A well-established pick-your-own apple and pumpkin farm running a Fraser-fir-only Christmas season, with a genuinely unusual quirk: a $40 reservation fee applies only on opening weekend, not afterward.
$40 reservation fee is credited toward the tree purchase on opening weekend only; no reservation needed from Dec 1 onward. Tree price itself not published.
Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm is better known regionally as a pick-your-own apple, peach, and pumpkin operation, and its Christmas tree season runs as something of a seasonal extension of that same working farm. The tree offering is narrow but clear: Fraser fir only, available either choose-and-cut in the field or pre-cut, with no other species mentioned in any source checked.
This is the single most distinctive detail in the record, and it’s worth understanding precisely because it’s easy to misread. Reservations are required only on opening weekend — the Saturday and Sunday right after Thanksgiving — and carry a $40 fee that gets credited toward whatever tree you end up buying, not charged on top of the tree price. From December 1 onward, no reservation is needed at all; you can simply show up. That’s a real, farm-specific policy, not a general assumption about how choose-and-cut farms work, and it strongly implies that opening weekend draws more demand than the farm can handle on a walk-in basis. If you’d rather skip the reservation process and the fee altogether, waiting even one week into December avoids both.
Regular hours run 10am to 3:30pm, but opening weekend specifically starts earlier, at 9am, likely to accommodate the reservation system and the heavier expected turnout. The farm is closed Tuesdays throughout the season, open the other six days. Because Fraser fir is the only species offered, there’s no decision to make about variety here — you’re either choosing and cutting a Fraser in the field, or picking a pre-cut one, both drawn from the same single species.
The actual price of the tree itself — separate from the $40 reservation fee — wasn’t found in the farm’s Christmas Trees or Contact pages, nor in the state tree-farm locator or regional tourism site checked. That’s worth confirming directly, either by phone at 914-245-5111 or when you arrive, since the reservation fee alone doesn’t tell you what the final cost will be. No closing date for the season was published either, so if you’re planning a visit deep into December, a call ahead is the safer move.
Wilkens offers a straightforward, single-species choose-and-cut experience layered onto an established fruit farm, with a genuinely useful piece of trip-planning information in the opening-weekend reservation rule. The clearest way to simplify your visit is to skip opening weekend if you can — no reservation, no fee, no need to plan around the farm’s busiest two days — and just confirm the tree’s actual price with a quick call before you go.
The season opens the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Nov 28, 2026); no closing date was published in any source checked. The farm is closed Tuesdays throughout the season.
Not documented directly, but as a choose-and-cut operation on a working fruit farm, plan for a field walk rather than a quick grab from a lot.
Not documented directly, but the reservation requirement specifically on opening weekend strongly suggests that weekend draws more visitors than the farm can handle without a booking system, so expect it to be the busiest stretch of the season by a clear margin.
Skip planning an opening-weekend visit without a reservation, since the record notes reservations (with a $40 fee credited toward the tree) are required that weekend only, and skip a Tuesday visit, since the farm is closed that day.
Located in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, in the Hudson Valley, and better known as a pick-your-own apple, peach, and pumpkin farm — a natural pairing with other Westchester farms in this directory if you're comparing choose-and-cut Fraser fir options.
Only on opening weekend. The record notes a $40 reservation fee, credited toward the tree purchase, is required that weekend only. From December 1 onward, no reservation is needed.
Fraser fir only, both choose-and-cut in the field and pre-cut, per the record.
10am-3:30pm on regular days; opening weekend (Saturday and Sunday) begins at 9am. The farm is open Wednesday through Monday and closed Tuesdays.
The tree price itself was not published in any source checked, only the $40 opening-weekend reservation fee, which is credited toward the purchase. Confirm the tree's actual cost by phone or on-site.
Opens November 28, 2026 (closing date not published). Wednesday-Monday (closed Tuesday). Hours: 10am-3:30pm; opening weekend (Sat/Sun) begins at 9am.
Pricing was not published when we last checked. $40 reservation fee is credited toward the tree purchase on opening weekend only; no reservation needed from Dec 1 onward. Tree price itself not published.
Yes. It's choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you).
1335 Whitehill Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, in Westchester County. It is one of 8 farms we track in Hudson Valley NY.
We track 8 farms in Hudson Valley NY, 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.
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Checked September 2026.