Holiday Forest (also known as Geisler's) is a straightforward, no-frills choose-and-cut farm in North Pulaski County with saws furnished and shaking/netting done for you, but with no hours, dates, or pricing published anywhere, plan on a phone call before the drive.
Holiday Forest – also known locally as Geisler’s Holiday Forest – sits in North Pulaski County, a bit off the main highway, with directions typically given as west off AR-107/JFK near the North Pulaski Fire and Rescue Station. That’s worth knowing before you rely on GPS alone, since a farm described this way often isn’t sitting directly on a numbered highway with clear signage.
Unlike some of the bigger Central Arkansas farms in this research – Motley’s with its farm zoo and pig races, or Pine Grove with its barrel train and haystack tunnels – Holiday Forest keeps its extras simple: hot spiced tea and candy canes for kids. If you want a straightforward tree-buying trip without a full slate of attractions competing for your time, that’s arguably a feature, not a limitation.
The farm grows Virginia Pine, Leyland Cypress, Carolina Sapphire, and Eastern Redcedar – a solid four-way spread covering the pine, cypress, and cedar options common to Central Arkansas growing conditions. Saws are furnished if you want to cut your own, and mechanical tree shaking plus netting are done for you afterward, so you’re not left wrestling with loose needles or netting equipment yourself.
There’s no standalone farm website for Holiday Forest, so this record relies on a local farm review site, a USDA agritourism listing, and a state growers’ association directory instead. None of those sources included hours, season start or end dates, or pricing. That’s a real practical hole – there’s nothing here to tell you when the farm opens for 2026 or what a tree will cost, so calling 501-224-3797 before you drive out is the only reliable way to find out.
With no price_from or price_note dollar figure anywhere in the record, there’s no honest number to offer for a tree here – not a flat rate, not a rough estimate. Budget flexibly and confirm by phone.
Most cut-your-own farms in this research operate on unpaved field lots and see their heaviest traffic the weekend immediately following Thanksgiving. Those are reasonable starting assumptions here too, pending the farm’s own confirmation by phone, since nothing in the record contradicts or confirms them specifically for Holiday Forest.
Holiday Forest offers a genuinely straightforward, no-frills choose-and-cut experience with a decent four-species selection and the netting/shaking work done for you, tucked into a corner of North Pulaski County that’s a bit off the beaten path. The tradeoff is a total absence of published hours, dates, and pricing, which makes a phone call before the drive a real necessity here, not just a suggestion.
Not stated in the record. No hours, days open, or season start/end date were found anywhere in the sources checked, since the farm doesn't appear to have a standalone website.
Not stated directly, but with simple extras -- hot spiced tea and candy canes rather than a zoo or hayride -- this reads as a more efficient, tree-focused visit than farms built around a bigger activities slate.
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Not addressed in any source checked.
Skip Holiday Forest if you're looking for a bigger activities slate -- a petting zoo, hayride, or pig races, for instance -- since the record only lists hot spiced tea and candy canes as extras, and skip it if you need confirmed hours or a tree price before you go, since neither is published anywhere in the record.
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Virginia Pine, Leyland Cypress, Carolina Sapphire, and Eastern Redcedar.
Not published anywhere in the record checked.
In North Pulaski County, with directions given as west off AR-107/JFK near the North Pulaski Fire and Rescue Station -- a bit off the main highway.
Hot spiced tea and candy canes for kids are the extras noted in the record -- simpler offerings than farms with a full zoo or hayride slate.
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 cut-your-own and choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you), and a saw is provided.
8917 Dorsey Road, Jacksonville, AR 72076, in Pulaski County. It is one of 6 farms we track in Central Arkansas.
We track 6 farms in Central Arkansas, 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 free netting/baling, which most Central Arkansas 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 Central Arkansas had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There is 1 other farm we track in Pulaski County. All Central Arkansas farms →
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Checked September 2026.