Bavarian Christmas Tree Farm

Our take

Bavarian Christmas Tree Farm sits east of Tallahassee off Highway 90, and the consistency of its listing across multiple independent sources — a state agritourism directory, review aggregators like Yelp and AARP, and the core tree-farm directory — suggests a stable, long-running operation even though this research couldn’t pull fresh pricing or confirm the farm directly.

A wide species lineup for cutting

The choose-and-cut selection here is broader than most Panhandle farms in this batch: Arizona Cypress, Red Cedar, Leyland Cypress, Green Giant (a Thuja arborvitae variety), and Carolina Sapphire. That range gives visitors real texture and color choices — Arizona Cypress and Carolina Sapphire both run silvery-blue and soft, Red Cedar is denser and more traditionally aromatic, and Green Giant has a more columnar, uniform shape than the others. On top of the cutting selection, the farm also carries living, rooted Fraser Fir trees, which is a genuinely different product: a potted tree you could plant afterward rather than a cut one, and the one true fir on the property.

The petting zoo, and what it says about the visit

A petting zoo alongside the gift shop is confirmed across sources, which points toward a farm built for a family outing rather than a strictly transactional tree-cutting errand. If you’re bringing kids specifically for the animals as much as the tree, that’s a reasonable expectation based on what’s documented here — though specifics like which animals or whether there’s a separate fee weren’t found in any source checked.

Pricing: the one real gap

This is the detail worth being direct about. No price_from or price_note figure turned up anywhere in the research for this farm — not from the farm’s own Facebook page (which loaded but returned no readable pricing content), not from the agritourism directory, not from the aggregator sites. That’s different from a farm that simply hasn’t updated its price for the current year; here, there’s no historical number on record at all to anchor even a rough sense of cost. Per this site’s policy, that means no dollar figure — not even a “typical” range — belongs anywhere in this page, and none appears here. If a firm number matters to your planning before you leave the house, call 850-668-7582 directly.

Season timing is a reasonable projection, not a fresh confirmation

The recurring day-after-Thanksgiving-through-December-24 pattern has held consistently enough across directory updates (most recently confirmed in November 2025) that projecting it forward to Nov 27-Dec 24, 2026 is a defensible planning assumption. It’s not the same as the farm itself confirming 2026 dates, though, so treat it as a strong starting guess rather than a locked-in schedule.

The bottom line

Bavarian looks like a solid, stable choice for a Big Bend-area family visit — wide tree selection, a petting zoo, and an apparently consistent multi-year operating pattern. The one thing you can’t do here is budget precisely in advance; go in ready to ask about price on arrival rather than expecting to find it posted online.