A county park with 16-foot-wide groomed tubing lanes, a magic carpet, snowmaking, and a 2-hour slot at $12 per person.
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$12 per person for 2-hour time slot
Rough cost for a family of four: about $48.00 at the posted starting rate, before rentals, food, or parking. Many parks sell tubing by the hour or by a fixed session rather than a full-day pass — check the note above for exactly what that price buys.
Hawk Island Park in Lansing is an Ingham County park with lanes built specifically for tubing, each 16 feet wide and groomed. Our record lists a 50 to 60 foot drop over a 500 to 600 foot course, with a magic carpet conveyor for the ride up. Snowmaking helps extend the season when natural snow is thin, and there is no night tubing listed.
Price is the appeal. A 2-hour time slot is listed at $12 per person, one of the lower prices you will see among the parks we track. The county’s rule that riders must load and unload the conveyor independently matters for planning: younger kids who cannot step on and off the carpet alone may struggle, and our record lists no age or height minimums, so ask the county before bringing toddlers.
County parks post winter status updates, and openings depend on conditions, so look at the current status before you drive. Our record has no reservation rule; confirm whether slots are sold in advance.
If you are willing to travel, Echo Valley Winter Sports Park is about 53 miles straight-line with a tow rope and toboggan runs, and Cannonsburg Ski Area is about 63 miles. Our Lansing tubing page lists more options.
Check the county park status page before you go: snowmaking extends the season, but daily openings depend on conditions. Our record lists no night tubing.
One 2-hour time slot
You want night tubing (none listed), need help loading a conveyor (riders must load and unload independently), or want a big vertical drop beyond 50 to 60 feet.
Echo Valley Winter Sports Park in Kalamazoo is about 53 miles straight-line, and Cannonsburg Ski Area in Belmont about 63 miles.
Our record lists $12 per person for a 2-hour time slot. County rates can change, so confirm current pricing.
The park uses a magic carpet conveyor, and riders must load and unload independently.
Our record lists a 50 to 60 foot drop over a 500 to 600 foot course with groomed lanes 16 feet wide.
Current-season dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the park before driving out — tubing seasons shift with the weather.
Tubing starts at $12 per person. $12 per person for 2-hour time slot
We track 16 tubing hills in Michigan. At $12 a head this one sits below the state median of $17, undercutting 3 of the 6 paid parks we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this park had not published its current-season dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 16 parks we track in Michigan had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as a prior season's until the park confirms it.
parks.ingham.org
Checked September 2026.