East Texas Christmas tree farm questions
When do East Texas Christmas tree farms open in 2026?
Dellinger’s at Center, east of Nacogdoches, opened its Christmas store on Friday 23 October, with a small field of Virginia pine to cut beside it. 7 Tree Farm near Lufkin opens on Saturday 14 November, Athens on Friday 20 November, E-5 at Henderson on Saturday 21 November, and Dadda G’s at Mount Enterprise on Sunday 22 November, for pre-cut Fraser fir; its field opens on 27 November. Solstice at Big Sandy opens on Wednesday 25 November. Plantation Pines in Tyler, Merket near Longview and Iron Hill near Crockett open on Thanksgiving Day, and the other five on Friday 27 November. Wish Granted at Mineola has not posted its 2026 dates yet.
Which Christmas tree farm is closest to Tyler?
Plantation Pines, on County Road 429 on the south-west side of the city. North Star at Lindale is about 20 minutes north, Native Branch at Brownsboro 25 minutes west, and Hegar at Troup, Solstice and Revere at Big Sandy about half an hour.
Which East Texas farm is cheapest?
North Star at Lindale charges a flat $60 for any tree, whatever its size, the lowest flat price in Texas. E-5 at Henderson charges $10 a foot for 2026, and Athens $75 to $85 for a 5 to 6 ft Virginia pine. Solstice at Big Sandy lists $10 to $14 a foot for Virginia pine and $14 to $20 a foot for Fraser fir, though its FAQ gives no year. Plantation Pines prices every tree in the field. The rest publish no figure, so ring before a long drive if price matters.
Which farms are open every day?
Athens, every day from 20 November to 20 December, sunrise to sunset. Merket opens weekdays 3 to 6pm and weekends 9am to 6pm, right through to Christmas Eve, and Plantation Pines opens weekday evenings 5:30 to 8:30pm, for pre-cut Fraser fir only. 7 Tree opens Wednesday to Sunday, into the evening.
What kind of tree can you cut in East Texas?
Virginia pine, almost everywhere: it is what Athens, E-5, North Star, Native Branch, Revere, Plantation Pines, Solstice, Dadda G’s, Dellinger’s and Wish Granted grow, because fir will not take the heat. Plantation Pines, Revere, Solstice and Dadda G’s also sell pre-cut Fraser fir from North Carolina; Dellinger’s has none this year.
Pine country
East Texas has more Christmas tree farms than any other part of the state, and it is easy to
see why: this is the piney woods, with the rain a Virginia pine likes and the sandy soil it
grows in. Most of the farms here are small, family-run and open for a few weekends, so the
opening weekend matters — Solstice and
Hegar both stop when the field is empty.
Several are farms for more than one season. 7 Tree,
Merket and Hegar grow
blackberries, Plantation Pines has tulips in spring, and
E-5 has flowers in June and a pumpkin patch in the autumn.
How these were checked
Each listing comes from the farm itself — its own website, or, for the farms that keep
only a Facebook page, the farm’s own posts — read on 6 November 2026 and again on 12
November, and every card
carries the date it was last read. We do not take dates or open-or-closed status from the
growers’ association directory. Where a farm states its season as a rule rather than a
date, the card says so and gives the 2026 date the rule falls on.
Wish Granted Farm is listed without dates: it had not posted its 2026 tree dates when we last
looked, on 12 November, so its card gives last season’s, marked as 2025. Three farms some
lists still carry are not here: Watson Christmas Tree Farm at Tyler closed in 2016,
Danville Farms at Kilgore closed after the 2025 season, and C and C at Lindale is
now North Star.
Spot something that has gone stale? Say so and it gets fixed.