Christmas tree farms near Enumclaw with dates and prices

As of October 2026, the nearest u-cut Christmas tree farms to Enumclaw with 2026 dates posted are Honeytree Farm and Coates Christmas Trees, both on SE Green Valley Road toward Auburn. Honeytree, about 9 miles from Enumclaw City Hall by road, opens Friday, November 27, 2026 at 9 a.m. and prices trees by the foot, from about $11 for a Douglas fir to $17.50 for a noble; Coates, about 12 miles, opens Saturday, November 21, 2026 at one price for any size, $115.14 by card or $110.61 cash for most firs and $85.22 or $81.60 for a Douglas fir. Wilson Hill in Maple Valley, about 16 miles, tags trees from October 24, with cutting available on its tagging days, and opens its main season on November 21, and Harter's in Buckley, about 10 miles, is on Pierce County's list with a phone number and no 2026 details. The farms with Enumclaw addresses have no website that could be checked for this article.

In 1990 the Seattle Times' list of places to cut your own tree carried four farms with Enumclaw addresses. Its 1995 list had two of them, its 2002 and 2007 lists had none, and in 2007 the only Enumclaw entry was the ranger station selling permits. The Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce's visitor site still says that in December you can "pick up a Christmas tree at any number of U-cut farms in the area" and names four. Three link only to a Facebook page, and the fourth, Johnson Christmas Trees, links to the website of a balsam and Fraser fir farm in Concord, Vermont.

1. Honeytree Farm, SE Green Valley Road, about 9 miles

Honeytree Farm, LLC, 21606 SE Green Valley Road, Auburn, is 11 acres of u-cut and pre-cut trees by its own page. "Every year our farm opens the day AFTER Thanksgiving," the page says, which in 2026 means Friday, November 27 at 9 a.m.; after that it is open 10 a.m. to dark on weekdays and 9 a.m. to dark on weekends. Its directions come from the Auburn end, by the Highway 18 exit for Flaming Geyser State Park; from Enumclaw the shortest route by the routing engine comes up 212th Avenue SE from SE 400th Street and joins Green Valley Road a short way west of the farm, at the corner of 218th; the valley road from the Black Diamond end passes the park's turnoff first and is longer.

For 2026 the page lists five species and prices them by the foot as a guide, each tree tagged and priced on its own: about $11 a foot for Douglas fir, $13 for grand fir and $17.50 for Fraser, noble and Nordmann fir, the same for pre-cut trees. Trees of 9 to 12 feet come from another property, cut weekly, and sell fast. Shaking is free, netting is $2, Santa usually comes the first two weekends from 10:30 to 2, and there are wreaths, garland, kettle corn, a gift shop and the farm's own honey. No professional photo sessions while the farm is open.

Two things to know before you drive. The farm has no phone line, so its Facebook page carries the closing notice. And the u-cut field does not last the season: "Our u-cut fields close sooner than most people expect because they are hit hard the first two weekends we are open," the page says. It sells u-cut trees until its yearly quota is gone and closes when the pre-cut trees run out.

2. Harter's Tree Farm, Buckley, about 10 miles

Harter's South Prairie Tree Farm, 24615 142nd Street E, Buckley, (253) 223-0492, is the nearest Pierce County farm on Pierce County's u-cut list, which on October 14, 2026 still carried a two-season-old warning: "We cannot guarantee that all these locations are operational in the 2024 season." The county's link goes to a Facebook page titled Harter's Tree Farm, Buckley WA, which exists but could not be read for this article, so nothing about its 2026 dates, hours, prices or species could be confirmed. Call first.

3. Coates Christmas Trees, SE Green Valley Road, about 12 miles

Coates Christmas Trees, 17225 SE Green Valley Road, Auburn, (253) 709-6293, is three miles farther down the valley than Honeytree. Its home page already showed the 2026 season on October 14: opening Saturday, November 21, 2026, weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekends 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on Thanksgiving and open 9 to 5 the Friday after, with Santa from 10 to 4 on November 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 and December 5 and 6. In 2025, by Seattle's Child's guide, it opened on November 22, also the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

The pricing is the simplest of the four. One price covers every size, and the page gives it two ways: $115.14 by credit or debit card or $110.61 cash for noble, grand, Fraser, Turkish and Korean fir and blue spruce, and $85.22 or $81.60 for Douglas fir. That is seven species, the most of any farm here; the page does not say whether tax is in the figure. Against Honeytree's per-foot guide, a seven-foot noble runs about $122.50 there and $115.14 at Coates. Seattle's Child said dogs were welcome on a leash in 2025; the farm's page says nothing about dogs.

4. Wilson Hill Christmas Tree Farm, Maple Valley, about 16 miles

Wilson Hill Tree Farm, 20241 SE 232nd Street, Maple Valley, is the one farm here that lets you choose a tree a month early. Its 2026 page says it opens for pre-select from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 24 and 25 and November 7 and 8, with cutting, wreaths, garland and the gift shop, and says no appointment is needed in 2026. Its season page lists 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on November 21 and 22, November 27 to 29 and December 5, 6, 12 and 13, or until sold out; the home page names the Thanksgiving and December weekends as the days to collect a pre-selected tree. The trees are hand-sheared noble, Nordmann, Douglas, grand and Fraser fir. The site posts no prices. It takes cash, checks and the four main cards, welcomes dogs on a leash, invites cameras, and sends people to Facebook for Santa's schedule and the sold-out notice. Its history page dates the family's land back 110 years and the tree farm to 1975.

