Christmas tree farms in Texas

Almost all of them open on Friday 27 November, the day after Thanksgiving, and then run at weekends until they sell out. Three open the weekend before — Elgin near Austin, Devine Acres near San Antonio and Kadee Farm near Dallas, all on Saturday 21 November — and Pipe Creek opens on Monday 23 November. It and Kadee Farm near Dallas are the two that then open every day rather than only at weekends.

That bunching matters more in Texas than it does in the mountains. A farm here grows perhaps a few thousand trees, opens for four or five weekends and stops when the field is empty: Brushy Creek near Bowie sold out of cut-your-owns inside three weekends last season. If you want a tall tree, the opening weekend is not an optional nicety.

Three farms, all of them east of the city, and not one of them has published a price. The full Austin page has the hours, what each farm offers and why the prices are missing.

• Elgin CHRISTmas Tree Farm, Elgin — Sat 21 Nov to Sun 20 Dec. Open every day once Thanksgiving week is past — Friday to Sunday 9am–5pm, Monday to Thursday 12–5pm — and closed 23 to 26 November. Entry is free all season. Serving central Texas for over 35 years, and the farm most people near Austin mean when they say they are going to cut a tree. 35 min east of Austin. Hours are from the farm’s own 2026 calendar, released 24 October. Prices are still the gap — its price page has said “in the Fall” for a month. Food vendors and attractions run on Saturdays, Sundays and Thanksgiving Friday only.
• Evergreen Farms, Elgin — Opens Fri 27 Nov. The Friday after Thanksgiving and Saturdays 10am–5pm, Sundays 1–5pm, Monday to Friday 3–5pm. Cut your own with a saw from the farm. 35 min east of Austin. The fullest published timetable of any farm outside Houston. Prices are not usable: the pricing link leads to a page headed “2025 prices” with no figures under it at all. Saws are provided, and the farm shakes and nets the tree for you.
• Lee County Christmas Trees, Lincoln — Opens Fri 27 Nov. Then every Saturday and Sunday until Christmas Eve — one of the longest seasons in the state. Two you-cut varieties this year, Murray cypress and Virginia pine. 45 min east of Austin. Their website loads again but still shows the 2024 season, so the dates above come from the farm’s own Facebook post of 23 September. Prices are not published anywhere; phone the farm.

Two farms, one of them open daily.

• Devine Acres Farm, Devine — Sat 21 Nov to Sun 20 Dec. Weekends and Black Friday. Cut your own Leyland or Arizona cypress in the field, 10am–5pm with the last entry at 5pm, or take a pre-cut North Carolina Fraser fir from the tree park. From $20 a foot plus tax. 45 min south-west of San Antonio. This is a paid-admission event farm, not only a tree farm: tickets were $13.95 when we looked on 22 October, up from $11.95 a week earlier, and Santa is now included. Up to $50 of the admission comes off the tree — but nothing comes back if you leave without one.
• Pipe Creek Christmas Tree Farm, Pipe Creek — Opens Mon 23 Nov. Open daily, 11am–5:45pm, closed Thanksgiving Day — one of only two Texas farms we list that open every day rather than at weekends. Farm-grown trees, and Fraser fir wreaths. 45 min north-west of San Antonio. Prices are not published. There is a prices link on the farm’s site but no figures behind it.

Three farms. Two are about twenty minutes south; the third is an hour and twenty south-west, and nearer Waco than Fort Worth. It is the only Texas metro where every farm publishes a price, and the spread runs from $12 a foot to $449.99. The full Fort Worth page has the hours, the prices and what each farm provides.

• Sunset Hill Tree Farm, Alvarado — Opens Fri 27 Nov. Weekends until sold out. $12 a foot to cut your own — the cheapest rate per foot we hold anywhere — and pre-cut North Carolina fir from about $16 a foot. Dogs welcome on a lead; cash, card or Venmo. 35 min south of Fort Worth. The dates came to us by email from the farm on 26 September; its website carries none.
• Haynie’s Green Acres, Crowley — Opens Fri 27 Nov, 9am. Saturdays 9am–5pm, Sundays 12–5pm, weekdays 2–5pm. Hayrides out to the field, a gift shop, and Santa each day of Thanksgiving weekend 2–4pm. $49.99 for a tabletop tree, rising to $449.99 for an 11 to 12 ft fir — every band on the farm’s list is a starting price, and it told us a 10 to 12 ft Fraser can reach $699.99. No admission fee. 15 min south of Fort Worth. Everything above came directly from the farm by email on 12 October, and its website now carries the same hours under a “2026 farm hours” heading. The opening date and the prices are still only in the email.
• Radde Tannenbaum Farm, Meridian — Opens Fri 27 Nov, 3pm. Monday and Friday 3pm–dark, Saturday 9am–dark, Sunday 1pm–dark, closed Tuesday to Thursday — open at either end of the week but not through it. Cut your own Afghan pine, 6 to 9 ft, $75 to $140, or take a pre-cut North Carolina Fraser fir at $99 to $189, priced by height and grade. Saws, hayride, shaking, a removal bag and twine are all free, and so is the coffee. 1 hr 20 south-west of Fort Worth, and closer to Waco. Afghan pine is scarce this year after drought, ice and grasshoppers, so the farm is only cutting a limited number. Two things to know before you drive: everyone must stay in their vehicle in line until there is space to park, and FM 219 is shut for bridge repair — from Whitney or Hillsboro, take SH 22 to Meridian then turn south on FM 1991.

