Overview
- This year's tree is a 75-foot, roughly 11-ton Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York, measuring about 45 feet in diameter.
- Cut earlier in the week, the spruce traveled about 150 miles on a flatbed truck before cranes set it in place Saturday as crowds watched.
- The tree was donated by Judy Russ and her son, Liam, in honor of her late husband, Dan, whose great-grandparents planted it decades ago.
- Crews will wrap the spruce in more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and crown it with a 9-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star covered in millions of crystals.
- The lighting is scheduled for Dec. 3 on NBC and Peacock, hosted by Reba McEntire, and after mid-January the tree will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.