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The Rocks Christmas Tree Farm

Bethlehem, New Hampshire · Grafton County

Opens Nov 21

Opens November 21.

The Rocks is the Forest Society's 1,400-acre estate in Bethlehem, and cutting a tree here is a White Mountains habit that goes back generations. Every tree is cut-your-own this season — balsam and Fraser fir, roughly four to eight feet — and hand saws and sleds are waiting for you at the barn.

Weekends are the whole outing: horse-drawn wagon rides out to the fields, a fire pit with hot chocolate, s'mores and kettle corn for sale, kids' crafts, and the gift shop and exhibit inside the restored Carriage Barn. Restrooms are heated and accessible with changing stations, leashed dogs are welcome, and they take cards, cash or checks.

Dates are already set: first sale day is Saturday, November 21, then daily from Friday, November 27 through Sunday, December 13, with the gift shop open a week longer. If someone in your group can't get out to the fields, call or email a week ahead and they'll work something out.

The facts

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

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in New Hampshire

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 Manchester — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in New Hampshire?
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 1 city in New Hampshire, 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 New Hampshire?
The one city we cover in New Hampshire says on its own page what becomes of a collected tree, and our page quotes that sentence. Where a city doesn't say, we don't say it either.
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.