Hickory Creek mixes pre-cut Fraser fir with an actual bring-your-own-saw option for cedar, cypress, and pine, plus a strong activity lineup - but no price is published, so budget flexibly.
Hickory Creek Farm has a more layered setup than most single-track choose-and-cut operations in this batch. Its main product is pre-cut Fraser fir, harvested from its own Ashe County land and sold up to 15 feet, which covers shoppers who want the classic High Country species without doing any cutting themselves. Alongside that, the farm explicitly offers a bring-your-own-cutting option, using a farm-provided handsaw, for cedar, cypress, and pine up to 10 feet. That’s a genuine two-track model: pick your species carefully, because the cutting experience differs depending on which one you choose.
The season opens Nov. 21, 2026, with no closing date published, so the standard advice about not waiting too long into December applies here without a confirmed safety net at the back end of the season.
A baby-goats-in-Christmas-sweaters event runs specifically Nov. 21-22, which lines up with opening weekend and is likely to be a draw worth planning around if you have kids who’d enjoy it. Scheduled Santa and Mrs. Claus visits and farm photography sessions running mid-October through mid-December round out a lineup that also includes a hayride, a petting area, and wreaths for sale. The photo sessions in particular start well before the main tree season and run past most other farms’ likely closing dates, so that’s worth treating as its own planning item rather than assuming it only happens alongside a tree purchase.
Unlike many farms in this dataset where payment method is a total unknown, Hickory Creek confirms it accepts cash, all major credit cards, and Apple Pay. That’s a small but real convenience, and it removes one common source of “will I be able to actually pay for this” uncertainty from your trip.
No price appears in the record, and no phone number is published either, only an email contact and the farm’s own community location (Fleetwood, in the West Jefferson area of Ashe County) rather than a full street address. That combination, no phone and no address, is worth planning around: if you need to reach the farm quickly on the day of your visit, email may be your only option, and GPS navigation should be treated with the same caution you’d apply to any farm without a confirmed street address.
If cutting your own tree is the point of the visit for you, make sure you’re choosing cedar, cypress, or pine rather than assuming Fraser fir works the same way here; the record is specific that Fraser fir is handled as a pre-cut product rather than a self-cut one at this particular farm.
The 2026 season opens Nov. 21 (closing date not published). The baby-goats event runs Nov. 21-22, and farm photo sessions run mid-October through mid-December, so plan around whichever of those matters most to your visit.
1 to 2 hours if you take the hayride, visit the petting area, and browse wreaths; less if you're only there for a quick tree.
Not specified, but the Nov. 21-22 baby-goats weekend and the first Saturday after Thanksgiving are the most likely candidates for the season's busiest days, on top of typical choose-and-cut crowd patterns.
Not specified; expect an unpaved lot typical of the area, and note that no street address is published, so plan your route using the farm's given community location.
Not specified in available sources.
Skip if you specifically want to cut your own Fraser fir - the record suggests that species is sold pre-cut rather than as a cut-your-own option here.
Other Ashe County farms nearby in the West Jefferson/Fleetwood area, if you want to compare cut-your-own options for non-Fraser species.
Yes, for cedar, cypress, and pine up to 10 feet - the farm provides the handsaw. Fraser fir is sold mostly pre-cut rather than as a cut-your-own option.
The baby-goats-in-Christmas-sweaters event runs Nov. 21-22, 2026, according to the farm's website.
Cash, all major credit cards, and Apple Pay, per the farm.
None is published in available sources - the farm lists an email contact instead.
Opens November 21, 2026 (closing date not published).
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
We track 19 farms in Blue Ridge NC, 1 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 a hayride or sleigh ride, a petting area, cut-your-own trees, which most Blue Ridge NC farms on our list do not.
There are 3 other farms we track in Ashe County. All Blue Ridge NC farms →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
hickorycreekfarmnc.com
Checked August 2026.