A genuine backcountry cut-your-own experience on a working mountain guest ranch, with real flat-rate pricing, but you supply your own saw and your own winter-ready vehicle.
$60 for trees up to 8 feet; $100 for trees over 8 feet.
Beaver Meadows Resort Ranch is a working guest ranch in the mountains northwest of Fort Collins, and its Christmas tree offering is built differently from almost every other entry in this dataset. Instead of walking rows of a planted field, visitors cut a real conifer from the ranch’s own forested property — actual mountain terrain, not a cleared plantation and not a national-forest cutting permit. That distinction shapes almost everything else about the visit.
Pricing here is a clean flat rate by size: $60 for trees up to 8 feet, and $100 for anything taller than that. That’s a genuinely useful number to plan around, and the jump is worth noting explicitly — crossing from an 8-foot tree to a 9-foot tree adds $40 to the bill, a straightforward cost most visitors would rather know before they start cutting than discover afterward. Beyond the tree, the property also runs a 12-run snow tube park, a pond for outdoor ice skating, cross-country skiing, and ice fishing, plus guest ranch lodging. The record doesn’t say whether any of those additional activities carry their own separate fees, so treat the $60 or $100 tree price as the one confirmed number and budget flexibly for anything beyond it.
Two details in the research notes set real expectations. First, no saw is provided — you bring your own handsaw or power saw, and chainsaws specifically are not allowed. Showing up expecting the farm to hand you a saw, as many cut-your-own operations do, would be a real problem here. Second, trees are capped at 10 inches of trunk diameter, a size restriction that doesn’t show up at most flat-field farms cutting from planted rows. Because this is genuine ranch backcountry rather than a manicured lot, the ranch also recommends a 4x4 vehicle or snow tires and chains, and the record states plainly that visitors walk in snow at altitude to reach the trees. That’s not a casual stroll across level ground; it’s a real winter mountain outing, and boots suited to snow are worth treating as mandatory rather than optional.
The ranch’s own materials describe a season running “November 21 through Christmas Eve,” but the source doesn’t specify which calendar year, so this isn’t confirmed as the exact 2026 window — it may simply be a page that hasn’t been updated yet. Hours run shorter on weekdays (10am-3pm, Monday through Thursday) and open earlier on the weekend (9am-3pm, Friday through Sunday). Given the 3pm close every day of the week, plan to arrive with real daylight left, since walking snowy terrain at altitude gets harder and more disorienting as light fades. Reservations go through the ranch’s online booking system rather than a walk-up model, which is worth setting up in advance of a trip out here.
If what you want is a real, rugged, mountain-property version of cutting your own tree — with a fair, transparent flat-rate price — this delivers something few other Colorado listings in this dataset offer. If you want a quick, flat, easy field walk with a saw handed to you on arrival, this isn’t that farm, and the terrain and gear requirements here should be taken seriously before you commit to the drive up.
The ranch's own site describes a season running November 21 through Christmas Eve, though it doesn't label which calendar year that refers to, so it isn't confirmed to be the specific 2026 window. Hours are Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm and Friday-Sunday 9am-3pm; earlier in the window and on weekdays is the reasonable bet for lighter crowds and more daylight for the walk in.
Not stated directly, but this involves driving to a mountain property, walking in snow at altitude to reach the trees, cutting it yourself, and hauling it out, which is a meaningfully longer outing than a flat-field farm visit.
Not stated directly. Trees are cut from the ranch's own forested property rather than a plantation of neat rows, and the record doesn't mention a reservation cap, but the ranch's online booking system for the outing suggests some level of managed capacity rather than unlimited walk-up access.
Not described in the record. Given this is working ranch land reached by mountain roads, a paved lot is unlikely; the ranch's own recommendation of 4x4 or snow tires and chains points to unplowed or partially plowed conditions.
The record states plainly that visitors walk in snow at altitude to reach the trees, which rules this out as an easy or fully accessible outing regardless of mobility level.
Skip Beaver Meadows if you don't have your own handsaw or power saw, since none is provided and chainsaws aren't allowed, and skip it if you want an easy, flat, short walk rather than snowy terrain at altitude, since this is real ranch land, not a cleared plantation field.
No specific pairing is given in the record. Two other entries in this dataset — Summerhill Tree Farm in Loveland and NoCo Winter Wonderland in Fort Collins — are also in Northern Colorado's Larimer County, though the record doesn't state driving distance or travel time between Red Feather Lakes and either one.
$60 for trees up to 8 feet, and $100 for trees over 8 feet, per the record.
Yes. The record confirms no saw is provided, and chainsaws specifically are not allowed. Bring a handsaw or non-chainsaw power saw.
Yes. Trees are capped at 10 inches of trunk diameter, per the research notes.
The property includes a 12-run snow tube park, a pond for outdoor ice skating, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and guest ranch lodging, though the record doesn't say whether any of those carry separate charges beyond the tree price.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Monday-Sunday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Trees start at $60. $60 for trees up to 8 feet; $100 for trees over 8 feet.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, though you will need to bring your own saw.
100 Beaver Meadows Pl, Red Feather Lakes, CO 80545, in Larimer County. It is one of 3 farms we track in Northern Colorado.
We track 3 farms in Northern Colorado, 3 of which let you cut your own tree. At $60 to start this one sits right on the regional median of $60.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 3 farms we track in Northern Colorado had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other farms we track in Larimer County. All Northern Colorado farms →
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Checked September 2026.