.
2
Hills a public agency names
in 2 towns
A national forest
Most of them named by
0 local, 0 state, 2 national forest
2
That print no charge
no state winter parking permit
2 / 0 / 0
Tubing, tow or lights
0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page
The answer
Whose website to open first in Montana
Montana has 2 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by a national forest.
National forest: 2
Most of what Montana designates sits on national forest land, where the published thing is usually a plowed winter parking area with a run beside it.
No Montana hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.
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Grouped by who named it
All 2 Montana 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 national forest2 hills
Swan River
National forest
Bigfork. Run by Flathead National Forest, Swan Lake Ranger District
Sledding/Tubing
Swan River, Flathead National Forest, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
No Montana 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.
Montana 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.
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
Montana sledding questions
Montana has 2 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by a national forest. Each one is listed below with the agency that named it and a link to the page the name appears on.
Most of what Montana designates sits on national forest land, where the published thing is usually a plowed winter parking area with a run beside it. Nationally the split is 95 hills run by a county, metro or city department against 75 run by a state park system, which is the opposite of where most people look first.
No Montana 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.
2 of the 2 hills below are published as a tubing run rather than a sledding hill. A tubing run usually runs to published hours and often closes for conditions, which a sledding hill rarely does.
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.
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.
Montana 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.
