One listing that is not what the directories say
Tricolor Tree Farm, 1480 Hall Road, West Chester · 610-269-1034 ·
sales@tricolortree.com. Listed in the Chester County Christmas tree directories, and it is not
a Christmas tree farm. Its own site calls the business a “Large Tree Transplanting
Specialist” and sells moving grown trees into gardens — “We can create
instant shade with a new tree” — with photographs of tricolor beech, weeping
beech, Crimson King maple, fastigiate white pine, American holly and pin oak. The words
“Christmas trees” and “cut your own” appear on the page exactly once
each, in its meta keywords, which is almost certainly how it came to be in a Christmas
tree directory at all. Worth ringing if you want a semi-mature tree planted; not somewhere to
cut a Christmas tree.
Three more Chester County places sell pre-cut trees only, so they are not on the list
above either: Farmer’s Daughter Farm Market at Spring City, Buck Run Evergreen
Farms at West Chester, and Wiggins’ own lot on
West Chester Pike. A lot is a fine way to buy a tree; it just is not a field you walk.
Chester County Christmas tree questions
Where can you cut your own Christmas tree in Chester County, PA?
6 farms publish enough to plan around, and Chester has something neither Lancaster nor York has: two farms with a 2026 season and a price list up at the same time. Westlake at Pottstown charges by the foot and prints every band; Old Stone at Landenberg charges a flat $100 and opens every day once Thanksgiving is past; Clark’s at Cochranville is open seven days a week with five species of fir, and dogs on a lead everywhere but the gift shop; Wiggins runs two fields and a pre-cut lot and grows trees from two feet up; Marsh Creek at Elverson has five species over two hundred acres; and Schmidt’s at Landenberg is open seven days with four firs, a blue spruce and two live reindeer. Eight more farms exist in the county and publish nothing we could read.
When do Chester County Christmas tree farms open in 2026?
Three farms have a 2026 date, and all three open on Saturday 21 November 2026. Westlake says “2026 TREEdition Season Dates: November 21 – December 19, 2026” and opens Thursday to Sunday, 9 to 5. Old Stone opens 21 and 22 November, closes for Thanksgiving week, and reopens on Friday 27 November daily until the trees are sold out. Clark’s is the third: its website gives a rule rather than a date — it opens the weekend before Thanksgiving — so we wrote to ask, and the farm replied on 29 October that it opens Saturday 21 November. Two farms still publish only a rule: Wiggins opens on “Black Friday”, which is 27 November, and Schmidt’s on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is the same day — but those two dates are our arithmetic from their rules, not dates they have given. Only Marsh Creek still shows an older season, the 2025 one. Ring that one.
How much is a Christmas tree in Chester County?
Chester publishes more real prices than Lancaster and York together. Westlake charges by the foot and the rate depends on the field: Canaan fir is $18 a foot cut from a first-year harvest field, $12 a foot from a final harvest field, and $16 a foot fresh pre-cut; Concolor fir is $12. Old Stone charges a flat $100 for a pre-cut tree or one you cut yourself, though it does not say whether that figure is per tree or per foot. Clark’s charges by the foot and varies the rate by species, but when we asked for the figures the farm told us there were too many to list and it would rather not — so that one is a phone call, not a gap. The other three publish nothing. For comparison, Brown’s in York is $84 for any field tree whatever its size, and our what a tree costs page collects every real list we hold.
Why does Westlake charge $12 and $18 a foot for the same tree?
Because of which field it comes out of, and it is the clearest example on the site of something most farms never explain. A first-year harvest field is being cut for the first time, so every tree in it has had its full growth shaped for this season — that is the $18 Canaan fir. A final harvest field is being cleared, so what stands in it is what nobody chose in earlier years — that is the $12 Canaan fir, a third less for the same species. On a 7 ft tree the difference is $126 against $84. The farm also rates its own availability, and the cheap field is the one marked “good” where the others read “excellent”, so if you are going for the $12 field, go early.
Is Chester County or Lancaster County better for cutting your own tree?
Lancaster still has more farms — nine against six — and it has the tagging tradition, with free tagging from 1 October at one farm and 31 October at another, which Chester does not do at all. Lancaster is the better trip if you want to claim a tree weeks early or to choose between eleven species. Chester is better on price and on honesty about price: two farms here print 2026 figures, three say how they charge, and one of them explains why the same species costs two different amounts. Chester also has the only farm in either county open seven days a week, Clark’s, and the only trees sold as small as two feet, at Wiggins. The two counties are next door to each other, so you can have both.
Can I bring my dog?
Clark’s is the only one of the six that gives a policy, and the farm set out its terms to us on 29 October: dogs must be on a lead, aggressive dogs are not welcome, and no dog goes into the gift shop — which is worth knowing, because the shop is 3,000 sq ft of the visit and somebody will be waiting outside with the dog. The other five Chester farms say nothing either way. Ring first if it matters.
Which Chester County farm is open on a weekday?
Four of the six, and they are not equally convenient. Clark’s is open Monday to Sunday all season, though weekdays start at 1pm, and it recommends them: “It is much less crowded during the week!” Schmidt’s is also open seven days, from noon on weekdays and from 8am at the weekend. Old Stone is open daily, 8am to 4pm, once Thanksgiving week is past. Westlake counts Thursday as a weekday and is shut Monday to Wednesday. Wiggins’ two fields are weekends only, but its pre-cut lot on West Chester Pike is open until 9pm six days a week, which is the latest anything in the county trades.