Always have the best time at Hillside Tree Farm! Pro tip from someone who's been going here for years: park at the lower parking lot (not the parking spaces long the road)! The staff are wonderful and the "cutters" do their best to make selecting and cutting the tree a magical experience. They start the tree cutting for you, with their own saws (you don't need to bring your own), so the tree regrows properly - but they each let us take turns. Not as easy as they make it look! So helpful at every step of the process - including free wrapping and tying it to the car. We found a beautiful 9' Turkish Nordman with blue hues on the bottom and it has barely dropped any needles after the initial shaking!! read more

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My family loves this place, especially our kids who get to yell "cutter" and "timber". I recommend going the weekend right after Thanksgiving, that's when you'll snag the best tree, but honestly the farm is so big it takes our family 2+ hours to walk it so I'm sure you'll find a good tree anytime. I also recommend bringing cash to tip the cutters who cut your tree and bring it to the front for you. They also usually have a cash only line to pay for your tree which moves way faster than the credit card only line. Lastly, you should get a hot cocoa before you start looking so you have something warm to hold. It's a little pricey but the experience, service, and quality is what keeps us going back! read more

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What a great experience! There's no cost to enter. You simply walk around the farm and check out the trees and see which one you want. When you find one you like, you simply yell, "CUTTER!" and one magically appears before you with a scythe. If you're shy, you can wait for one of the cutters to walk by yelling, "Anyone need a cutter?" That works too. This farm has so many different varieties to choose from. I wanted a Noble fir but ended up selecting a silver tip. All trees cost the same no matter what kind you get or how tall it is. Once your tree is cut, he brings it to the line for you. You pay. They shake the tree in a contraption to remove dry needles. Then after you pay, they tie the tree up and give you some rope so you can tie it down your car. Easy peasy. Don't forget to tip your cutter. They work hard! So much better than just picking a tree from a parking lot. I want to come back every year! read more

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This is our 3rd year going to this tree farm for our Christmas tree. We enjoy going through and finding our perfect tree. All the trees are mixed in various sizes so if you are wanting an "orderly" experience this is probably not for you. Trees are the same price regardless of size. There's ample parking with multiple lots but it does get busy. Great customer service, everyone was friendly. We prefer to get our tree here versus a home improvement store bc of the experience. read more

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Great selection of trees, easy parking, great customer service. Will be back next year.

Our favorite tree farm by far. All the trees are the same price, all are beautiful. We use the entrance right across from El Dorado. Cutters are so helpful and let my little guys help cut it down!!! Thanks for providing wonderful memories for my family read more

Trees are tiny and sparse, not filled out. Didn't know price until we got there and saw 'all trees are $111'. Left annoyed and with no tree. Trees aren't even instagram worthy if you have a significant other whos into that and holiday photos. Oh ya surrounding spots are even more. Santa Cruz mtns have them for $75 and let you cut them down yourself loll in the Bay Area no less!!!! read more

The trees are beautiful! They are spaced out a bit so they have great branch spacing. I bought a gorgeous blue spruce.

Our first time at an authentic Christmas Tree farm was everything we hoped it would be. Since we go to apple hill every September we discovered they also have tree farms for the holidays. After extensive research we settled on hillside tree farm for their abundance of trees. The weather was perfect, 30 degrees, snow/ice on the ground and a little Christmas cheer in the air. My wife and I walked around for a good hour before deciding on a 9 FT tall tree. All trees regardless of size are $90 but if you mention their website they have a $5 off coupon. Once we located our tree we had a cutter take it down for us, wrapped it and even loaded it on our vehicle. This is the way Christmas tree shopping should be. Forget about buying your tree at a hardware, grocery or whatever kind of store. Going to an actual tree farm just adds more Christmas tree to your holiday celebration! Merry Christmas everyone!!! read more

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Great people and a reasonable price! They have acres and acres beautiful trees. We got ours and were helped quickly by a great kid who cut down our perfect tree and shook it and wrapped it up and then loaded it to our truck for us ;) (we tipped him) Also they take Credit/debit cards, one of the few and our $75 7' silver swift tree receipt also got our whole family of 6 a free train ride too :) read more

Hillside Tree Farm - This place was great - Christmas Trees Near Me - Camino, California

They have a great variety of trees and a very helpful staff. They have guys waking around the property with carts and they will cut your tree down and bring it to the parking lot for you (don't forget to tip them though because it's the nice thing to do)!! They also have a $5 coupon on their website. read more

Super busy, but found someone to help right away. This is our second year coming and we don't regret it!

