USDA Announces 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Route
This is a press release from the Six Rivers National Forest:
Each year, a different national forest provides a tree to light up the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building for the holiday season. The Six Rivers National Forest in partnership with nonprofit partner Choose Outdoors will bring this special gift from the North Coast to Washington, D.C. for the 2021 holiday season with a series of special events in communities along the way.
Festivities will be hosted by local communities at parks and plazas, schools, memorials and monuments, stadiums, main streets and even a parade. Well-wishers will have a chance to sign the banners on the sides of the truck, learn more about the Six Rivers National Forest, purchase U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree merchandise and more.
Beginning Oct.29, the tree’s journey can be tracked in real time online at www.capitoltreetracker.com/ hosted by Spireon, Inc.
Festivities are free and open to the public for all to enjoy. The schedule of events includes:
Friday, Oct. 29
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Del Norte Visitor Center (1001 Front Street, Crescent City, CA 95531)
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eureka Waterfront (Madaket Square Boardwalk, D Street, Eureka, CA 95501)Saturday, Oct. 30
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Willow Creek Mainstreet (CA Hwy-299, Willow Creek, CA 95573)
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge (1800 Riverwalk Drive, Fortuna, CA 955340)
Sunday, Oct. 31
12:00 – 3:00 p.m. Pear Tree Shopping Center (504 East Perkins St., Ukiah, CA, 95540)
Monday, Nov. 1
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Golden Gate National Recreation Area (435 Murray Circle, Sausalito, CA 94965)
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Vallejo Waterfront Ferry Stop (289 Mare Island Way, Vallejo, CA 94590)
Tuesday, Nov. 2
3:00 – 6:00 p.m. Dixon May Fair (655 South 1st Street, Dixon, CA 95620)Wednesday, Nov. 3
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. California State Capitol (1010 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814)
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Mother Lode Fairgrounds (220 Southgate Rd, Sonora, CA 95370)Thursday, Nov. 4
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Downtown Mariposa (Hwy 140 between 9th and 10th Street, Mariposa, CA 95338)
Saturday, Nov. 6
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. Rose Bowl Stadium (1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, CA 91103)3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Redlands West Pearl Avenue (between Eureka and Orange Streets, Redlands, CA 92374)
Monday, Nov. 8
3:30 p.m. Holbrook Parade (escort through Holbrook, AZ 86025)Tuesday, Nov. 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Petrified Forest National Park (1 Park Road, Phoenix, AZ 86028)
Thursday, Nov. 11
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. New Mexico Veteran’s Memorial (1100 Louisiana Blvd SE #5009, Albuquerque, NM 87108)
Saturday, Nov. 13
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Downtown Fayetteville (Northwest Avenue & West Dickson Street, Fayetteville, AR 72701)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Bass Pro Shops National Headquarters (1935 S Campbell Ave., Springfield, MO 65807)
Tuesday, Nov. 16
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Williamsport Town Hall (2 N Conococheague St., Williamsport, MD 21795)
Friday, Nov. 19
Delivery to West Lawn, U.S. Capitol Building*Subject to change. Monitor website at www.uscapitolchristmastree.com/calendar for the latest updates.
Safety of tour staff, event attendees and the tree are the top priority. Face coverings are required for all events and social distancing will be maintained. Along the way, we ask the public to be aware of the large truck’s huge blind spots, wide turns, and longer stopping distances on our roads so we can all arrive safely to our destinations.Follow along online at www.uscapitolchristmastree.com and @uscapitolchristmastree on Facebook and Instagram.
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wonderful ! I’ll get my picture taken with the national Christmas tree
May this bring joy to those who love Christmas. Myself? I hang with the green dude.
Green Giant?
Jolly!
There’s still time to get some activists out to protect the tree.
Indeed. Is hauling a tree across nearly the entire width of the country part of the Green New Deal?
No, it’s not. But stopping it is part of the Grinch’s New Deal.
So it’s a hypocristree?
Personally, I feel that, after these past years of devastating forest fires, we SHOULD protest this killing of this Living tree. Trinity County has lost a massive amount of it’s living forest . Why should we agree to kill a living tree to glorify a government directly responsible for these devastating wildfires? If this administration insists on taking a tree from Trinity County, how about they take one of the Old Growth trees that the United States Forest Service illegally cut within the Trinity Alps Wilderness? They can Sling Load it out with a Massive Helicopter. Thus reducing the unnecessary fuels load left within the Wilderness by this mindless act of human arrogance .
Just Sayin’
The tree I’d like to see there is still Schedule 1.
The USFS should have set a better example many years ago by planting a living Christmas tree on the White House lawn. It cost thousands of dollars every year to make the tree a reality.