Does your family celebrate Christmas with a decked-out, real, live Christmas tree? Did you know that you can head into your local national forest to cut down your own wild Christmas tree for just $5?

A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree ... for finding the tree and helping transport it, said he first spotted this green giant back in 2020.

2024 Christmas tree permits cost $10 per household to cut a tree in Shasta-Trinity or Lassen national forests. Follow permit maps and stay in the national forest. Permit holders are not authorized ...