How much does snow tubing cost at Brian Head?
From $25 per person for a 1.5-hour session, with the tube included; the resort says prices may change during holiday periods. Tickets are sold online for specific sessions and at the ticket office.
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Snow Tubing, Sledding & Ice Skating at Brian Head
The groomed tubing hill at the Giant Steps base, what the resort will and will not let you slide on, and the outdoor rink in town.
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- Where
- The tubing hill at the Giant Steps base area, with its own lanes and its own ticket, separate from the ski runs
- Sessions
- 1.5-hour blocks. Sun to Thu 10 am to 4 pm, Fri and Sat 10 am to 7 pm; daily 10 to 7 over the holiday blocks
- Price
- From $25 per person per session, tube included; prices can rise over holidays. 2026-27 tickets on sale
- Who can ride
- Ages 4 and up. Under 50 lb rides alone in their own tube with a ticketed adult in the lane beside them
- Holiday hours
- Dec 20 to Jan 4, Jan 17 to 19, Feb 14 to 22: seven days a week, 10 am to 7 pm
- Opens when
- Later than the lifts. The hill needs deeper cover than a groomed run; most years that means mid to late December
Snow tubing is the best reason to drive up to Brian Head if nobody in your group skis. It is a groomed hill with its own lanes and its own ticket at the Giant Steps base area, the tube comes with the ticket, and a 1.5-hour session is enough for most kids at 9,700 feet. Here is how it runs, what it costs, and the two things the brochure leaves out: the hill opens later than the lifts, and you cannot bring your own sled.
Snow tubing at Giant Steps
- Where: the Giant Steps base area, separate from the ski runs
- Session length: tickets are sold in 1.5-hour blocks
- Price: from $25 per person per session; the resort notes prices may change during holidays
- Tube rental: included in the ticket, picked up at the hill
- Minimum age: 4 years old
- Under 50 pounds: the child rides alone in their own tube and a ticketed adult must ride alongside in a separate lane
- Tickets: buy online for a specific session or at the ticket office
In a normal week the hill runs Sunday through Thursday from 10 am to 4 pm and Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm, with the extended 10-to-7 schedule seven days a week over the holiday blocks: December 20 to January 4, Martin Luther King weekend (January 17 to 19) and Presidents Day week (February 14 to 22). Those are the resort’s published patterns for 2026-27; the hill is snow dependent and the resort says hours are subject to change during the season.
Tubing needs deeper coverage than the first ski runs do, because a tubing lane is sculpted out of the pack rather than groomed on top of snowmaking, so it typically opens weeks after the lifts. The federal snow station on the mountain reads a median of a few inches on opening day and first reaches 24 inches around December 18 in a median year. If your trip is a tubing trip, aim for Christmas week or later and check the live depth before you promise anyone.
Two practical notes from the elevation. Dress for standing around in the cold, not for a car ride: waterproof gloves, snow boots and a hat matter more here than a heavy coat, and the lanes run until 7 pm on weekends when the temperature drops fast. And a 1.5-hour session is genuinely enough for most young kids at 9,700 feet; do not assume you will want a second one. On a weekend or holiday, buy the session online rather than hoping for a walk-up slot.
On the mountain right now
Typical values for this date from fifteen winters of station data; live readings load in a moment.
Snow depth at 10,040 ft
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NRCS SNOTEL Brian Head, on the mountain above the Giant Steps base
Temperature at the sensor
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Hourly reading, always shown with its time
Typical depth for today
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Median of 15 seasons, with the middle-half range
NWS forecast for Brian Head (grid point at about 10,200 ft)
Sledding: where you can and cannot
Brian Head Resort does not allow personal sleds, saucers, toboggans or tubes on its slopes or at the tubing hill; the tubing ticket is the only way to slide on resort snow. That rule is a safety one and it is enforced, so leave the sled in the car at the base areas.
