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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Cut in Upstate New York, Arriving in Manhattan Saturday

The upstate donation ties a local family to a city tradition that ends with Habitat for Humanity lumber.

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This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a 75-foot tall, 11-ton Norway Spruce, that has been wrapped for transport, is craned onto a flatbed truck, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in East Greenbush, NY.
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED TISHMAN SPEYER - Workers prepare to crane a wrapped 75-foot tall, 11-ton Norway Spruce, that will serve as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, onto a flatbed truck, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in East Greenbush, NY. The wrapped tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and raised into place at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 8. (Diane Bondareff/AP Content Services for Tishman Speyer)
The Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony on Dec. 04, 2024 in New York City

Overview

  • The 2025 tree is a 75-year-old, 75-foot, 11-ton Norway spruce from the Russ family’s property in East Greenbush, near Albany.
  • The spruce was loaded onto a flatbed Thursday for the roughly 150-mile trip and is scheduled to be raised at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Saturday, November 8.
  • Rockefeller Center will host a free Meet the Tree event on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring a Peanuts coloring station and a Make-Your-Own Snoopy activity from Build-A-Bear, with advance signup encouraged.
  • The December 3 lighting, broadcast live as Christmas in Rockefeller Center, will feature about 50,000 multicolored LED lights on roughly five miles of wire and a roughly 900-pound Swarovski star.
  • The display runs through mid-January 2026 before the tree is milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity, with a new Holiday Top of the Rock privileged viewing window available December 4 through January 10.