When recycling your tree, please be sure that they are completely undecorated. This means removing all lights, tinsel, garland, plastic wrap, tree stands, wire, rope, nails and all other foreign materials from trees before recycling. Live trees with artificial snow sprayed on the branches cannot be mulched. 

Douglas County Residents

Bring Christmas trees by at anytime and place in the mulching area. Recycling locations will be open December 26 through January 31, 2010. For questions about the Douglas County Christmas Tree Recycling locations, please contact Douglas County Parks at 720.733.6990

Challenger Regional Park
17299 E. Lincoln Avenue
Parker

Fairgrounds Regional Park
500 Fairgrounds Drive
Castle Rock

Highland Heritage Regional Park
9651 S. Quebec
Littleton

Red Stone Park ** for more information on this park please call the Highlands Ranch Metro District at 303.791.2710**
Santa Fe and Highlands Ranch Parkway
Highlands Ranch

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Highlands Ranch Residents

Drop off beginning December 25 to January 17 at the following parks:

• Red Stone Park (Santa Fe / Highlands Ranch Parkway)
• Toepfer Park ( S Venneford Ranch Road)
• Dad Clark Park (Astorbrook Circle)
• Highlands Heritage Regional Park (9651 S. Quebec)

The trees will be recycled for mulch. The free mulch will be available on a self serve basis at each of the tree recycling sites, for more information on mulch call 303.791.2710.

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Town of Castle Rock

Drop off begins December 26 and runs through January 31, 2010. All of the trees will be turned to mulch that the public can take home free beginning January 15. Mulch will be available, while supplies last, through march 15 at the same parks where the trees can be dropped off.

Residents can drop their trees off in the parking lots of the following parks:

• Centennial Park (22 N. Gilbert Street)
• Founders Park (4671 Enderud Blvd.)
• Metzler Ranch Park (4175 Trail Boss Drive)
• Paintbrush Park (3492 Meadows Blvd.)

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Town of Parker

The Town will hold the 1st Annual Christmas Tree Recycling Program from Dece. 26, 2009 through Jan. 24, 2010.

The drop-off site will be the East paved Salisbury Park parking lot, located off of Motsenbocker Rd., and available to residents only.

Both green and flocked real trees are accepted. Before dropping off any Christmas trees, remove all tree stands and nails, ornaments, lights, garland, and tinsel. No artificial trees or garland will be accepted. Residents should not place Christmas trees in garbage containers.

Please do not illegally dump any other items at the drop-off location.

The trees collected by the program will be chipped into mulch, and will be available at no charge to residents. Remaining mulch will be utilized through out the Town, and not discarded in a landfill.

Keeping trees out of the landfills helps extend the life of landfills, reduces greenhouse gas and produces a useful resource. The annual Christmas tree recycling program is just one of many ways that Parker residents can reduce, reuse and recycle.

For more information call Public Works at 303.840.9546.