My husband & I are newly relocated to Folsom, CA. On the Friday after Thanksgiving, on our way to Red Hawk Casino, we noticed a lot of cars coming down Highway 50 with fresh Christmas trees. This prompted me to come home & research cut-your-own tree farms in the area. I found Hillside among many others online. They had a $10 off coupon & fabulous prices listed on their webpage. We decided to head up there today, Sat. Nov. 27,2010, and have a look around. Hillside is easy to find, per the directions provided online, & has a gorgeous selection of Christmas treees! There's a variety for every taste. We arrived at 2 pm, and it just started snowing as we pulled in. We spent 2 hours looking through the trees, in the snow, finally selecting a beautiful Silver Tip. The tree was cut & carried to the cashier by a young man, who also bundled it up for us in netting & loaded it into out truck. While at the cashier's I also picked out a Lg. fresh pine wreath w/ ribbon, holly & pinecone decorations on it. The tree was 7 ft tall & cost us $70 OTD w/ the $10 off coupon (found on their website)...the wreath was $35 additional. I felt almost as if we were stealing it, after the prices I'd become accustomed to on the Bay Area's tree lots. We had a TON of fun in the snow and found a beautiful & unique tree to celebrate out Christmas holiday. We also have a new holiday "tradition"...go to Hillside as close after Thanksgiving as possible, when there's light snow expected. Not bad, all this is only a half hour from our new home!! BTW- They take cash or checks only. No plastic. read more

Great tree farm with some really awesome people. The selection of trees, the second weekend in December no less, was still great. I had to narrow down my pick among 5 finalists, and at other tree farms it's usually 2-3 great ones. I knocked down one star because of the cost. Just a BIT on the pricey side ($80 for our 9' silver fir), but you could also get a 13' fir for the same price (which is a deal). I'll be going back next year! read more

$54 for a 6" tree. Packing and strapping down was free. Great selection of trees and friendly people. Beautiful place to pick a tree.

After seeing reviews here and other places, I guess my expectations were set a little too high. $50 for a tree that was under 6 ft., we had a coupon from their website too, a train ride across the road that nobody mentioned w/out our asking, no Santa, no free candy canes. I read their site thinking we'd be getting free drinks, candy canes, see Santa (even told he was driving the train when we were there, he wasn't) all after we used our $10 coupon and bought a tree. It was VERY basic for a tree farm. I worked in one for years, as a kid, and this one didn't measure up to my expectations. It wasn't bad, just not quite what the reviews touted it to be. read more

I drive all the way from sacramento just to come here. Definitely worth it! The train ride is perfect to keep kids excited about getting the tree, and everyone on staff Is very helpful. I love it here!! read more

Has the best tee selection that I have seen so far, but it's relatively expensive, I don't know the average price of other places, but thy never have them posted so I don't have anything to compare with. The tree I got was a silver tip I believe and it was $79 with a $10 coupon that you can pull up online. I also like that they accept all payment cards. Very nice staff, the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the price!! read more

We go here every year for our Christmas tree and always come away with a great tree. Our kids love the train ride and the staff there are friendly and helpful. Will be back again next year! read more

We have been coming to this tree farm for many years. Great trees. Staff is always great. Lots of fun for our family

We loved it here! We have an older dog and were looking for a tree farm with easier access and less hills. It was perfect! You find a tree and yell "cutter" they arrive to help you cut and haul. We will be back! Prices were reasonable we paid $75 for for a 11 to 12 foot silvertip - with the use of the $10.00 coupon we found online. read more

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We go there every year and have always had a great experience getting our tree. Everyone is very cheerful and helpful. Once in a while we luck out and it actually has snowed while we were there which our kids loved! Great tree selection. The guy cutting the tree for us helped us get the tree down and they wrapped it for us. There is a small Christmas shop there that a young lady has and has been doing it for several years. She has cold drinks and hot chocolate and snacks to sell and a selection of different things she is selling. She is a doll and even handed out candy canes to our kids. You can tell she is very proud of her little shop! She said she has been doing it since she was 7 and most of the money she makes goes to her college savings. I thought she was great! We took the kids on the train ride and they loved it! We lucked out and Santa was driving the train! Then we headed over to Boa Vista and had some pie! read more

We have purchased our tree here for nearly 15 years now. It is well worth the 2 1/2 hour drive from our Oakdale home. We have an 11 ft. ceiling and love their great big and tall trees. read more

Sadly due to the snow most tree farms were closed and this was the first open one we found. Horrible layout all the trees were intermingled with each other and pricing was $60-80 depending on tree type but no matter the size. The help staff had no idea which trees were which or even the prices. Just totally unorganized and with the prices a total ripoff read more

Took our family "tree hunting" and luckily we happened upon Hillside Tree Farm in Camino. A beautiful setting, friendly and helpful staff and so many gorgeous trees to choose from!!! We took home the perfect tree for our holidays!!!! Thank you for an awesome tree and a great day in the beautiful setting of Apple Hill!!! The jovial owner, Mark was on site and gave us lots of helpful advice and tips...he knows his trees!! The kids had a blast riding the train!!! read more

This is the best tree farm we've been to. Really liked the train rides for the kids! Lost a kid and gained two trees...had a great time thanks to the staff (BTW we found the kid!) read more

Hillside tree farm is pretty good. They have many trees, although several of them were dying or scrawny, but I think that was because of the drought. They have many types from silver tips to noble. It wasn't very muddy either. It was easy to get a cutter and they packaged the tree for free and did a good job. There are also some really pretty wreaths. The train ride is a good attraction young children. read more

This is a great tree farm we have been getting are Christmas trees there for the past few years and always stumble upon a beautiful tree for our family. read more