West Edmeston Norway Spruce Picked as 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The country's most famous Christmas tree is coming from about 25 miles south of Utica, and it will light up on national TV Dec. 2.
This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is a 76-foot Norway spruce from West Edmeston, announced Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, ABC7 New York reported. It's due in Manhattan on Saturday, Nov. 7, and will be lit on Wednesday, Dec. 2, during NBC's "Christmas in Rockefeller Center," which starts at 7 p.m.
By the numbers, per the Daily Star: about 50 feet wide, an estimated 11 tons and roughly 75 years old. It will carry more than 50,000 LED lights and a Swarovski star.
Afterward, the tree stays up into January 2027, then gets milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.
Don't go looking for it: the spruce stands on private property, and the family hasn't been named publicly. No public send-off has been announced. It's the third tree from the Oneonta–Edmeston area in a decade, after 2016 and 2020.
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