Four farms, and the metro has gone from two to four in a week. Only one is within an hour. The full Dallas page has the hours, the prices and the drive times.

• Kadee Farm, Greenville — Sat 21 Nov to Sat 19 Dec. Monday to Friday 2–8pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am–8pm, closed Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday from 10am. Cut your own Virginia pine — the saw is theirs, no chainsaws, $60 minimum — or take a pre-cut from six or seven varieties running up to 14–16 ft. 50 min north-east of Dallas, the nearest farm to the city and the first in Texas to open. The cut-your-own field closes at 5pm even though the farm stays open to 8. Tree prices beyond the minimum are not published.
• Pond Hill Farm, Canton — Opens Mon 23 Nov, pre-cut only for the first three days; the cut-your-own field opens on Black Friday. Then weekends through December until sold out, Saturdays 10am–6pm and Sundays 12–6pm. $89 flat for any cut-your-own tree from 4 to 12 ft — the cheapest tall tree in Texas — and pre-cut North Carolina Fraser fir from $109. 1 hr east of Dallas, a mile and a half north of I-20. The farm’s page prints no year; we date it to 2026 because 23 and 25 November fall on a Monday and a Wednesday this year and on neither in 2025.
• Elves Christmas Tree Farm, Denison — Opens Fri 27 Nov, 10am. No early sales. Saturdays 10am–5pm, Sundays 1–5pm, Monday to Friday 3–5pm until sold out. Pre-cut Fraser, Noble, Nordmann and Grand fir alongside the field. 1 hr 15 north of Dallas. Prices are not published, and the species in its own field is not named.
• Bois D’Arc Christmas Tree Farm, Telephone — Fri 27 Nov to Sat 19 Dec. Opens 10am the day after Thanksgiving, then Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 10am–6pm — Fridays are new this season. Field trees $120 to $400, or a potted 3-gallon loblolly at $50, $55 decorated. 10% off for military and first responders, and the price on the tag includes tax. 1 hr 45 north-east of Dallas. A long way out — closer to the Oklahoma line than to Dallas. The farm’s hours table also says “by appointment” in one place, so phone before a long drive.

It is too hot. What grows here is Virginia pine, Leyland cypress, Murray cypress, Arizona cypress and Afghan pine, and those are what you cut. They hold a different shape from a fir — softer, denser, less of a classic cone — and the cypresses barely smell, which suits anyone who finds a fir overpowering and disappoints everyone else.

The Fraser firs on sale at Texas farms were cut on a North Carolina mountainside and trucked down, usually days before the farm opens. They are pre-cut, not choose-and-cut, and the haulage is in the price. Sunset Hill sells both and the gap shows: about $12 a foot for its own trees against about $16 a foot for the fir. The southern trees compared goes through what each one is actually like in a room.

These are listed so you know they were checked, not forgotten. None of them has published a 2026 season we can treat as fact, and none is carrying last year’s dates here as though they were this year’s.

• Mainstay Farm, Cleburne, Fort Worth — has now posted 27 November to 21 December, Black Friday and Saturdays 10am–5:30pm, Sundays 11am–5:30pm. It is not on this page because it states plainly that choose-and-cut will not be offered this year — pre-cut North Carolina Fraser fir only.
• The Lazy K, Godley, south-west of Fort Worth — showed an undated “closed for the season” notice and undated prices when we could last read it. Its site now refuses us altogether, so it is unread rather than unposted.
• Jenschke Orchards, Fredericksburg, west of Austin — listed Christmas trees as “November to December” with no year, and showed them as closed. Its site now refuses us too, so this is what we last saw rather than what it says today.
• Seiler’s Christmas Trees, Seguin, east of San Antonio — has not been updated since 2012 by its own copyright line, and shows an undated sold-out notice. We have written to ask whether it still operates.
• Brushy Creek Christmas Trees, Bowie, north-west of Fort Worth — sold out of cut-your-owns inside three weekends last season and said it was holding stock back for this year, but has posted nothing for 2026.

Every farm on this page was read on its own website, Facebook or Instagram on 27 Oct 2026, or told us its dates by email. Two did: Sunset Hill on 26 September and Haynie’s on 12 October, and both say so on their entry.

We do not take dates from the growers’ association directory at texaschristmastrees.com. It was wrong twice this season, listing two farms as closed that were open. Where a farm’s own page could not be read — a broken certificate, a site that will not load — this page says that, rather than reporting it as “nothing posted”.

Dates and prices change. If you find something here that no longer matches the farm, say so and it gets fixed the same day.

• Christmas tree farms in Texasyou are here
• Houston, Texas11 farms, pine and cypress
• What a tree costsevery price list we hold
• Virginia pine vs Leyland cypressthe southern trees
• Fraser fir vs Douglas firwhich tree to pick
• Which tree smells bestscent, species by species
• Getting it hometying it to the car
• Disposal and recyclingwhere to take it afterwards
• North CarolinaFraser fir country
• PennsylvaniaLancaster and York
• New JerseyNorth, Central and South Jersey
• WashingtonSeattle to Spokane
• OregonPortland, Salem, Eugene
• MichiganGrand Rapids to Ann Arbor
• VirginiaNorthern Virginia and Richmond