Looking for a place to go sledding in Greenville, SC? With snow in the forecast we’ve seen a lot of parents asking about great places to bring the family to sled. We asked our readers for their ideas and the Kidding Around team members pitched in with a few ideas of their own. So, to help you enjoy the rare Upstate, SC snow, here’s our list of places for sledding near Greenville and across the Upstate!

• Here’s where you can buy a sled in Greenville, as well as a list of alternative objects that work as sleds.
• Not enough snow in the Upstate? Here are some sledding destinations in Western North Carolina to try.

Go Sledding in the Upstate Safely

The first thing to remember about snow in the Upstate is that roads are commonly a problem. Before you load up your kids and sleds into the family car, check on the local road conditions. Follow any emergency requests to stay off the roads. All the sledding fun in the world isn’t worth an icy car wreck and potential injuries. Safety first!

If you are unable to get in the car and drive to a good sledding hill, check out your neighborhood or a park within walking distance. Even if your yard doesn’t have a hill, maybe the neighbor does. Many folks will happily open their snow-filled yards up to neighborhood kids doing a little sledding.

Last but not least, parents don’t forget, even without a hill you can have lots of fun and laughs just pulling kids around. I promise they won’t forget the day you took them out in the yard and pulled them on a sled as you ran back and forth across the snow.

Good Places to Sled in Upstate SC

If driving conditions are safe, here are some parks with hills that readers enjoy visiting for sledding.

• Tyger River Park, Duncan: There is a good hill adjacent to Clubhouse Drive
• Century Park, Greer: Try the hill where the hillside slide is located.
• Barnett Park, Spartnburg
• East North Street School, Greenville
• Herdklotz Park, Greenville
• Legacy Park, Greenville
• Campbell’s Covered Bridge, Landrum: Avoid the hill that ends in the creek, instead use the hill behind the bridge. (On the same side as the parking lot)

Where is your favorite place to go sledding?

Think it’s going to snow? Might be time to dig out that sled! 
What?
You don’t have a sled?
Not to worry.

Here’s a list of items that can be suitable for stand-in sleds. And then if you want the real thing, we’ve got some places where you might be able to buy a sled near Greenville, SC.

This article includes:
Household Items and Other Things That Work As Sleds
Things That DO NOT Make Good Sleds
Where to Buy a Sled Near Greenville, SC

Looking for more snow day ideas?

• Try snow painting! You can do this activity even if there isn’t a heavy accumulation of snow!
• Try these Snow Experiments for Kids to make this snow day a fun science adventure.
• Places to go sledding in the Upstate!

The forecasters are calling for snow. It only happens a couple of times a year around here. And up until I picked up two sleds at Costco, my family had lived 12 years in the South sans sled. I never could bring myself to spend the money on something we’d use only a couple times a year. And I always had it in my head that if I bought a sled I’d somehow affect our chances of getting snow.  You know, I’d buy it, the kids would get excited, and then it would sit in our already crowded garage completely unused.

While we left Upstate New York 20 years ago because the winters in Syracuse were completely ridiculous, I do still enjoy a bit of snow now and then. So when it snows, we go out in the yard and play! My house is on a hill, and we’ve gotten some pretty good sledding out of rather interesting objects.

Sled Alternatives

The first recommendation is a boogie board. You know, the kind you would use in the ocean. We bought three in the Outerbanks four years ago, and since we only drive to the beach maybe once a year, they’ve actually gotten more use as sleds.  That string that attaches to the board actually works pretty well at pulling a child across the snow, and once that snow is matted down and maybe a tiny bit icy, they go pretty fast. They’ll even hold an adult. Ask me how I know.

My second recommendation is kind of similar. Check your pool floats. A tube that floats will glide across slippery snow. Just be prepared that the pool float may meet its untimely demise on the sledding slopes. They aren’t made of material as thick as their cousins, the snow tube. But when there’s snow out there and you’re sled-less, sacrificing the $5 pool float from last year’s pool season seems pretty worth it.

Lastly, look for anything with a flat bottom. Back in the day, way, way back in the day, I do remember gathering with some friends and a few dining hall trays up in the snowy metropolis of Syracuse, NY. They made for some pretty good sledding. While we at Kidding Around do not condone the theft of said dining hall trays, you might have something equally flat-lying around at home that will work. My kids have successfully used a toy box lid. We tied a rope to the handle of the lid and that worked to pull the kids around and get the snow-packed down.

Objects that failed as sleds

Then there were the things that failed as sledding and sliding devices. Kidding Around’s Jennifer Curry reports that large Amazon boxes are NOT in fact suitable sleds. Her husband discovered this last year when they left their sleds at Grandma’s.

Kristina, another Kidding Around contributor, can also attest that cardboard boxes only last so long as sleds – as in, only a couple runs:

Update: A helpful reader pointed out that cardboard wrapped in a trash bag works pretty well. If you try this modification and it works out for you, let us know!

Where you can buy a sled

Want to go the more conventional route? If you are looking to pick a real sled before the possibility of snow, here are some suggestions.

In previous years, here’s where we (and our readers) have found sleds.

Reader Essie H. sent us this photo from Bass Pro Shops on 1/6/25 when sleds were$16.99.

Reader Elizabeth N. found sleds at the Ace Hardware on Reidville Road. 1/6/25

We have NOT confirmed that these places have sleds TODAY. They have had them in previous snow events. So please call ahead, unless you just plan to swing by when you’re getting your bread and milk and check it out.

• Costco
• Sams Club
• Wilsons
• Publix
• Ingles
• Pickwick Pharmacy
• Five Below
• Dobson Gifts (Greer)
• Ace Hardware
• Play it Again Sports
• CVS
• Sunrift (Travelers Rest)
• Ollie’s

Happy sledding everyone!

Don’t want to wait for it to snow in Greenville?

Go chase down that snow! Here are places just a short drive away where you’ll have a better chance of doing some sledding!

Go Sledding Near the Upstate!

What are your family’s favorite things to do in the snow?