A confirmed 2026 opening date and a solid seven-species selection with free shaking, bagging, and saws included, but weekday access requires an appointment and no closing date or pricing has been published.
Guggisberg is one of the better-anchored records in this batch on the calendar front: the farm’s own site confirms a 2026 opening date, resolved here to Friday, November 27, from the phrase “Starting Friday After Thanksgiving.” That’s a real date you can plan around, even though a closing date for the season wasn’t published anywhere found.
Rather than being open or closed on a given day, Guggisberg splits access the way a few other farms in this batch do: the opening Friday plus Saturdays and Sundays are walk-in, no advance notice required. Any other weekday requires an appointment. That’s a meaningful distinction if your only free time is a Tuesday afternoon - you’d need to call ahead rather than just showing up, whereas a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday visit needs no planning beyond checking the hours.
The farm provides saws, free tree shaking, and bagging as standard parts of a visit. That removes a few small but real costs and hassles - you don’t need to own a saw, and you won’t be left improvising with your own rope or netting for the drive home. Santa visits and hot cider round out the seasonal extras, giving the visit a bit more than a purely functional cut-and-pay feel.
Seven named varieties are documented: balsam, Fraser, and Canaan fir, plus white and Scotch pine, and blue and Black Hills spruce. That’s a genuinely wide spread across all three major evergreen families, even if it doesn’t quite match the eleven-variety selection at some other farms in this directory.
No pricing was found anywhere in the sources reviewed, so there’s no honest dollar figure this page can offer you. That’s a real gap for a farm this specific about its opening date and species list - it means you’ll be finding out the cost in person or by phone rather than budgeting ahead of time. A closing date is similarly absent, so don’t assume the season runs all the way to Christmas without checking as December approaches.
Guggisberg is a reasonable bet if you can visit on the confirmed opening Friday or a weekend, want real species variety, and don’t mind the free-but-unpriced structure of the visit. If a weekday is your only option, call ahead rather than assuming you can walk in.
The opening Friday after Thanksgiving (November 27, 2026) or one of the following Saturdays or Sundays, since those are the only confirmed walk-in days - weekdays require an appointment.
Not documented directly, but with Santa visits and hot cider offered alongside free tree shaking and bagging, plan for a bit more than a bare cutting trip.
Not documented directly, but with walk-in access limited to the opening Friday plus Saturdays and Sundays, those specific days are a reasonable bet for the farm's heaviest traffic.
Not documented in the record.
Not documented in the record.
Skip a spontaneous weekday visit, since Guggisberg's weekday hours are appointment-only rather than walk-in, and skip assuming a specific closing date, since none has been published for the 2026 season.
Located in New Ulm, Brown County, in southern Minnesota - the closest other farm in this directory is Valley Tree Farm in Belview, Redwood County, also with a confirmed 2026 season window, worth comparing given the distance between them.
Starting Friday, November 27, 2026 - resolved from the farm's own site description of 'Starting Friday After Thanksgiving.' No closing date has been published.
Only by appointment. Regular walk-in hours are limited to the opening Friday plus Saturdays and Sundays.
Not published in any source found. Ask directly when you visit or call ahead.
Seven varieties: balsam, Fraser, and Canaan fir; white and Scotch pine; and blue and Black Hills spruce.
Opens November 27, 2026 (closing date not published). Opening Friday, then Saturdays and Sundays; other days by appointment. Hours: Opening Fri 9am–5pm; then Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 11am–5pm.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
17703 Grandview Rd, New Ulm, MN 56073, in Brown County. It is one of 1 farms we track in Southern Minnesota.
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guggisbergtreefarm.com
Checked September 2026.