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4 hills in New Mexico, most of them run by a national forest

Sledding Hills in New Mexico: Every One an Agency Names

Every hill below was named for sledding by the New Mexico 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.

4
Hills a public agency names
in 3 towns
A national forest
Most of them named by
0 local, 0 state, 4 national forest
3
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 New Mexico

New Mexico has 4 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by a national forest.

  • National forest: 4
  • Most of what New Mexico designates sits on national forest land, where the published thing is usually a plowed winter parking area with a run beside it.
  • 3 of the 4 print no charge and 1 print a fee or a parking charge.
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Grouped by who named it

All 4 New Mexico 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 forest4 hills

Capulin Snow Play Site

National forest

Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands, Sandia Ranger District. Cedar Crest. Run by Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands, USDA Forest Service

Sledding/Tubing
Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands | Capulin Snow Play Site | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

$10 per vehicle per dayBased on seasonal conditions.the entrance gate has to be unlocked; the forest says a locked gate means the site is closed

Day Use: $10 per vehicle per day

Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands, USDA Forest Service publishes this with the hill: “Please use plastic sleds or tubes only and note that there is a $10.00 cash or check only amenity fee.”

Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands | Capulin Snow Play Site | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service

Us Hill Snow Play Area

National forest

Carson National Forest. Taos. Run by Carson National Forest, USDA Forest Service

The snowhill is located on the (right) east side of the highway near the vault toilet just past Forest service road 442.
Carson National Forest | Us Hill Snow Play Area | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Carson National Forest, USDA Forest Service publishes this with the hill: “No garbage facilities, pack it in, pack it out.”

Carson National Forest | Us Hill Snow Play Area | Forest Service, USDA Forest Service

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in New Mexico

3 of the 4 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.

New Mexico 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

New Mexico sledding questions

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Sledding hills in other states

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

New Mexico 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.