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Christmas tree chopping permits coming soon at Golden Gate Canyon State Park

The park hosts a permit lottery and applications open Nov. 1-15

Christmas tree. Anne Mansfield, right, and her partner, Kathleen McCarthy, pull their newly cut Christmas trees back to their car in a fresh blanket of snow in the Elk Creek cutting area of the Arapaho National Forest, just west of Fraser, this month. Mansfield and McCarthy make it a yearly tradition to come up to Fraser with a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service permit to cut down Christmas trees, one for themselves and one or two for their friends who couldn't make it up to the mountains.
Christmas tree. Anne Mansfield, right, and her partner, Kathleen McCarthy, pull their newly cut Christmas trees back to their car in a fresh blanket of snow in the Elk Creek cutting area of the Arapaho National Forest, just west of Fraser, this month. Mansfield and McCarthy make it a yearly tradition to come up to Fraser with a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service permit to cut down Christmas trees, one for themselves and one or two for their friends who couldn’t make it up to the mountains.
Staff portrait of Tiney Ricciardi on May 28, 2026, in Denver. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
By | cricciardi@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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