3 hills in Vermont, most of them run by the state

Sledding Hills in Vermont: Every One an Agency Names

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

No hill here publishes a conditions feed, so opening follows snow rather than a date. The season runs on snow, with the parks open all year and most gates locked through the off-season.

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 Vermont 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 3 towns

The state

Most of them named by

0 local, 3 state, 0 national forest

That print no charge

Vermont State Parks day use fee may be needed to park

0 / 0 / 0

Tubing, tow or lights

0 publish hours, 0 a conditions page

The answer

Whose website to open first in Vermont

Vermont has 3 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing, and all of them are run by the state.

State park or forest: 3

Vermont 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 Vermont hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.
Vermont runs a Vermont State Parks day use fee, and it is not required to park at the hills below.
The season runs on snow, with the parks open all year and most gates locked through the off-season.

Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation publishes its own list

Vermont State Parks are open all year, even in winter. You can visit for activities like skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, sledding, fat biking, and snowmobiling.

Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Grouped by who named it

All 3 Vermont 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 state3 hills

Sledding at Elmore State Park

State park

Elmore State Park. Elmore. Run by Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation

Sledding

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

There is no fee to enter the park in the off-season.

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks

Sledding at Mt. Ascutney State Park

State park

Mt. Ascutney State Park. Windsor. Run by Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation

Sledding

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

There is no fee to enter the park in the off-season.

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks

Sledding at Mt. Philo State Park

State park

Mt. Philo State Park. Charlotte. Run by Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation

Sledding

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

There is no fee to enter the park in the off-season.

Winter Activities, Vermont State Parks

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Vermont

No Vermont 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.

Vermont runs a Vermont State Parks day use fee, 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

Vermont sledding questions

Are there designated sledding hills in Vermont?

Who runs the sledding hills in Vermont?

Does sledding cost anything in Vermont?

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

Which state has the most designated sledding hills?

Sledding hills in other states

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

Vermont 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.