Eleven lanes and a magic carpet along the Mississippi in Andalusia, with a 4-hour ticket that beats buying two 2-hour sessions.
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$26 for 2-hour session, $42 for 4-hour session
Rough cost for a family of four: about $104.00 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.
Snowstar Winter Park in Andalusia sits along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois, and it has 11 lanes served by a Magic Carpet lift. The carpet means no rope to grip, which helps younger riders.
The pricing structure is the useful detail. The park lists $26 for a 2-hour session and $42 for a 4-hour session, so two back-to-back short sessions cost $52 against $42 for the longer one. If your group can stay put, buy the long ticket. Prices change, so check the park’s site.
Snowstar welcomes ages 3 and up, which is younger than many hills, and it presents itself as family-oriented. The property lists other activities including skiing, snowboarding, a terrain park, zipline, disc golf and paintball, though which ones run in winter is a question for the park. Our record has no days, hours, or height minimum, and it does not say whether night tubing or reservations apply, so confirm before you go.
The closest comparison is Chestnut Mountain Resort in Galena, about 63 miles away in a straight line, which has 10 lanes but uses rope tows and a 4-year minimum. For a Chicago-area option, Villa Olivia is about 113 miles from here.
Day and session times are not in our record; if you plan to stay past two hours, the 4-hour ticket is the better buy, so pick a longer window.
Choose a 2-hour or 4-hour session; plan a 4-hour block if you want to ski or ride the hill repeatedly.
You need published hours, night sessions or reservation rules right now: those are not in our record.
Chestnut Mountain Resort in Galena is the closest alternative at about 63 miles straight-line, with 10 lanes on rope tows, and Villa Olivia in Bartlett is about 113 miles away.
The listed prices are $26 for a 2-hour session and $42 for a 4-hour session. Check current rates.
The listing says ages 3 and up are allowed. No minimum height is listed.
Snowstar lists 11 tubing lanes with a Magic Carpet lift.
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 $26 per person. $26 for 2-hour session, $42 for 4-hour session
Minimum age is 3.
We track 3 tubing hills in Illinois. At $26 a head this one sits right on the state median of $26.
It runs 11 lanes against a state average of about 11, so it is broadly typical for the state.
One caveat worth repeating: this park had not published its current-season dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 3 parks we track in Illinois had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as a prior season's until the park confirms it.
skisnowstar.com
Checked September 2026.