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Crystal Spring Tree Farm

Lehighton, Pennsylvania · Carbon County

Opens Nov 27

Opens the Friday after Thanksgiving (Nov 27).

Crystal Spring is the biggest name in eastern Pennsylvania's tree country. The Botek family began selling trees in the 1930s and bought their first ground in the Mahoning Valley in 1964; trees off this farm have stood in the White House Blue Room, at Rockefeller Center, and in the state capitol rotunda in Harrisburg.

For a family the visit is a wagon ride out to the field and a saw — Douglas, Fraser, Turkish and Nordmann fir in the rows, concolor fir and Colorado blue spruce waiting pre-cut. There's a farm store to browse, and nobody minds if you come for the photos and the smell and go home without a tree.

The facts

• Cut-your-own Douglas firs and Fraser firs; pre-cut too
• Opens Black Friday 9–5 and then daily 9–5. The farm hasn't named a closing date yet, though December 23 is the usual last day.
• No reservation needed
• Also at the farm: wagon ride to the field, farm store, hand-made wreaths

Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in Pennsylvania

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 Philadelphia · Pittsburgh — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Pennsylvania?

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 Pennsylvania, 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 Pennsylvania?

Both cities we cover in Pennsylvania say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree, and our pages quote 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.