5. The farms with Enumclaw addresses

Enumclaw is not short of tree farms so much as tree farm websites. The chamber's visitor site, built with the City of Enumclaw, lists four Christmas tree farms with no addresses: Johnson Christmas Trees, Small Blessings Farm, McLeran Farms and The Mason Jar Farm. Small Blessings, McLeran and The Mason Jar Farm link only to Facebook pages, which could not be read for this article. The Johnson link opens johnsonschristmastreefarms.com, a balsam and Fraser fir farm at 3622 Shadow Lake Road, Concord, Vermont, which says it has been family owned since 1980; whether an Enumclaw farm of that name exists, nothing opened for this article settles. This site's guide to pumpkin patches and corn mazes drew on the same list in September.

Two more farms carry Enumclaw addresses in Facebook and directory listings, the only source for the addresses here. Mt. Rainier Nobles is listed at 42922 196th Avenue SE and has a Facebook page; its web address, mtrainiernobles.org, returned a notice that the site had expired when it was tried on October 14, 2026. Cows In The Christmas Trees is listed at 38705 Veazie Cumberland Road SE and has only a Facebook page. Both addresses are about 5 miles from City Hall, and both are the five-digit county addresses that count the distance from Seattle. Neither could be confirmed for 2026, and nothing here says either has closed.

6. The national forest permit, the other way to cut your own

The other way is the woods up State Route 410, with a Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest permit, which the Christmas tree permit guide covers in full. As of October 2026 the permit is $10 a tree plus Recreation.gov's reservation fee, five to a household, for a tree up to 15 feet, sold online from November 12, 2026 for a season Recreation.gov lists as November 14 through December 31. No permit of any kind is needed at a farm; the permit is for national forest land only, and it comes with forest roads that may not be plowed.

Where did Enumclaw's tree farms go?

They went off the lists; the county's census count did not fall with them. The Seattle Times' December 1, 1990 list, drawn from the Northwest Christmas Tree Association's guide and the Puget Sound association's map, carried Ache N' Acres at 44410 208th Avenue SE, McCaslin's U-Cut Christmas Trees at 42811 208th, Noel Tree Farm at 43025 196th SE and Grunwald Tree Farm at 43120 Auburn-Enumclaw Road SE. By the paper's November 25, 1995 list only Noel and McCaslin's remained. The 2002 and 2007 lists have no Enumclaw farm, and Patch's 2020 list for Enumclaw named ten farms, none in town.

The USDA's Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, counts by county rather than by town. Its 2022 county table shows 79 King County farms growing Christmas trees on 518 acres, 54 of them cutting 25,649 trees that year, against 68 farms, 491 acres and 28,724 trees in 2017: more growers, fewer trees cut. Pierce County had 33 farms on 424 acres in 2022, 19 of them harvesting, with the tree count withheld to protect individual farms, against 39 farms and 19,816 trees in 2017. Statewide the acreage went from 7,985 to 13,245 and the harvest from 535,046 trees to 936,904. The plateau's share is not published. What its fields grow is up to the people who farm them, on ground King County has paid since 1979 to keep in farming, a story told in the plateau's dairy history.

What to do with the tree in January

In the city a cut tree is yard waste, within limits. The City of Enumclaw's solid waste page says its optional yard waste cart, $17.17 a month in 2026 and emptied every other week, takes prunings up to 2 inches across, with extra cans or paper bags at $7.37 each; the city's 2025 flyer says branches under 3 inches and lists flocked Christmas trees among the things it will not take. Whatever the cart will not take goes to King County's Enumclaw Recycling and Transfer Station, 1650 Battersby Avenue E, open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, where yard waste costs $20.70 for a load up to 320 pounds and $129.38 a ton as of October 2026, rising to $22.50 and $140.50 on January 1, 2027 under rates approved on September 8, 2026.

Before you go

Open the farm's page the morning you go, and its Facebook page if it has one, because that is where the sold-out notice goes up; Honeytree and Wilson Hill both say so. Honeytree and Coates post no closing date, Wilson Hill's last listed day is December 13 or sold out, and Harter's has no page that could be read; the three with pages put each season's dates on the same page, which is where to look in any later year. The Puget Sound Christmas Tree Association's map of choose-and-cut farms, updated each October by its own account, needs a browser and would not load for this article. Treat the prices above as October 2026 figures and check them on the page. Bring a saw and a tape measure, as Coates' own advice page for Enumclaw customers suggests, straps for the roof, and the right way to pay: Coates' card price runs $4.53 above its cash price for the $115.14 trees and $3.62 for Douglas fir, Wilson Hill takes cards, checks and cash, and Honeytree's page does not say what it takes. If a farm with an Enumclaw address is the plan, call it or drive by after Thanksgiving, because none had a page that could be read for this article. If the forest is the plan, buy the permit online first and read the permit guide for the roads, the Sno-Park permit and the chains.