NJ Christmas Trees

11/16/2025

Visit our website for information about our farm: www.njChristmastrees.com

New Jerseys friendliest cut your own Christmas Tree farm. FREE: Santa visits, Movie Theater, Barn Animals, and much more! Spend the day make a family tradition!

09/30/2025

This is a section of our Shale Hills Farm in Sussex County that we call “Sitting Rock Hill.” The mountains in the distance are home to the Mountain Creek Ski area in Vernon Township. Our red barn to the left of photo was built in 1880. At Christmas time we decorate the lower level. Our farm animals are very much into the Christmas spirit!

09/22/2025

We’ve been growing beautiful firs, spruces and pine Christmas trees on our Sussex County, NJ farm since 1961. We highly recommend bringing a pickup truck for easy loading if one is available. See our website for more information: www.ShaleHillsFarm.com

06/18/2025

Rainy spring in NJ this year sure results in lots of new growth on our Christmas trees. These are 9’ Concolor Fir and Norway Spruce. Shale Hills Farm

11/03/2024

Spent today setting up some of the “fun stuff” on our farm. Shale Hills Farm

10/31/2024

Hard to believe, but it’s true. We have been growing Christmas trees on our Sussex County, NJ farm for 64 years. It all began as a way to prevent soil erosion on a hilly section of our land. Planted some evergreen seedlings to hold back the soil. Eight years later, the word got out that we had some “Christmas trees.” Frankly, they were just Charlie Brown trees. But folks wanted them. It was then that we realized there was a real demand for a farm where people could go and cut-their-own tree. The rest is history. Shale Hills Farm

10/22/2024

Sure is a colorful day on our Sussex County farm. Beautiful colors this year. Shale Hills Farm

10/14/2024

Autumn arrives to Wantage Township, Sussex County in all its colorful splendor. Shale Hills Farm

10/12/2024

Spending the next couple of days rebuilding our Christmas tree wrapping area. Always something that needs to be done when you live on a farm. Shale Hills Farm

10/11/2024

....and that's me a decade ago. Working on planting YOUR tree which should be just perfect to harvest right after Thanksgiving this year at NJ's Friendliest Christmas tree farm. www.ShaleHillsFarm.com (by the way, I Iook exactly the same now. Haven't aged a day!)

10/06/2024

Yep. Winter is on its way. Today I saw the first Canada Geese formation over our Sussex County farm...heading south. You know, if I were a goose, I wouldn't waste my energy. I would just stay down south all year long. Likely, at Epcot in Disney World. No one would shoot me. And the tourists would keep me well fed with pieces of breakfast danish from the Norway Bakery and hot dog rolls from the American pavillion. If......I were a goose.

09/25/2024

It sure was good while it lasted…