A well-known 60-acre pick-your-own farm with a complimentary hayride, free saws, carts, shaking, baling, and drilling, plus a wreath shop and Christmas cafe -- built for a half-day family outing, though tree pricing isn't published.
No pricing found for Christmas trees specifically; general farm hours from Yelp were Mon-Sun 10am-6pm which may differ from tree-season hours.
Gaver Farm is a well-known regional pick-your-own operation – known for apples and pumpkins in other seasons as well as Christmas trees – and its scale shows in what’s included with a tree-cutting visit here. At 60 acres, this isn’t a small roadside lot, and the farm has built infrastructure to match: a complimentary hayride out to the fields, a wreath shop, and a Christmas cafe all sit on the property alongside the trees themselves.
According to the farm’s own marketing, saws, carts, shaking, baling, and pin-stand drilling are all provided free. That’s a genuinely complete prep package – at some farms, one or more of these services carries its own fee, so having them bundled in removes several potential surprise costs at checkout. What isn’t documented anywhere in this research is the price of the tree itself; no dollar figure was found in any source checked. So while the prep services are a confirmed value, the core cost of the outing remains an open question you’ll need to ask about directly.
Between the hayride, the wreath shop, and the Christmas cafe, this reads less like a quick in-and-out tree pickup and more like a half-day family outing. If your goal is speed – grab a tree and leave – a smaller, simpler farm elsewhere in this research might suit you better. If you want the outing itself to be part of the holiday tradition, Gaver’s combination of amenities is built for exactly that.
Six species are listed: blue spruce, Canaan fir, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, concolor fir, and white pine. That’s a wide selection, giving you real room to compare shape, needle type, and color before settling on a tree, rather than a single-species farm where the choice is already made for you.
One general business listing (Yelp) reported hours of Monday through Sunday, 10am to 6pm, while the farm’s own site described tree-season hours of 9am to 5pm during the November 22-December 23 window in 2025. These two don’t match, which suggests the general listing may reflect the farm’s broader, non-holiday hours rather than its specific Christmas tree season schedule. The farm’s own tree-season information should be treated as the more reliable source for planning an actual visit.
Gaver Farm is a safe bet for a family outing built around more than just the tree, with real, stated free services that reduce your total cost even without a confirmed price for the tree itself. Given the mismatch in reported hours and the lack of 2026-specific dates, a quick call or a check of the farm’s current site before you go is worth the two minutes it takes.
Not confirmed for 2026. The 2025 season ran November 22-December 23, daily, 9am-5pm.
Likely a half-day outing rather than a quick stop, given the complimentary hayride, wreath shop, and Christmas cafe on site.
Not documented directly, but as a well-known regional pick-your-own farm with a hayride and cafe, it likely draws solid weekend traffic, particularly on the season's opening weekend.
Not described in the record.
A complimentary hayride carries visitors out to the tree fields, which meaningfully eases the physical demand of visiting a 60-acre property compared to walking the full distance.
Skip if you're looking for a quick, no-frills stop, since the hayride, wreath shop, and cafe suggest this farm is built around a longer visit.
Not specified in the record.
Yes, a complimentary hayride is offered, per the record -- a meaningful convenience on a 60-acre property.
According to the farm's own marketing, saws, carts, shaking, baling, and pin-stand drilling are all provided at no extra charge.
In the 2025 season: daily, 9am-5pm, November 22-December 23. These are 2025-specific dates and should be reconfirmed for 2026.
No. Gaver Farm is also known for pick-your-own apples and pumpkins in other seasons, per the record, making it a multi-season working farm rather than a Christmas-only operation.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked. No pricing found for Christmas trees specifically; general farm hours from Yelp were Mon-Sun 10am-6pm which may differ from tree-season hours.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
5501 Detrick Rd, Mount Airy, MD 21771, in Frederick County. It is one of 3 farms we track in Frederick County.
We track 3 farms in Frederick County, 3 of which let you cut your own tree. The farm has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has a gift shop or farm market, which most Frederick County farms on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 3 farms we track in Frederick County had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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gaverfarm.com
Checked September 2026.