If you are celebrating Christmas in Chicago this year and googled “Christmas tree farm near me” you are in the right place. There are many Christmas tree farms in the Chicago area to cut your own Christmas tree. You can also visit a Christmas tree farm to purchase a pre-cut tree.

Christmas Tree Farms in the Chicago Area

Even though the weather is getting colder, there are still plenty of fun to be had outdoors this November and December including ice skating, looking at holiday light displays, and visiting a Christmas tree farm to choose and cut your own Christmas tree (or enjoy the ambiance and buy a fresh pre-cut tree if you prefer).

Most Christmas farms open on Thanksgiving Day or the Friday after Thanksgiving but a few open the weekend before. I recommend visiting early in the season for the best selection.

Below is a list of all the Christmas tree farms in and near Chicago (listed in order of distance from downtown Chicago). I have included all the information you need to plan your visit, including addresses, dates and times, prices and more. Note: Make sure to check the farm’s website for any updates.

Cut Your Own Christmas Tree Farms Near Chicago

These farms allow visitors to choose and cut their own Christmas tree (or get a fresh pre-cut tree if you prefer).

Abbey Farms

At Abbey Farms you can cut your own tree or purchase a pre-cut tree. They have precut fir trees up to 12+ feet and U-cut Pines and Spruces up to 8 feet. See website to make reservations, facebook page or call 630-966-7775 for more information.

Address: 2855 Hart Road, Aurora, IL 60502 (about 39 miles of downtown Chicago)

Dates: November 23 to December 23, 2024

Hours: 7 days a week 10am-7pm (last vehicle out into the field at 5pm). Reservations required for the first 4 weeks of the season.

Prices: Pricing on precut trees is by the foot, all trees will be tagged with size and price. U-cut pricing can be found on their website.

Anderson Tree Farm

Anderson Tree Farm is a working farm where you can buy a fresh pre-cut tree or cut your own tree. Shake & wrap are provided along with free hot chocolate & popcorn. See their website, facebook page or call 815-436-2140 for more information.

Address: 508 W. Route 126, Plainfield, IL 60544 (about 41 miles southwest of downtown Chicago)

When: TBD.

Pine-Apple Farm

Pine-Apple Farm offers cut your own pines firs and spruces trees. They can help load and tie your tree onto your vehicle and will have baling cord available if you prefer to tie it yourself.

They also sell fresh, pre-cut fraser firs cut but just before Thanksgiving. They are kept sitting in buckets of water and should hold their needles throughout the holiday season.

Visit their website or call (847) 639-3248 for more information.

Address: 309 Three Oaks Rd., Cary, IL 60013 (45 miles northwest from downtown Chicago)

Dates: TBD.

Hours: 9am until 4pm on weekends only

Prices: Cut Your Own Tree: Pines: $70, Firs and Spruces: $90. Fresh, Pre-Cut Fraser Firs 7′ thru 12′ are individually priced by height. Prices includes tax, shaking and baling. Cash and checks preferred but credit card are accepted for a small processing fee.

Cupola House Tree Farm

Cupola House Tree Farm is a traditional family Christmas tree farm along the Kankakee River State Park selling both cut-your-own and precut trees. The standard 7′-8′ height is their most plentiful size for cut-your-own, but smaller trees (and some bigger) are also available. They will also have precut trees up to 10′ tall too, which are always fresh and premium quality. They provide saws and rope, and free tree shaking and free tree baling. They also offer a big selection of homegrown wreaths, porch pots, and arrangements.

See website or call 815-934-9433 for more information.

Address: 4030 N 3000W Rd, Bourbonnais, IL 60914 (about 58 miles southwest from downtown Chicago)

Dates: Opening on Thanksgiving Day 9-1, then Friday, November 29, 2024 from 8:30-5:00

Hours: 8:30-5:00 on weekends (and Friday after Thanksgiving) and 9:30-5:00 on weekdays. Photo shoots must be pre-scheduled for non-business hours.

Prices: U-cut fir and spruce, $10.50 per foot; U-cut pine, $9.40 per foot. Precut trees individually priced. Tree prices include free tree shaking and free tree baling. Cash or checks only.

Lee’s Trees

Lee’s Trees is a small choose and harvest Christmas tree farm located on 14 acres 10 miles west of the Fox Valley in western Kane County. They are a full-service family farm offering both choose and cut your own tree and also selling pre-cut trees harvested from their two Wisconsin farms on a weekly basis to ensure freshness.

For cut your own trees choose from 4′-8′ Scotch pine, White pine, Canaan fir, Fraser fir, Balsam fir, and Norway spruce. They do not have choose and cut trees taller than 8′, as they sell out every year. Pre-cut trees range from table top to 13′ Fraser fir, Balsam fir, Canaan fir, White pine, and lightly sheared old-fashioned Balsam fir from northern Wisconsin.

