Lazy Lay Acres Christmas Tree Farm

Our take

Lazy Lay Acres Christmas Tree Farm in Dade City has real tenure behind it: family owned and operated by the Lay family since 1981, putting it at over 40 years running as of the 2026 season. That kind of longevity, combined with cross-checked coverage from WFLA local news and multiple business aggregators, gives this farm a solid, if not perfectly airtight, documentation trail.

A mix of Florida-grown and imported trees

The farm offers choose-and-cut Sand Pine, Red Cedar, and Leyland Cypress grown on-site — the standard regional lineup for Central and Tampa Bay-area Florida farms, since these species tolerate the state’s climate in a way that true firs don’t. On top of that, the farm brings in a selection of shipped-in Northern trees for visitors who specifically want a fuller, denser shape than Sand Pine’s more open natural form or Leyland Cypress’s softer, feathery look typically offers. That gives you a real choice between the authentic regional cut-your-own experience and a more classic imported silhouette, in the same visit.

Built as a full family outing

Beyond the trees, this is clearly designed as a longer visit: a petting zoo, a hayride (noted as carrying a small per-person fee, though the exact amount isn’t specified in any source), and a real fair-food lineup — boiled peanuts, cotton candy, hot dogs, potato soup, s’mores, and split firewood for sale. That’s a more complete concessions list than most farms in this batch describe, and it’s worth budgeting a little extra beyond the tree itself if you plan to eat while you’re there.

The opening-date conflict, and why it might matter less than it sounds

Two sources disagree on exactly when the season starts. One describes the farm opening on Thanksgiving Day itself and running through Dec 25. A separate, 2025-specific source instead says the farm opened Nov 28, 2025 — the day after Thanksgiving. In practice, both descriptions point you toward the same general Thanksgiving weekend as your target, so the disagreement matters less for casual planning than it would if the two dates were weeks apart. But if you’re specifically trying to be there on opening day, that one-day difference is exactly the kind of detail worth confirming with a call to 352-567-6808 rather than guessing.

What’s genuinely missing

No pricing information for the trees themselves was found in any source checked — not a per-foot rate, not a flat price, nothing. That’s a real gap for a farm with this much other documentation, and it means budgeting here has to stay flexible until you ask directly. Given the hayride’s small fee and the concessions on offer, plan to bring a bit of cash beyond whatever the tree itself costs.

The bottom line

Lazy Lay Acres reads as a solid, long-standing family destination with real activities beyond the tree lot. The opening-date ambiguity is a minor planning wrinkle rather than a serious risk, but the complete absence of pricing is worth going in prepared for.