Sledding Hills in Utah: Every One an Agency Names

Utah has 5 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing. Of those, 2 are run by the state, 3 by a national forest. Each one is listed below with the agency that named it and a link to the page the name appears on.

Most of what Utah designates sits on national forest land, where the published thing is usually a plowed winter parking area with a run beside it. Nationally the split is 95 hills run by a county, metro or city department against 75 run by a state park system, which is the opposite of where most people look first.

Every Utah hill below prints a charge or a parking fee of some kind. Utah runs a Utah State Parks Annual Day-Use Pass, and it is not required to park at the hills below. Where a charge appears it is usually a parking or day use fee for the park rather than a price for the hill.

2 of the 5 hills below are 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.

5 of the 5 hills publish 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.

4 of the 5 pages carry guidance from the agency that runs the hill. Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest writes: Big Cottonwood Canyon is a protected watershed. No dogs or domestic animals Each of those sentences is reproduced whole on the hill it belongs to.

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.