A long-running, roughly 30,000-tree operation near Oregon, IL with over 60 years of history, both cut-your-own and fresh-cut trees, and weekend Santa visits, though narrow weekday hours need careful timing.
Trees start at $68 per a third-party directory (pickafarm.com); not independently confirmed on the farm's own site.
Sinnissippi Farm & Forest, outside Oregon, Illinois, brings genuine longevity to this research: the farm reports over 60 years in operation with roughly 30,000 trees growing on the property, and describes the local FFA chapter as assisting the Conroy family who run it. That combination — a long track record plus youth-agriculture involvement — points toward a community-rooted operation rather than a purely commercial seasonal lot.
The farm offers both a cut-your-own field, with Scotch pine, white pine, Douglas fir, and Fraser fir available, and pre-cut fresh-cut trees for those who’d rather skip the cutting. That flexibility is useful if your group has mixed preferences, or if you want to compare a fresh-cut option’s price and condition against what you could cut yourself.
The hours here have a real split worth noting directly: weekends and the season’s opening Friday run a full 8am to 4pm, but the regular weekday schedule — Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday — narrows to just 2pm to 4pm. That’s a two-hour window on those days, meaning a weekday visit needs real precision; showing up at lunchtime or in the morning on a Tuesday, for instance, would mean arriving hours before the farm opens.
Santa visits on weekends and the opening Friday, from 11am to 2pm, per the record. If seeing Santa is part of why you’re going, that narrows your options further to specifically those days and that midday window — a weekday afternoon visit outside the opening Friday won’t include a Santa appearance.
A third-party directory, pickafarm.com, lists trees starting at $68. That’s useful as a general reference point for budgeting, but it’s important to be direct that this figure wasn’t independently confirmed on the farm’s own pricing page during this research. Treat it as a starting estimate rather than a guaranteed number, and confirm current pricing when you call or arrive.
Sinnissippi’s long history, real scale, and dual cutting options make it a substantial option among Illinois farms, but the sharply reduced weekday hours demand careful timing, and the one available price figure comes from a third party rather than the farm itself — both worth double-checking before you commit to a specific day.
Weekend hours run 8am-4pm, including the first Friday of the season, and are the fuller option. Regular weekday hours (Tue/Thu/Fri) run just 2pm-4pm, a much tighter window. Santa visits weekends and the opening Friday, 11am-2pm, per the record.
Not stated as a number, but with roughly 30,000 trees on the property and both cut-your-own and fresh-cut options to consider, plus a Santa visit on weekends, this can be more than a brief stop.
Not stated directly, but Santa's scheduled weekend and opening-Friday appearances, plus the fuller 8am-4pm weekend hours, suggest weekends will draw more visitors than the narrow weekday afternoon window.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in the source.
Skip a weekday visit outside the narrow 2-4pm window on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, since that's the only time the farm is open those days, and be cautious treating the $68 starting price as confirmed, since it comes from a third-party directory rather than the farm's own pricing page.
No specific nearby-farm comparison is available in this record.
A third-party directory lists trees starting at $68, but this is not independently confirmed on the farm's own site, so treat it as a starting reference rather than a guaranteed price.
Weekends and the first Friday of the season run 8am-4pm. Regular weekday hours (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) are a much shorter 2pm-4pm window.
Yes, per the record, on weekends and the opening Friday, from 11am to 2pm.
Both options are available — cut-your-own and fresh-cut pre-cut trees, per the record.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Trees start at $68. Trees start at $68 per a third-party directory (pickafarm.com); not independently confirmed on the farm's own site.
Yes. It's cut-your-own.
2856 South Lowden Road, Oregon, IL 61061, in Ogle County. It is one of 8 farms we track in Northern Illinois.
We track 8 farms in Northern Illinois, 6 of which let you cut your own tree. At $68 to start this one sits right on the regional median of $68.
What sets it apart locally: it has wreaths and garland for sale, which most Northern Illinois 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 8 farms we track in Northern Illinois had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
sinnissippitrees.com · pickafarm.com
Checked September 2026.