Montana's only commercial Fraser fir grower, but it's a working wholesale ranch first and a cut-your-own destination second, so call before you drive out expecting a typical agritourism setup.
Tuscor Ranch Trees, outside Trout Creek in Sanders County, is a different kind of listing than most of the farms in this directory. It isn’t built around the visitor experience the way a weekend cut-your-own operation is. It’s a working 20-25 acre ranch that has grown Christmas trees since the 1970s, and it’s described as Montana’s only commercial Fraser fir grower. Most of its roughly 1,500 trees a year get wholesaled out to tree lots in Bozeman, Helena, Glendive, Livingston, and even Cody, Wyoming, before the public-facing season starts. That’s the single most important thing to understand before making the drive: this is a source farm first, and a cut-your-own destination second.
The record confirms cut-your-own is available, with choose-and-cut Douglas fir, Fraser fir, grand fir, and Scotch pine on site, along with a broader range of precut species including Colorado blue spruce. For a Montana buyer, that Fraser fir is the real draw. Fraser fir is a well-known, widely available species east of the Rockies prized for holding its needles longer than many alternatives, but it’s genuinely uncommon to find grown commercially this far west. If a specific species matters more to your holiday than convenience, that’s worth the extra effort here.
The catch is the hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, with no weekend listing found anywhere in the record. That’s an unusual schedule for a public tree farm, and it lines up with the ranch’s wholesale-first operation. Farm and office hours for a working ranch don’t automatically mean a public sales counter is staffed and ready for casual walk-in cutting every one of those hours. Before you plan a weekday trip out to Trout Creek, call 406-827-4835 and confirm someone will actually be there to help you cut and pay for a tree, not just running ranch business.
Neither price_from nor price_note exists anywhere in this record, and no saw-provided or cash-only policy was found either. That means there’s no honest dollar figure to offer, and this page won’t invent one. It also means you shouldn’t assume a card reader will be sitting at a folding table the way it might at a larger agritourism farm. Ask about price and payment method in the same call where you confirm hours, so you aren’t caught short with the wrong kind of money in your wallet standing next to a freshly cut Fraser fir.
Beyond the trees themselves, the record notes the owners hand-make wreaths that are sold at the farm. If you’re making the trip out to Trout Creek specifically for a Fraser fir, picking up a wreath at the same stop is a reasonable add-on, though no pricing for that either is in the record.
This is a real, decades-old working tree farm with a genuinely rare offering for Montana buyers, but the visitor experience is unconfirmed and the hours suggest a working ranch, not a dedicated agritourism stop. Call before you drive.
No season dates are published. The listed hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, which reads like general farm office hours rather than a dedicated weekend cut-your-own schedule, so don't assume weekend availability without calling first.
Not stated in the record.
Not stated in the record. A weekday-only schedule at a working ranch suggests a lower-traffic, less event-like visit than a weekend cut-your-own farm, but that's an inference, not a confirmed fact.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in the record.
Skip Tuscor Ranch Trees if you need a weekend outing or a farm built around visitor amenities, since it operates Monday-Friday daytime hours as a working 20-25 acre ranch that wholesales most of its roughly 1,500 trees a year to lots in other towns before the public season even starts, and skip it if you need a confirmed price ahead of time, since none is published anywhere in the record.
No specific nearby-farm comparison is available in this record.
Yes. The record describes it as a genuine 20-25 acre working tree farm, growing Christmas trees since the 1970s, and identifies it as Montana's only commercial Fraser fir grower.
The record lists cut-your-own as true, offering choose-and-cut Douglas fir, Fraser fir, grand fir, and Scotch pine on site, plus a wider range of precut species.
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, per the record. These read like general farm hours rather than a dedicated weekend cutting schedule, so confirm by phone before visiting.
Not published anywhere in the record. No price_from or price_note exists, so there's no honest figure to give here.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Monday to Friday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own.
452 Martin Creek Road, Trout Creek, MT 59874, in Sanders County. It is one of 5 farms we track in Northwest Montana.
We track 5 farms in Northwest Montana, 3 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 wreaths and garland for sale, which most Northwest Montana farms on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 5 farms we track in Northwest Montana had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There is 1 other farm we track in Sanders County. All Northwest Montana farms →
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Checked September 2026.