Help feed children in need and receive a free tubing ticket at Ruidoso Winter Park.

Food 4 Kids Backpack Day returns to Ruidoso Winter Park on February 8, 2026, offering a chance to support local children while enjoying a day of winter fun. Guests who bring $10 worth of non-perishable food items will receive a free tubing ticket ($38 value) or a free Screaming Eagle Mountain Coaster ticket ($25 value). Additional food donations earn additional tickets, making it easy to give generously and play generously.

For information and reservations, visit https://ruidosowinterpark.com/events/

Suggested Donation Items

Backpack for Kids Food Drive – Winter Park

Please donate non-perishable, unopened items. Single-serve, kid-friendly options are especially helpful.

Single-Serve Items (Preferred)

• Juice boxes or shelf-stable drink pouches

• Individual cereal boxes or cups

• Instant oatmeal packets

• Granola or breakfast bars

• Individual snack crackers

• Raisins or other dried fruit snack packs

• Shelf-stable pudding or applesauce cups

Multi-Serve Pantry Items

• Pasta

• Canned soup

• Canned tuna or chicken

• Peanut butter

• Ramen noodles

Thank you for helping provide weekend meals for local children in need.

The Lincoln County Food 4 Kids Backpack Program provides weekend food packages to chronically hungry elementary school students from low-income households who are at risk of hunger over the weekend when free school meals are unavailable.

Every Friday afternoon students on the program are called out of class, often to the school nurse’s office, and discretely given a bag of food which is tucked into their backpacks. Each bag contains enough food to see the students through the weekend, and the discreet distributions remove the stigma that might be attached to the program.

Learn more at https://www.lincolncountyfood4kids.org/