They are also pet friendly so you can bring your pets to take photos. See their website or call 630-365-2116 for types of trees sold and more information.

Dates: Opens November 24, 2024 and continues the Friday after Thanksgiving and weekends through December 21, 2024 or sold out.

Hours: 9:00 – 4:30 on weekends and Friday after Thanksgiving only.

Address: 45W002 Lees Road, Lily Lake, IL 60151 (about 59 miles west of downtown Chicago)

Prices: Trees priced are individually based on size, species, and quality. The average price of choose and cut trees is $90 (which includes shaking it clean, baling it up, and helping you load it at no charge). Average price of a 7′-8′ pre-cut tree: Balsam Fir – $85-$90, Fraser Fir – $110-$140, White Pine – $80-$85. Credit cards are accepted.

Larson’s Family Farm

Lartson’s Family Farm offers about eighteen acres of cut-your-own Christmas trees in varieties of evergreens:Caanan Fir (Like Fraizer Fir), White pine, Concolor Fir ( limited supply), Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, and Scotch Pine. They provide visitors with saws (or bring your saw) for cutting trees. As a free service after trees have been cut, if desired, they shake out excess needles and will bail your tree with a net that makes transporting the tree much easier. They also sell handmade evergreen wreaths or lengths of roping. Using their own greens, they make three sizes of fresh evergreen wreaths, decorating them in seasonal colors and natural pine cones. They also sell evergreen roping you can use to drape on your staircases, doorways, or entryways and can fill custom orders of wreaths and roping with an order in advance. Pets not allowed. Their heated Barn Store will be open this year and will be selling affordably priced “Second Hand Rose” goodies and gifts for all ages as well homemade cookies. Update: Trees are averaging up to 7 ft tall. They have White pine, Scotch pine, Caanan fir, Concolor fir trees.

See website or call 815-786-2249 for more information.

Address: 4404 Somonauk Rd, Sandwich, IL 60548 See their website for detailed directions (about 60 miles west of downtown Chicago)

Dates: Open Friday after Thanksgiving Day through Sunday, December 8, 2024. They are closed during rain and please call when snowing 815-786-2249.

Hours: They have special cutting hours on Friday after Thanksgiving Day from 9:00am-4:00pm. Regular hours are 2pm-4pm Tuesday-Friday, and 9am-4pm each Saturday and Sunday. They are closed on Mondays.

Prices: All Christmas trees are $65 which includes tax, shaking dead needles out and netting for easy transportation. Handmade Wreaths range from $25 for a 12 inch undecorated to $45 for their largest 30 inch ring decorated. Tree disposal bags are $3. They accept cash and checks only. NO CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS.

Camelot Christmas Tree Farm

Camelot Christmas Tree Farm has choose and cut and pre-cut Christmas trees available for sale in different varieties. Saws are provided and they also provide twine to secure the tree to your car. Dogs are allowed if they are well behaved and remain on a leash.

See their website, facebook page or call 1-815-756-6599 for more information.

Address: 16380 Somonauk Rd, DeKalb, IL 60115 (about 61 miles west of downtown Chicago)

Dates: Opens Friday after Thanksgiving at 9:00 am.

Hours: Open daily Saturday – Sunday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Monday – Friday noon – 4 p.m. (Friday after Thanksgiving, open at 9:00 a.m.)

Prices: All Choose & Cut and Pre-Cut Christmas Trees are $80.00. Free Shaking & Bailing is included. Wreaths, Roping and Swags are also for available for purchase. They accept cash or check only.

Richardson Adventure Farm

At Richardson Adventure Farm you can choose and harvest your own Christmas Tree. They have over 50,000 trees of many varieties and sizes of trees spread over 75 acres.

On weekends, enjoy a free wagon ride to and from the fields and they will even haul your tree for you, shake your tree to get the loose needles out and bale it in plastic netting to keep it manageable for the ride to your home. Your tree is tagged and you receive a numbered receipt to preserve the identity of the tree while you go inside to enjoy a free hot chocolate or coffee.
There are hundreds of fresh wreaths and decorations inside for sale along with fresh, homemade donuts.

Address: 9407 Richardson Rd, Spring Grove, IL 60081 (about 65 miles northwest of downtown Chicago)

Dates: Open the day after Thanksgiving

Hours: See website, facebook page or call (815) 675-9729 for exact hours.

Tammen Treeberry Farm

Tammen Treeberry Farm is one of the largest choose and cut Christmas tree farms in Illinois. They grow about 160 acres of Christmas trees- mostly Douglas-fir, Canaan fir, and Fraser fir. They also have some white pine and Scotch pine trees.

See their website, facebook page or call 815-458-6264 for more information.

