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Arrowhead Acres

Uxbridge, Massachusetts · Worcester County

Opens Nov 27

Opens the Friday after Thanksgiving (Nov 27).

Arrowhead Acres is the big one in the Blackstone Valley: roughly 35,000 balsam, Fraser, and concolor firs across 48 acres and twelve separate fields. You take a saw, pick a field, and walk until a tree stops you.

Every tree is one flat price, and that price covers the cutting, shaking, netting, drilling, and the haul back to your car. There's no pre-tagging anymore, so the good trees go to whoever shows up first — and the farm sold out before Christmas last season.

The facts

• Cut-your-own Balsam firs and Fraser firs
• Friday through Sunday 10–4, running to December 19. Be in the fields by 3:30 — you want the daylight.
• No reservation needed
• Also at the farm: 12 fields to walk, shaking, netting & drilling included

Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site · farm website

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Christmas tree disposal in Massachusetts

The other end of the same trip: when the tree comes down in January, disposal and recycling are a city job and the rules change at the city line — here is who takes it in Boston · Worcester — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Massachusetts?

Not at the farm — getting rid of a tree is a city service, and the rules change at the city line. We read the tree collection page for 2 cities in Massachusetts, linked just above: each one says whether the tree goes out for curbside pickup or to a drop-off site, and what has to come off it before it does.

Is there Christmas tree recycling in Massachusetts?

Not in words we can stand behind. None of the 2 cities we cover in Massachusetts say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree, so we won't tell you it is chipped into mulch. What each city does put in writing is on its page.

Who handles Christmas tree removal once the season is over?

The city, or the county authority that runs collection for it — that is the body every page in that January list is read from, and the only one that can tell you when it is running. Private haulers will take a tree away as well; they are not on this site, because we only write down what a city puts in writing itself.