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Colorado to provide next year’s Capitol Christmas tree

By 11/19/2019 | updated 6 years ago

GRAND JUNCTION – Next year’s U.S. Capitol Christmas tree will come from western Colorado.

U.S. Forest Service officials said Monday a tree will be cut from Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre or Gunnison national forest to adorn the Capitol building’s West Lawn in 2020.

Spokeswoman Kim Phillips told The Daily Sentinel that a formal announcement will be made Friday, and she declined to provide further details.

Each year, a national forest is chosen to provide a tree for the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

This year’s tree is a 60-foot blue spruce cut from the Carson National Forest outside of Taos, New Mexico.

The Capitol tree last came from western Colorado in 2012, a 73-foot Engelmann spruce from the White River National Forest east of Meeker.

The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is seen after being lit by House Speaker John Boehner and Make-A-Wish Foundation recipient Aaron Urban, 10, from Linthicum, Md., on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.
(Associated Press file photo)
Workers deliver the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree, a 73′ Engelmann Spruce from the White River National Forest, near Meeker, Colo., that is 74 years old, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.
(Photo by J. Scott Applewhite, iStock)
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