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2024 City of Milwaukee Christmas Tree

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee city officials and the Department of Public Works Forest Services Division will harvest the city’s annual Christmas tree on Tuesday, November 12.

The 64-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce is being donated by the Yeager family from their home near 48th Street and Washington Boulevard.

Following harvest, the tree will receive a Milwaukee Police Department escorted to his home just outside Fiserv Forum.

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The City of Milwaukee The Deer District Christmas tree will be lit by We the Energies and will be on display beginning with a public tree lighting ceremony on December 5.

2024 marks the 111th anniversary of the lighting of the Christmas tree in Milwaukeethe oldest official tree in the United States, after New York.