How much does a real Christmas tree cost?

Every farm on this site with a 2026 price for a cut-your-own tree of either height, cheapest first. Where a farm charges by the foot we have multiplied it out, and where it charges by species the range runs from its cheapest tree to its dearest. Prices are before sales tax unless the farm says otherwise. Farms that charge one price for any tree are in their own list below.

54 of the 225 farms we list have put a 2026 price on a tree, in all eight states, and only a handful publish a ladder from the smallest tree to the tallest. These are the fullest, with the two best-known lists that are still last season’s at the end, marked as such.

85 farms charge the same for any tree you cut, whatever its height — from $40 at North Fork Heritage Farm to $150 at Moose Apple Christmas Tree Farm. For a tall tree this is the cheapest way to buy one; for a small one it is the dearest. Cheapest first. 25 give the price for 2026; where a farm prints no year, or the price is last season’s, the row says so.

A starting price or a range only, 2026

• Circle C Tree Farms — Boone, NC. $50 at 3 ft to $500 at 14 ft and over, pre-cut from $20 — the farm publishes only the two ends of its ladder
• Cornett Deal Christmas Tree Farm — Vilas, NC. $80 to $175 for 5 to 9 ft — the range the farm gave us while it settles its list
• Haynie’s Green Acres — Crowley, TX. from $49.99 for a tabletop, $124.99 at 6–8 ft, $189.99 at 8½–10 ft and $449.99 at 11–12 ft; the farm’s own email of 12 October 2026 says a 10 to 12 ft Fraser fir can reach $699.99, the dearest tree on this page
• Oh What Fun It Is — Willis, TX. from $70 for a 6 ft tree; the full list isn’t set yet
• Radde Tannenbaum Farm — Meridian, TX. Afghan pine $75 to $140 at 6–9 ft; pre-cut Fraser $99 to $189
• Bois D’Arc Christmas Tree Farm — Telephone, TX. field trees $120 to $400, a potted 3-gallon loblolly $50; the price on the tag includes tax
• Pattarozzi Family Christmas Tree Farm — Evadale, TX. $40 to $200 a tree, Virginia pine and Leyland cypress of 4 to 12 ft; the farm gives only the range
• D’Lamater’s Winter-fresh — Leslie, MI. from $45, plus $10 a foot for trees of 8 to 9 ft

Because it has been in the ground for years longer. Price does not rise in a straight line with height, and the ladders above show it clearly:

• Appalachian Evergreens: $60 at 5 ft is $12 a foot. $135 at 9 ft is $15 a foot. The tree is 80% taller and 125% dearer.
• Elk River Evergreens: $50 up to 5 ft is about $10 a foot. $240 at 11–12 ft is about $21 a foot — double the rate.
• Mehaffey, last season: $100 at 5–6 ft against $400 at 12–13 ft. Twice the height, four times the price.

The reason is growing time. A Fraser fir takes seven to ten years to reach six or seven feet; Circle C near Boone tells its customers that a 7 ft tree is 12 to 14 years old counting from seed. Every extra foot is another two or three years of a grower paying for land, shearing and losses. An 11 ft tree has been on that hillside longer than most people’s children have been alive, and the price says so.

It also explains why tall trees sell out first and why farms ration them. Panoramic View says plainly that its big trees are limited, and Elk River recommends its tag-now-cut-later option for anything over 11 ft.

Less than you would expect, and the mountain fir is often the cheaper one. At 6 ft, Appalachian Evergreens in North Carolina asks $72 for a Fraser fir while Spring Creek Growers in Texas asks $82 for a Virginia pine and $86 for a Leyland cypress.

That seems backwards — the fir takes twice as long to grow — until you remember that a Texas farm is growing on expensive land near a big city, while a North Carolina farm is growing at altitude on ground that suits little else. What Texas gains in growing time it gives back in land.

Where the gap really shows is in a pre-cut fir on a Texas lot. That tree was cut on a North Carolina mountainside and trucked down, and the haulage is in the price. If you want a Fraser fir and you are in Texas, you are paying for the journey; if you want one and you are anywhere near the mountains, cutting it yourself is both fresher and usually cheaper.

This matters more than it sounds, because the three are not comparable and no farm explains its method to you before you are standing in the field with a saw.

