An unusual combination — choose-and-cut Christmas trees alongside Missouri-grown pecans and an on-site Christmas shop — but tree species, pricing, hours, and 2026 dates weren't found on the homepage reviewed, so treat this as a starting point, not a plan.
Heritage Valley pairs its choose-and-cut Christmas tree business with something you won’t find at most other farms in this research: Missouri-grown pecans for sale, alongside an on-site Christmas shop stocked with ornaments and holiday decor. It’s an unusual enough combination that it’s worth knowing about even though the operational specifics remain thin.
The farm’s own website was reviewed only at the homepage level for this research — its separate Varieties page and Hours & Directions page exist but weren’t independently fetched. That’s a meaningfully different situation from farms with no website at all: Heritage Valley clearly has published the information a visitor needs, it just wasn’t captured in this particular research pass. The honest thing to do here is say so plainly rather than pretend the gap doesn’t exist, and point you toward where the real answers likely are.
The state grower association roster identifies the farm as choose-and-cut and lists the owners as Vernon and Bethine Spaunhorst, along with the Franklin County address. That’s enough to confirm this is a real, currently listed operation, even without the tree-specific details a visit would require.
Visit heritagevalleytreefarm.com directly and look for its Varieties page (for tree species) and Hours & Directions page (for current-season dates, hours, and likely directions to the exact spot on the property). If those pages don’t have current 2026 information posted, or if anything is unclear, call the farm directly — the phone number is on file with the state association.
If you’re the kind of visitor who likes a farm stop that does more than one thing, Heritage Valley’s pecan sales and Christmas shop give you a reason to browse even if you’re just there to look. Neither detail comes with pricing in this record, so treat it as a nice-to-know rather than something to budget around specifically.
The farm sits in Franklin County near Washington, within Missouri’s river wine-country corridor, in reasonable range of other farms in this directory covering that same stretch, including Pin Oak Farms and Pea Ridge Forest.
Since the record confirms Heritage Valley is a choose-and-cut operation rather than cut-your-own, expect staff to do the actual cutting once you’ve picked your tree from the field, which is typically a faster, less physically demanding process than a farm where you bring your own saw. That’s a general inference based on how choose-and-cut farms usually operate, not a farm-specific confirmation, so treat it as a reasonable expectation rather than a guarantee until you’ve checked the farm’s own pages.
This is a real farm with a genuinely distinctive offering, but the specific trip-planning details live on pages of the farm’s own site that weren’t checked here. A few extra clicks on heritagevalleytreefarm.com, or a phone call, should close the gap this record leaves open.
Unknown. No season dates or hours were found in the sources reviewed for this research.
Not documented.
Not documented in the record.
Not specified in the record.
Not addressed in the sources reviewed.
Skip Heritage Valley if you need confirmed hours, pricing, or tree species before you go, since none of that was found on the farm's homepage reviewed for this research — check the farm's own separate Varieties and Hours & Directions pages, or call, before planning a visit.
In Franklin County near Washington, in the Missouri River wine-country corridor alongside Pin Oak Farms and Pea Ridge Forest, both also in this directory.
Not found on the homepage reviewed for this research. The farm's site has a separate Varieties page that wasn't independently fetched — check there directly, or call.
Neither was found in the sources reviewed. The farm's own site has separate Hours & Directions pages not independently checked in this research.
It sells Missouri-grown pecans and runs an on-site Christmas shop with ornaments and holiday decor, alongside its choose-and-cut tree business — an uncommon combination among the farms reviewed.
Choose-and-cut, per the state grower association roster.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you).
1668 Four Mile Rd, Washington, MO 63090, in Franklin County. It is one of 6 farms we track in Greater St. Louis.
We track 6 farms in Greater St. Louis, 4 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 Greater St. Louis 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 6 farms we track in Greater St. Louis had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 10 other farms we track in Franklin County. All Greater St. Louis farms →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
heritagevalleytreefarm.com
Checked September 2026.