Outside the resort, sledding at Brian Head is informal: the meadows and lot edges around town fill with families on fresh-snow days, but there is no designated, signed sledding hill, and the resort’s summer Avalanche Tubing hill (a conveyor-served tube run that operates June to September) is a different thing entirely. Pick a slope with a flat runout, nowhere near Highway 143, and remember that anything you cannot see the bottom of at Brian Head is steeper than it looks.
From our side of the mountain, the honest sledding answer is Duck Creek itself: the open meadows around the village at 8,400 feet, with the inn’s own grounds and the pond loop as the gentle options, and no ticket required. Our winter guide has the village side of it.
Ice skating in Brian Head
Brian Head Ice is a separate business running an outdoor rink in town, with skate rentals and skate aids for small children. It has typically run from mid December into March with daily open-skate sessions, weather permitting; it had not posted 2026-27 hours when we checked, so confirm before you drive up specifically for it. The resort also lists ice skating among its winter activities for storm days when the lifts are on wind hold.
The only indoor rink in southern Utah is KJ’s Ice Barn in Enoch, just north of Cedar City, which is the fallback when the outdoor ice is soft or the wind is up.
Make it an evening, not a drive
A tubing session, dinner in town and a walk back to a condo across the road is a better evening than a 61-mile drive in the dark. That is the day the condo we co-host was made for.
October 2026
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Tubing facts (session length, price floor, ages, the 50-pound rule, hours and holiday blocks) were read from the resort’s snow-tubing page on 22 October 2026, which was already selling 2026-27 tickets. The no-personal-sleds rule is in the resort’s policies. Rink details are patterns from public listings and the resort’s own press kit, not a current schedule. Everything here changes season to season; the official pages are linked below.
Brian Head tubing and sledding questions
What families ask before they book a session.
How old do you have to be to go tubing at Brian Head?
Four years old. Children under 50 pounds must ride alone in their own tube with a ticketed adult riding alongside in a separate lane, so budget a ticket for the adult too.
What are the Brian Head tubing hours?
Sunday to Thursday 10 am to 4 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, and seven days a week from 10 to 7 over the Christmas (Dec 20 to Jan 4), MLK (Jan 17 to 19) and Presidents Day (Feb 14 to 22) blocks. Hours are snow dependent and can change during the season.
When does the tubing hill open?
Later than the ski lifts, usually mid to late December, because the lanes need a deep natural base rather than a strip of machine-made snow. The resort opened for skiing on November 6 in 2026; do not expect tubing on opening weekend.
Can I bring my own sled to Brian Head Resort?
No. Personal sleds, tubes and saucers are not allowed on the resort’s slopes or at the tubing hill. Sledding around town is informal and unsigned; the meadows at Duck Creek Village are the easy, free alternative on our side of the mountain.
Is there ice skating at Brian Head?
Yes, at Brian Head Ice, an outdoor rink in town that has typically run mid December to March with skate rentals, weather permitting. It had no 2026-27 hours posted when we checked. KJ’s Ice Barn in Enoch, near Cedar City, is the region’s only indoor rink.
Is Brian Head tubing worth it from Duck Creek?
As part of a Brian Head day, yes; on its own it is an hour and a quarter each way in winter at best (1 hr 35 by the Cedar City loop when Mammoth Creek Road is shut) for a 90-minute session. Pair it with a half day of skiing, lunch in town or the Cedar Breaks snowshoe tour, or stay the night across the road.
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Snow Report & Weather
Live snow depth from the SNOTEL station on the mountain, the NWS forecast for Brian Head, and fifteen seasons of data on when the snow is actually deep
See snow report & weather Where to Stay
The two-bedroom condo we co-host across the street from the Giant Steps lift, plus the honest trade-offs of sleeping in Brian Head, Duck Creek, Parowan or Cedar City
See where to stay Skiing & Snowboarding
Eight chairlifts, 72 runs and nothing below 9,600 ft: terrain by lift, opening day, kids ski free, lift ticket patterns, night skiing and rentals
See skiing & snowboardingVolgende stappen
Tube by Day, Fireplace by Night
Stay across the street from the tubing hill in the condo we co-host, or base at Duck Creek Village Inn and sled the meadows at the door.