How this works
79 national forests list a 2026 Christmas tree permit on Recreation.gov, and 65 Bureau of Land Management offices list one in BLM's permit store. We read both on Nov 12, 2026 and print what they say: the dates, the price, the limit and the rules, each with its source. Sale times are in each place's own time zone. Recreation.gov prints them in Eastern, and we convert. A permit is the agency's to sell, and the rules on it are the agency's. We quote them and link them. We don't sell permits, and nothing here is one.
2 forests have pages on Recreation.gov with no permit type named and no dates on them. We print what the page says and no date. 53 more Forest Service units and 50 BLM field offices don't list a permit in either store. We say "not posted yet" for those, never "no program": some sell at the office and never post one online. Distances are straight lines to a forest's boundary, not to the cutting area and not by road. The forest's own map shows where you can cut. How we read the agencies · Not a permit, not the agency
Legal
Not a permit And not the agency
Last reviewed November 2026
These disclaimers govern your use of the Christmas Tree Finder (the “Tool”), a free public service of More Than Just Parks, LLC (“More Than Just Parks,” “we,” “us”). They supplement, and are in addition to, our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which are incorporated here by reference. By using the Tool you acknowledge and agree to everything below. If you do not agree, do not use the Tool.
1. Informational purpose only
The Tool aggregates and presents third-party data about Christmas tree cutting permits, their sale dates, prices and rules, and the public lands they cover for general informational and trip-planning purposes only. It is not professional, legal, medical, safety, meteorological, or emergency-management advice, and it must not be relied upon as the sole basis for any travel, health, financial, or safety decision. Always independently verify conditions with the managing agency and local authorities before you act.
2. Not an emergency or safety system
This tool is not a permit, a travel, road, or weather safety system, or the agency. It does not sell permits, and nothing on it authorizes you to cut a tree. It does not know whether a road is open, whether snow has closed a forest road, or what the weather will do. Buy the permit from the agency, follow the map and rules printed on it, check conditions with the ranger district before you travel, and follow the instructions of land managers and emergency officials.
3. Third-party data and how it is produced
The Tool relies on data from government sources: Recreation.gov’s Christmas tree permit listings for the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management’s forest products permit store (forestproducts.blm.gov), the Forest Service’s list of its units and its boundary and ranger district layers, the Bureau of Land Management’s administrative unit boundaries, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s state, county and ZIP code files. This data can be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable, or wrong, and conditions on the ground change faster than any feed updates. We do not create, control, continuously monitor, or independently verify this data.
Dates, prices, limits and rules are the agencies’ own, as Recreation.gov and BLM’s permit store printed them on the day shown beside each one, and an agency can change them at any time. Distances are straight lines from the center of a ZIP code to the boundary the agency publishes, simplified; they are not driving distances and not distances to a place where cutting is allowed. An administrative boundary can take in private and state land. Where a place has no permit online we say so; that is not a statement that the place has no program.
4. Automated writing
The sentences that summarize each place, including the answer for a ZIP code, are written by software from the agencies’ records under fixed rules. No artificial intelligence writes them, and no person reviews each one before it appears. They may contain errors or omissions. Treat them as a starting point and confirm with the agency before you act.
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