Address: 37131 Essex Road, Wilmington, IL 60481 (They are located 1 mile east of Braidwood on Rte 113 and 3 1/2 miles south on Essex Road. See their website for detailed directions) (about 68 miles southwest from downtown Chicago)

Dates: Opens the day after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 29, 2024.

Hours: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily

Prices: The price is $65 for any tree you choose and cut yourself. If you want the tree shaken and baled, there is a $10 charge for that.

Ben’s Christmas Tree Farm

Ben’s Christmas Tree Farm has been growing and nurturing 100% hand-pruned firs and pines since 1982 on 55 serene, rolling acres in McHenry County. They have thousands of trees in 9 varieties of firs and pines, from 6 to 12 feet tall. This year, we have a good selection of fraser fir, balsam fir, canaan fir, norway spruce, and white pine up to 8 feet tall. They use organic farming practices, and their farm is 100% herbicide-free and pesticide-free. They will provide you with saws and twine at no charge, bring back your tree from the field on one of their wagons, and provide help tying the tree onto your car. They also sell a large selection fresh, hand-made wreaths and greens items. Enjoy a visit with Santa as well as a cup of complimentary coffee or hot chocolate in their warming barn. Leashed pets are welcome.

See website or call (630) 279-0216 for more information.

Address: 7719 Ryan Road, Harvard, IL 60033 (Ben’s flagship farm) (about 80 miles northwest from downtown Chicago)

Dates: Open weekends only from November 29-December 8, 2024. To maintain a sustainable harvest, they will only be open for 2 weekends in 2024 and expect to return to a normal schedule in 2025.

Hours: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Santa and Horse-drawn wagon rides (subject to weather) typically available from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Prices: Pines start at $52 ($8 per foot with 6.5 foot minimum), Firs and spruces start at $98 ($15 per foot with 6.5 foot minimum). Cash or checks only.

Williams Tree Farm

Williams Tree Farm is a choose and cut farm and also sells pre-cut trees. They also allow dogs on a leash and have Santa visits during select weekends for the kids.

See their weather or facebook or call 815.624.7579 or 800.423.NOEL for more information.

Address: 4661 Yale Bridge Rd, Rockton, IL 61072 (about 100 miles northwest of downtown Chicago)

Dates: Opening for the season November 16, 2024.

Hours: Open daily 9am-7pm (Open Thanksgiving Day from 9am to 12pm). They also offer Santa visits on select weekends.

Prices: Cut Your Own pricing starts at $22 for pines under 4 feet and goes up to $128 for Spruce & Fir 9 feet and taller. Prices for pre-cut trees start at $11 per foot for pines and $13 per foot for Spruces and Firs and all are tagged. See their pricing page for detailed prices.

Precut Christmas Tree Farms in and Near Chicago

These Christmas tree farms don’t offer cut your own trees but they sell pre-cut trees in a fun farm setting.

Sonny Acres Farm

Sonny Acres Farm sells fresh-cut trees during their Winter Wonderland festivities. You can also walk through their holiday light show, take photos with Santa (on Black Friday and weekends only), enjoy delicious treats including their speciality hot cocoa in their new sweet shop and more.

Check their facebook page and website or call (630) 231-3859 for most current information.

Address: 29W310 North Ave., West Chicago, IL 60185 (about 37 miles west of Chicago)

Dates: Their Big & Bright Trail of Lights Festival, runs November 22 through December 30, 2024

Hours: Monday thru Thursday 11- 7; Friday 11-9; Saturday 9-9; Sunday 9-7

Kroll’s Farm

For years Kroll’s Farm has curated the best fresh cut trees, wreaths, boughs and roping for the holidays from a second generation family-owned farm in Wisconsin. Their tree providers have been growing quality trees since 1974, and have even had their trees displayed in the White House and Wisconsin Capital Building. They will have a variety of FRESH PRECUT trees including: Balsam Fir, Fraser Fir, Canaan Fir, White Pine, Blue Spruce, Black Hills Spruce, Douglas Fir and Concolor Fir. Trees will range in size from 3-5 feet for tabletop or apartment trees and 6-11 feet for most varieties. They also have a select number of trees available in the 12’+ range but please note large trees tend to go early. They will also be selling hand made wreaths, swags, roping and boughs. All trees are pre-cut.

See their website, facebook or call 847-662-5733 for more information.

Address: 13236 W. Townline Rd., Waukegan, IL 60087 (about 44 miles north from downtown Chicago)

Dates: Opens Friday, November 29, 2024

Hours: Open 7 days a week until sold out

Cost: Pricing for an average tree (6-8 feet tall) will be around $15 per foot. This will vary depending on the type, size and grade of tree.

Have you visited any Christmas tree farms near Chicago?