A choose-and-cut farm near Springfield offering hayrides, hot spiced tea, and rare extras like balled-and-burlapped live trees and small-charge delivery, but open Friday-Sunday only with no pricing published.
No pricing was found in available sources for 2025 or 2026.
Hubbell’s Grove, near Rochester in Sangamon County, sits close enough to Springfield to be a convenient choose-and-cut option for that metro area. No dedicated farm website was found during this research, so the details available here come from third-party local guides describing the farm’s 2025 season rather than a page the farm itself currently maintains.
The 2025 season reportedly ran November 23 through December 23, but only on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays — Friday hours were shorter, 1pm to 5pm, while Saturday and Sunday ran a fuller 9am to 5pm. That’s a real scheduling constraint if your available time to visit tends to fall on a weekday; there simply doesn’t appear to be a weekday option here. Whether the 2026 season follows the same pattern isn’t confirmed, since no farm-run website was located, so the specific dates should be treated as a likely repeat of last year’s pattern rather than settled fact.
Two details stand out as genuinely less common among the Illinois farms studied here. First, Hubbell’s Grove offers balled-and-burlapped trees — live trees with roots intact, sold for replanting rather than as a one-season cut tree. That’s a meaningfully different product, and worth considering if you’d rather not throw away a tree after the holidays. Second, the farm offers local delivery for a small charge, which removes the hassle of strapping a tree to your car roof — though the actual delivery charge wasn’t stated in the sources checked, so ask when you call.
Beyond those extras, the farm offers a standard choose-and-cut experience with hayrides and hot spiced tea, and trees are baled for the trip home (for those not opting for delivery or a balled tree). That’s a reasonably complete package for a straightforward outing, even without the bigger activity list some larger agritourism farms in this research offer.
Nothing in the available sources gives a dollar figure for a tree here, for either the cut-your-own option or the balled/burlapped alternative, nor for the delivery charge. That’s a real gap, and with no farm website to check, a phone call is the only way to get a straight answer before you go.
Hubbell’s Grove’s balled-tree option and delivery service make it stand out from most farms in this research, but the Friday-through-Sunday-only schedule, the unconfirmed 2026 dates, and the complete absence of pricing information mean this is a farm to call ahead about rather than assume you can visit on your own schedule.
The 2025 season ran Nov 23 through Dec 23, Friday through Sunday only, per third-party local guides. This is not confirmed to repeat for 2026, so treat it as a likely pattern rather than a fixed schedule. Friday hours run 1pm-5pm; Saturday and Sunday run 9am-5pm.
Not stated, but with hayrides and hot spiced tea as part of the visit, plan for more than a bare tree pickup.
Not stated in the record.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in the source.
Skip a weekday visit, since the farm is only open Friday through Sunday, and skip assuming a specific price, since none was found in any source checked.
No specific nearby-farm comparison is available in this record.
No pricing information could be found in any source checked for this farm.
Friday through Sunday only, per a 2025-season description. Friday hours run 1pm-5pm; Saturday and Sunday run 9am-5pm. This is not confirmed to repeat for 2026.
Yes — balled-and-burlapped (live, replantable) trees are available, a less common option among the farms in this research.
Yes, for a small charge, per the record, though the exact amount wasn't stated in sources checked.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Friday–Sunday only (2025 pattern). Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked. No pricing was found in available sources for 2025 or 2026.
Yes. It's cut-your-own.
5285 W. State Route 29, Rochester, IL 62563, in Sangamon County. It is one of 7 farms we track in Central Illinois.
We track 7 farms in Central Illinois, 5 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 hayride or sleigh ride, free netting/baling, which most Central Illinois farms on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 4 of the 7 farms we track in Central Illinois had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Checked September 2026.