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4 hills in Rhode Island, most of them run by the state

Sledding Hills in Rhode Island: Every One an Agency Names

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Rhode Island 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 4 towns
The state
Most of them named by
0 local, 4 state, 0 national forest
4
That print no charge
no state winter parking permit
0 / 0 / 0
Tubing, tow or lights
0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page
The answer

Whose website to open first in Rhode Island

Rhode Island has 4 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by the state.

  • State park or forest: 4
  • Rhode Island is one of the states where the park system itself does most of the naming, so the state park pages are the ones worth opening first.
  • No Rhode Island hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation publishes its own list

While this area is the only state facility offering groomed and tracked ski trails, Colt, Goddard, and Lincoln Woods State Parks offer open areas where patrons can enjoy snow-related recreational activities such as hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
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Grouped by who named it

All 4 Rhode Island 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 the state4 hills

Hilly areas at Pulaski State Park

State park

Pulaski State Park. Chepachet. Run by Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation

In addition to its cross-country ski trails, the nearby Pulaski State Park includes several hilly areas where the public can enjoy sledding, hiking, and snowshoeing.
Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation publishes this with the hill: “However, these activities, as well as animals, are not permitted on the ski trails.”

Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks

Open areas at Colt State Park

State park

Colt State Park. Bristol. Run by Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation

While this area is the only state facility offering groomed and tracked ski trails, Colt, Goddard, and Lincoln Woods State Parks offer open areas where patrons can enjoy snow-related recreational activities such as hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks

Open areas at Goddard Memorial State Park

State park

Goddard Memorial State Park. Warwick. Run by Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation

While this area is the only state facility offering groomed and tracked ski trails, Colt, Goddard, and Lincoln Woods State Parks offer open areas where patrons can enjoy snow-related recreational activities such as hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks

Open areas at Lincoln Woods State Park

State park

Lincoln Woods State Park. Lincoln. Run by Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation

While this area is the only state facility offering groomed and tracked ski trails, Colt, Goddard, and Lincoln Woods State Parks offer open areas where patrons can enjoy snow-related recreational activities such as hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Winter Safety Tips, Rhode Island State Parks

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Rhode Island

No Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island sledding questions

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Sledding hills in other states

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

Rhode Island 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.