Fort Worth Christmas tree farm questions
When do Christmas tree farms open near Fort Worth in 2026?
Three of the four open on Friday 27 November 2026, the day after Thanksgiving. Haynie’s Green Acres opens at 9am and is then open every day — Saturdays 9am to 5pm, Sundays 12 to 5pm, weekdays 2 to 5pm. Radde Tannenbaum opens at 3pm and runs Mondays and Fridays 3pm to dark, Saturdays 9am to dark and Sundays 1pm to dark, closed Tuesday to Thursday. Sunset Hill opens at weekends only and publishes no hours at all. None of those three names a closing date — all three run until they sell out, which in Texas happens, so the Thanksgiving weekend is the safe time to go for a big tree. The Lazy K at Godley publishes no dates and no year on anything, so ring it on 817-992-6818.
How much is a Christmas tree near Fort Worth?
Between $49.99 and about $700, and which end you land at depends almost entirely on what sort of tree you want. Sunset Hill at Alvarado charges $12 a foot to cut your own, the cheapest rate per foot we have found anywhere in Texas or North Carolina — a 7 ft tree is $84 and a 10 ft tree $120. Radde Tannenbaum at Meridian asks $75 to $140 for a 6 to 9 ft Afghan pine you cut yourself, or $99 to $189 for a pre-cut Fraser fir of the same height. Haynie’s at Crowley publishes a ladder of starting prices — $49.99 tabletop, $124.99 at 6 to 8 ft, $189.99 at 8½ to 10 ft and $449.99 at 11 to 12 ft — and told us a 10 to 12 ft Fraser fir can reach $699.99. The pattern is the same everywhere in Texas: a Texas-grown pine or cypress is cheap, and a Fraser fir has been trucked from North Carolina and is not.
Which farm is closest to Fort Worth?
Haynie’s Green Acres at Crowley, about fifteen minutes south of the city — the closest Christmas tree farm to any big Texas city we cover. The Lazy K at Godley is about thirty minutes south-west, and Sunset Hill at Alvarado thirty-five south. Radde Tannenbaum is a different sort of trip: an hour and twenty south-west at Meridian, in Bosque County, nearer Waco than Fort Worth. Go there for the Afghan pine and the free hayride, not because it is convenient.
What kind of Christmas tree grows near Fort Worth?
Pine and cypress, not fir — fir will not take the Texas summer. Radde Tannenbaum grows Afghan pine, also called eldarica: long soft needles, an open airy shape and real tolerance of heat and drought. The Lazy K grows the same pine plus Leyland cypress and Arizona cypress, which makes it the one place here you can stand the two cypresses side by side. The Fraser firs on the lots at Haynie’s, Sunset Hill and Radde are all pre-cut and trucked down from North Carolina, which is why they cost two or three times as much. If you want to know what the southern trees are actually like in a room, the southern trees compared goes through them, and North Carolina is where the firs come from.
Is there a Christmas tree farm in Fort Worth itself?
No, and there is not one in Dallas, Austin or Houston either — tree farms need acreage, so they sit outside the city. Haynie’s at Crowley is the nearest thing to one at fifteen minutes out. If you are in the north or east of the metro, the Dallas farms may be no further.
Do Fort Worth Christmas tree farms charge admission?
No. Haynie’s Green Acres says plainly that there is no admission charge, and none of the other three charges to walk in either. Radde Tannenbaum goes further than any farm we list: the hayride both ways, the saws, the tree shaking, the removal bag, the twine, the coffee or punch, a colouring book and a cookie or candy cane per child are all free. The Lazy K includes a disposal bag with every tree. That is not universal in Texas — Devine Acres near San Antonio charges to walk in, and Country Barn in Pennsylvania charges $6.50 just to reach the trees.
Which farm is open on a weekday?
Haynie’s every weekday, 2 to 5pm — a narrow window, but it is only fifteen minutes out. Radde Tannenbaum opens Mondays and Fridays from 3pm until dark and is closed Tuesday to Thursday, which is an unusual pattern worth checking before you drive an hour and twenty. Sunset Hill is weekends only, and The Lazy K publishes no hours at all.
What $12 a foot actually means
Texas farms price trees three different ways, and the three farms on this page that publish
a price use one each, which makes comparing them harder than it looks. The fourth,
The Lazy K, publishes figures with no year on them and is left out of
this comparison for that reason.
- By the foot. Sunset Hill charges
$12 a foot, so a 6 ft tree is $72, a 7 ft tree $84 and a 10 ft tree $120. The price
rises in a straight line, which is unusual — nearly everywhere else, each extra foot
costs more than the last.
- By a range for a height band. Radde prices
Afghan pine at $75 to $140 for anything from 6 to 9 ft, so the figure depends on the
individual tree as well as its height.
- By a floor for each height band. Haynie’s
publishes four bands and every one says starting at: $49.99 for a tabletop, $124.99 at
6 to 8 ft, $189.99 at 8½ to 10 ft and $449.99 at 11 to 12 ft. A floor is not a price,
and the farm told us a 10 to 12 ft Fraser fir can reach $699.99.
For a tall tree the gap is enormous. Ten feet costs $120 at Sunset Hill and starts
at $449.99 at Haynie’s — but the first is a Texas-grown tree you cut yourself and the
second is a Fraser fir that was cut on a North Carolina mountainside and trucked eleven hundred
miles. You are largely paying for the journey.
What a tree costs sets
every published price list we hold side by side.
How these were checked
Each listing comes from the farm itself, and every card carries the date it was last read.
Two of the 4 told us their dates and prices by email rather than publishing them:
Sunset Hill on 26 September and Haynie’s on 12 October, and both cards say so.
Radde Tannenbaum publishes its own calendar and prices,
which makes it the only farm here you can check without writing to anyone.
We do not take dates, prices or open-or-closed status from the growers’ association
directory at texaschristmastrees.com. It was wrong twice this season, listing farms as closed
that were trading normally — Haynie’s was one of them.
Two farms near Fort Worth are not on this page, and it is worth saying why.
Mainstay Farm at Cleburne has posted a full 2026 season, 27 November to 21 December, but
states plainly that it will not offer choose-and-cut this year — pre-cut North Carolina
Fraser fir only. The Lazy K at Godley showed an undated “closed for the
season” notice when we could last read it, and its site now refuses us altogether, so it
is unread rather than unposted.
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