Whether you want to cut your own tree, pick a live tree and have it cut for you, buy a tree already cut or buy a living tree you can plant, this page provides detailed listings of Washington State Christmas Tree Permits for National Forests's choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms, places to buy pre-cut (also called pre-harvested and fresh-cut) trees, stands, sleigh rides, hay rides and related winter events and fun. Some listings are for tree farms, others are tree lots, and some only offer hay rides, sleigh rides or other winter events. READ EACH LISTING to know what each facility offers. The farms are listed further down this page, so scroll down the page! Since this service is free and open to ALL Christmas tree farms, not just those who belong to an association or pay for an ad, like almost all other websites do, this is the most complete and current listing available! Help me keep this page complete and up to date, by reporting any corrections needed or suggesting farms to add!
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December 2023: Tree supplies are looking good, but expect prices to be up this year. It's always smart to get to the tree farm early and tag or reserve your tree, if they allow it. Many tree farms allow tagging starting in mid-November.
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On the busiest Christmas tree hunting and bough gathering weeks of the year, Washington's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking for the public's help to protect school trust land trees. Trees and boughs are not available from trust lands, but private you-cut and national forest permits are available. "Cutting a Christmas tree is a great family tradition," said Doug Sutherland, Commissioner of Public Lands. "But people need to remember that cutting trees or boughs from a state forests isn't allowed."
For a $5 fee, you can cut a tree in a national forest. Permits are available for different forests at different locations and with different conditions and restrictions, so be sure to scroll down the page to find the forest closest to you:
There is now a centralized place online to buy a Christmas tree permit in a national forest in any state that has a forest that allows it; see this page on Recreation.gov.
Forest Service Christmas Tree permits go on sale in November. Permits
are $5.00 each and are good for one U-cut tree on the Olympic National
Forest. Permits may be purchased at any
Olympic National Forest office
(you can no longer get one by mail or email; only in person). Credit
cards are now accepted (in person) as well as cash and checks.
You can now
get the Christmas Tree cutting permits online.
See
office locations/hours.
There are many other National Forests that also participate in the Permit Cutting program.
The main information phone number for Christmas tree cutting permits is (425) 783-6000 for Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and the Seattle - Tacoma area. You can now get the Christmas Tree cutting permits online.
The main information phone number for Christmas tree cutting permits is (360) 891-5000 for the Gifford Pinchot and the southern part of the state. Visitors can purchase Christmas tree permits at the following Gifford Pinchot National Forest offices and vendor locations near you. All Forest Service offices will be closed Thanksgiving Day.
Christmas tree cutting permits are now available to purchase at the Naches Ranger Station. Tree permits sell for $5.00 each and allow you to cut up to a maximum tree size of 15 feet or dig a tree to remove as a transplant. Each permit is for one Christmas tree and only two permits can be issued per household. Permits are not refundable. Instructions are given when purchasing a permit along with tree care and transportation tips.
For your convenience, the following businesses are also selling tree permits:
Slim's Market, Many's Chinook Center, Gold Creek Station, Whistlin'
Jack Lodge, and Rimrock Grocery Store in the Naches area; Helms True Value
Hardware and Save-On Foods in Selah, and at Right Hardware and Hyperspud
Sports in Yakima. District Ranger Randy Shepard. Naches Ranger District
10237 U.S. Highway 12 Naches, WA 98937 The office phone number is (509)
653-1400.
Permits are available at all Forest Service offices and various
businesses in Okanogan, Chelan, Kittitas, and Yakima Counties. Permits are
not refundable. You can now get the Christmas Tree cutting permits online.
Christmas tree permits are on sale for $5 each at all
ranger stations and the forest headquarters in Wenatchee. The $5 permit
allows a family to cut a tree or dig a live transplant tree. Permits may
be purchased in person or by mail. For those who can't make it into any of
our offices during daily business hours many local businesses are also
selling Christmas tree permits.
See the bottom of this page for local vendors selling Christmas tree
permits.
The main information phone number for Christmas tree cutting permits is (541) 278-3716 for the Umatilla National Forest and the eastern southern part of the state area around the tri-cities.
Please be careful when you cut a tree or some boughs. Cutting boughs can destroy decades-old trees that are well on their way to becoming forests. When the top branches are cut off a young tree, it is more vulnerable to disease that ultimately can destroy it.
As always, DNR officials are asking private citizens to help thwart theft by calling the county sheriff or a toll-free DNR hotline, 1-800-527-3305, if they suspect trees or boughs are being cut from trust lands. Penalties for damaging or stealing trust land evergreens can include fines and jail time. The more serious cases are turned over to a county prosecutor who cooperates with DNR
You Must Obtain a Harvest Permit for the Following:
You may apply for a permit at the Sheriff's Office for no fee. You will need to know the land description, hauler's information, and landowner's information for this permit, but can take the permit with you and bring it back filled out. See https://www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/267/Sheriff
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