2 hills in South Dakota, most of them run by a county or city

Sledding Hills in South Dakota: Every One an Agency Names

Q: Is there snow tubing in South Dakota?

1 of the 2 hills below is 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.

Q: How do you know whether a hill in South Dakota 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.

Every hill below was named for sledding by the South Dakota 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 2 towns

A county or city

Most of them named by

2 local, 0 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

no state winter parking permit

1 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in South Dakota

South Dakota has 2 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: 2

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

Grouped by who named it

All 2 South Dakota 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 city2 hills

Pageant Hill

City park

Big Rock Park. Custer. Run by City of Custer Parks and Recreation

Besides being a great spot for sledding in the winter, Pagent Hill is also the location of the Custer Volunteer Fire Department 4th of July Fireworks.

Big Rock Park, City of Custer, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Big Rock Park, City of Custer

Tubing Hill

City park

Great Bear Recreation Park. Sioux Falls. Run by City of Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation

Great Bear Recreation Park Tubing Hill

Great Bear Recreation Park, City of Sioux Falls, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Tubing

Great Bear Recreation Park, City of Sioux Falls

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in South Dakota

No South Dakota 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.

South Dakota 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

South Dakota sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in South Dakota?

Who runs the sledding hills in South Dakota?

Does sledding cost anything in South Dakota?

Is there snow tubing in South Dakota?

How do you know whether a hill in South Dakota is open?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

South Dakota 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.