Lighting the most famous tree in the World!

The Christmas tree at The Rockafella Centre is world renowned for it's size and has been a world wide symbol of New York's Xmas Festivities for the 75th year!

The Christmas tree that adorns Rockefeller Center is typically a Norway Spruce. The minimum requirement is that the tree be 65 feet tall and 35 feet wide, however manager of Rockefeller Center gardens prefers the tree be between 75 and 90 feet tall and proportionally wide. Norway Spruce that grow in forests don't typically reach these proportions, so the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tends to be one that was ornamentally planted in someone's front or back yard. There is no compensation offered in exchange for the tree, other than the pride of having donated the tree that appears in Rockefeller Center.

With 30,000 environmentally friendly LED lights strung on more than five miles of electrical wire, and topped with a Swarovski crystal star, this was event we couldn't miss! Tens of thousands crowded the sidewalks for the event and hundreds of millions watch the Tree Lighting Ceremony broadcast live across the globe.


It was a reasonably cold night, and a very long wait as we could not see only hear the entertainment which included Michael Buble, Ice Skaters and The Rockettes (we arrived at about 5.30pm, the entertainment was between 7pm-9pm and tree was lit at 8.55pm!). The tree was lit very fast right at the end of the entertainment program and due to how far away we were it was a slight anti-climax, ultimatly we could have just gone and seen it another time, but hey we went to the iconic 'Rockafella Xmas tree lighting'...another once in a lifetime event ticked off!