During the one-day festival, Manitoba Street is shut down completely and truckloads of snow are brought in to blanket the road, turning it into a massive snow tubing hill for a due dose of frosty ...

The hill is a large, human-made park feature with an extremely steep slope, created using construction debris in the 1970s. It was originally designed as a junior ski hill, the report says.

In a statement, the city said Mooney’s Bay was closed as a sledding hill in 2017 and a sign at the top warns of “Extreme Danger” that could result in serious injury or death.

Sledding at Snape’s Hill may be reconsidered The Municipality of Jasper will explore whether sledding at Snape’s Hill could be allowed if a street closure were implemented.

In 2017, the resort doubled its tube hill length and added an extra drop, with well over 600 metres to fly down. The initial drop is extra steep, which sends riders off at an exhilarating speed.

Lethbridge families took full advantage of Saturday’s snowfall and took to the sled hill. This is the first time Paige Pope has taken her kids to the Sugar Bowl, one of the bigger hills in the city.

Mayor Marianne Alto said she lived in that neighbourhood for 21 years and her kids used the hill in the past. But Alto said it’s about balancing fun against the need for public safety.

On Jan. 6, at the Westlake Recreation Center’s sledding hill, a boy’s collarbone was broken while sledding. And while he may have been following safety guidelines, a group of rowdy teens were not.

City of Ottawa crews removed sign posts and placed bales of hay and foam to act as barriers to other obstacles at the Mooney's Bay Park hill where an 11-year-old girl died in a sledding accident ...