One hill in Texas, named by the state

Sledding Hills in Texas: Every One an Agency Names

Q: How do you know whether a hill in Texas is open?

1 of the 1 hill publishes a conditions page of its own, linked below. For the rest, opening follows snow rather than a date, so the agency page is where a closure appears first.

Q: What does Texas say about sledding on its own hills?

1 of the 1 page carries guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department writes: The dunes heat up quickly during summer months. Be aware of your surroundings, so that you can find your way back to your starting point. 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 Texas 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 1 town

The state

Most of them named by

0 local, 1 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

Texas State Parks Pass may be needed to park

0 / 1 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

1 publish hours, 1 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Texas

Texas has 1 hill that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and it is run by the state.

State park or forest: 1

Texas 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.
Every Texas hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind.
Texas runs a Texas State Parks Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below.

Grouped by who named it

The one Texas hill an agency names

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 state1 hill

The dunes

State park

Monahans Sandhills State Park. Monahans. Run by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Rent sand discs and sled the dunes.

Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

walk up$4 daily adult, child 12 years and under freeGate open: 7 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Entrance Fees Adult: $4 Daily Child 12 Years and Under: Free

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department publishes this with the hill: “The dunes heat up quickly during summer months. Be aware of your surroundings, so that you can find your way back to your starting point.”

Conditions from the agency · Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Texas

Every Texas hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind. 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.

Texas runs a Texas State Parks Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below. That distinction matters at the gate: the permit is sold for the plowed lot rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require one and still publish that the sledding itself is free.

A yellow road grader with tyre chains clearing deep snow from a forest car park beside a small concrete restroom building carrying a green permit required sign, under a low grey sky with heavily laden conifers behind — What a winter parking permit buys. Nineteen states sell one, and on almost every hill that needs it the money is for the lot being graded here rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require a permit and still print that the sledding itself is free. The sign on the building is the whole transaction, and it is posted at the entrance rather than at the hill. “Plowing the Sno-Park on OR 58”, OregonDOT, CC BY 2.0

Texas sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Texas?

Who runs the sledding hills in Texas?

Does sledding cost anything in Texas?

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

What does Texas say about sledding on its own hills?

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Texas 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.