12 hills in Ohio, most of them run by a county or city

Sledding Hills in Ohio: Every One an Agency Names

Q: Can you sled after dark in Ohio?

5 of the Ohio hills are published as lit. 14 hills are lit nationally, which makes it the least common thing an agency publishes about a hill, and the hours the lights run are on each agency's own page.

Q: How do you know whether a hill in Ohio 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: What does Ohio say about sledding on its own hills?

7 of the 12 pages carry guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Cleveland Metroparks writes: All Riders must be 42” or taller and all riders must wear winter gloves or mittens that cover your fingertips. No exceptions! 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 Ohio 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 10 towns

A county or city

Most of them named by

12 local, 0 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

0 / 1 / 5

Tubing, tow or lights

5 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Ohio

Ohio has 12 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: 12

The first website to open in Ohio is a county or city parks department rather than the state park system, because that is where most of the designations below were published.
9 of the 12 print no charge and 3 print a fee or a parking charge.

Grouped by who named it

All 12 Ohio 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 city12 hills

The Chalet Toboggan Chutes

Metro park

Mill Stream Run Reservation. Strongsville. Run by Cleveland Metroparks

Experience the icy thrill of tobogganing at The Chalet in Mill Stream Run Reservation

Tobogganing, Cleveland Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

toboggan lift$15 (daily- multiple ride ticket); Children 11 and Younger: $13 (daily- multiple ride ticket)Open the day after Thanksgiving through the last weekend in February, weather permitting.the agency cancels or delays runs for weather and ice conditions, and posts updates on a weather line

Daily admission rates: $15 (daily- multiple ride ticket) Children 11 and Younger: $13 (daily- multiple ride ticket)

Cleveland Metroparks publishes this with the hill: “All Riders must be 42” or taller and all riders must wear winter gloves or mittens that cover your fingertips. No exceptions!”

Tobogganing, Cleveland Metroparks

Sledding Area at Sleepy Hollow

Metro park

Brecksville Reservation. Brecksville. Run by Cleveland Metroparks

Sledding is available at Sleepy Hollow at the driving range and #10 tee.

Sledding Area at Sleepy Hollow, Cleveland Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Cleveland Metroparks publishes this with the hill: “Please use the sledding hills with caution and with proper equipment and only when a proper amount of snow exists.”

Sledding Area at Sleepy Hollow, Cleveland Metroparks

Engle Road Sled Riding Hill

Metro park

Big Creek Reservation. Middleburg Heights. Run by Cleveland Metroparks

Sledding

Engle Road Sled Riding Hill, Cleveland Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Cleveland Metroparks publishes this with the hill: “Please use the sledding hill with caution and with proper equipment and only when proper weather/snow conditions exist.”

Engle Road Sled Riding Hill, Cleveland Metroparks

Memphis Sledding Hill

Metro park

Big Creek Reservation. Brooklyn. Run by Cleveland Metroparks

Sledding

Memphis Sledding Hill, Cleveland Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Memphis Sledding Hill, Cleveland Metroparks

Riverview Park

County park

Madison Township. Run by Lake Metroparks

Riverview Park offers the steepest, most thrilling sledding hill available in the park district.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lit after darkSledding permitted until 11 pm.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks

Hidden Valley Park

County park

Madison Township. Run by Lake Metroparks

In the eastern end of Lake County there are two very popular spots to sled: Hidden Valley Park and Riverview Park, both located in Madison Township.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lit after darkSledding permitted until 11 pm.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks

Chagrin River Park sledding hill

County park

Chagrin River Park. Eastlake. Run by Lake Metroparks

Chagrin River Park offers a moderate hill located off the Riverwood trail.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Sledding is permitted until one-half hour after sunset.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks

Chapin Forest Reservation sledding hill

County park

Chapin Forest Reservation. Kirtland. Run by Lake Metroparks

In the western end, popular hills to sled are found at Chagrin River Park in Eastlake and Chapin Forest Reservation in Kirtland.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lit after darkSledding permitted until 11 pm.

Sledding, Lake Metroparks

Oxbow Area

County park

Cascade Valley Metro Park. Akron. Run by Summit Metro Parks

Cascade Valley Metro Park / Oxbow Area (lighted)

Winter Sports, Summit Metro Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lit after dark

Summit Metro Parks publishes this with the hill: “Remember to walk up the side of sled hills, not in the center where you may be in the path of moving sleds.”

Winter Sports, Summit Metro Parks

Main Entrance sledding area

County park

Goodyear Heights Metro Park. Akron. Run by Summit Metro Parks

Goodyear Heights Metro Park / Main Entrance (lighted)

Winter Sports, Summit Metro Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lit after dark

Summit Metro Parks publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is permitted in designated areas only.”

Winter Sports, Summit Metro Parks

Miami Whitewater Forest Overlook

County park

Miami Whitewater Forest. Harrison. Run by Great Parks of Hamilton County

Recommended sledding areas are located at Miami Whitewater Forest (Overlook off Harbor Ridge Drive), Sharon Woods (Cardinal Crest Meadow Shelter) and Winton Woods (Butterfly Bluff Shelter).

Winter Activities, Great Parks of Hamilton County, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

A valid Motor Vehicle Permit is required to enter the parks

A valid Motor Vehicle Permit (MVP) is required for vehicle entry at Great Parks’ parks and conservation areas across Hamilton County.

Great Parks of Hamilton County publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is permitted everywhere except golf courses, conservation areas and natural areas.”

Winter Activities, Great Parks of Hamilton County

Cardinal Crest Meadow Shelter sledding area

County park

Sharon Woods. Sharonville. Run by Great Parks of Hamilton County

Recommended sledding areas are located at Miami Whitewater Forest (Overlook off Harbor Ridge Drive), Sharon Woods (Cardinal Crest Meadow Shelter) and Winton Woods (Butterfly Bluff Shelter).

Winter Activities, Great Parks of Hamilton County, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

A valid Motor Vehicle Permit is required to enter the parks

A valid Motor Vehicle Permit (MVP) is required for vehicle entry at Great Parks’ parks and conservation areas across Hamilton County.

Great Parks of Hamilton County publishes this with the hill: “Sledding is permitted everywhere except golf courses, conservation areas and natural areas.”

Winter Activities, Great Parks of Hamilton County

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Ohio

9 of the 12 print no charge and 3 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.

Ohio 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

Ohio sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Ohio?

Who runs the sledding hills in Ohio?

Does sledding cost anything in Ohio?

Can you sled after dark in Ohio?

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

What does Ohio say about sledding on its own hills?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Ohio 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.