Two people carry a freshly cut fir out of a snowy national forest, a black dog running ahead of them

144 places with a permit online · 110 on sale today144 online · 110 on sale today

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How this works

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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

Christmas tree permit 2026 · National grassland · Nebraska

Oglala National Grassland

Not posted on its own. The Nebraska permit doesn't name this grassland. The Forest Service puts it in the Pine Ridge Ranger District, and the permit has a type named "Pine Ridge Ranger District (20 foot tree)". The permit doesn't say whether that type takes in the grassland; ask the district before you cut.

Oglala National Grassland

The boundary, not the cutting area. Open the map.

Checked against Recreation.gov's permit catalog, read Nov 9, 2026

What the record says

Recreation.gov lists a permit under the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands. Its permit types are named:

Pine Ridge Ranger District (20 foot tree)
Bessey Ranger District (20 foot tree)
Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest

None of them names this grassland, and the permit's rules don't mention it. The Forest Service's ranger district layer puts the Oglala National Grassland in the Pine Ridge Ranger District (read Nov 12, 2026), and one permit type carries that district's name. The permit doesn't say whether that type takes in the grassland, and we don't guess: ask the district before you cut. Read the permit's rules and maps

Where to ask

Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, the site of the office that runs it. It lists the offices and their phone numbers. We opened it on Nov 1, 2026.