• By the foot. You measure the tree and multiply. Sunset Hill near Fort Worth asks $12 a foot; Devine Acres outside San Antonio asks $20 a foot plus tax. Same method, and nearly double the rate.
• One flat price. Pond Hill near Canton charges $89 for any cut-your-own tree, whatever its height, as Brown’s in Pennsylvania does at $84. Good value if you want a big tree and poor value if you want a small one.
• By a floor for each size band. Haynie’s Green Acres near Fort Worth publishes four bands and every one says starting at — $49.99 for a tabletop, $124.99 at 6–8 ft, $189.99 at 8½–10 ft and $449.99 at 11–12 ft. A floor is not a price: the farm’s own email of 12 October 2026 says a 10 to 12 ft Fraser fir can reach $699.99, the dearest tree any farm has given us.

A seven-foot tree shows what that does to a bill. At Sunset Hill it is $84. At Pond Hill it is $89. At Devine Acres it is $140 before tax. The same tree, within one state, for two-thirds as much again at one farm as at another — and the cheapest of the three is the one charging by the foot, not the one charging flat.

Then there is the gate. Devine Acres charges $11.95 admission and puts up to $50 of it back against the tree, so it is nearly free if you buy and a real cost if you only look. Haynie’s says plainly that it charges no admission, and entry at Elgin near Austin is free all season. Worth knowing before you drive out with four children.

80 more farms publish a price but do not say which season it is for, or still show last year’s. They are here because a price with a label on it is more use than none, and each one comes off this list as soon as the farm posts 2026. None of them is counted in the figures at the top of the page.

Two things stand out. Oregon and Washington are the cheapest places to cut a fir: noble, grand and Douglas fir run $6 to $14 a foot where they grow, and several farms ask $50 for any tree. And one price for any tree is normal in the Northwest and in New Jersey, at $50 to $140.

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• Card fees. Clawson’s and Panoramic View near Boone both add $4 to a card transaction. On one tree that is worth bringing cash for.
• Sales tax. Elk River Evergreens, Gehman’s and Frog Hollow in Lancaster County, Bear Swamp and Shale Hills in New Jersey, Evergreen Acres in Virginia, Bois D’Arc in Texas and Bacon’s in Washington say their prices include it. Everywhere else, assume it is on top.
• Entry. Free at almost every Christmas tree farm we list. That is not true of pumpkin season, so it is worth saying. The exception is booking: a few farms charge to reserve a cutting slot.
• Nothing for the cutting. Saws are lent free at every farm that lets you cut your own, and baling, netting and loading are usually included — Honeytree charges $2 for netting and Hladky’s near Eugene $5 for baling. Several farms will drill the trunk for a spike stand at no charge.
• Extras that are not the tree. Santa photos at Spring Creek are $15 for a family of up to six; Dewberry charges $10 to load the tree onto your car. Neither is compulsory.

Every figure on this page is on that farm’s card on this site, which says where it came from — the farm’s own website, its Facebook page or Google listing, or an email from the farm — and when we read it. We re-read them all on 6 Nov 2026. A price counts as 2026 only when the farm puts this season on it or tells us so; anything else is in the “no year” section with its label, and none of those goes into the figures at the top. Nothing here is an estimate, an average from another website or a guess.

The “half the farms” figures are the middle half of the farms with a 2026 price for that height, counting a farm that prices by species at the middle of its range. Prices change, and a farm that sells out of tall trees may stop quoting for them. If you find a price here that no longer matches the farm, say so and it gets fixed the same day.

• Christmas card photoslight, outfits, farm rules
• Tree size calculatorwhat height fits your ceiling
• What a real Christmas tree costsyou are here
• Fraser fir vs Douglas fir vs balsamwhich tree to pick
• Virginia pine vs Leyland cypressthe southern trees
• Which tree smells bestscent, species by species
• Getting it hometying it to the car
• Disposal and recyclingwhere to take it afterwards
• When to put it upand when to take it down
• How long a tree lastsand how to keep it
• Christmas tree farms in North CarolinaFraser fir country
• Houston, Texaspine and cypress
• Texaspine and cypress, five metros
• PennsylvaniaLancaster and York
• New JerseyNorth, Central and South Jersey
• WashingtonSeattle to Spokane
• OregonPortland, Salem, Eugene
• MichiganGrand Rapids to Ann Arbor
• VirginiaNorthern Virginia and Richmond