Recycle your Christmas tree and help the parks

Recycling Christmas trees helps the parks as they are chipped and the chips are then composted or used as mulch within Lake Metroparks. 

Lake Metroparks offers 15 convenient Christmas tree recycling drop off locations throughout Lake County. Please remove all decorations before placing trees in designated bins.

Tree bins are available at the parks listed below beginning mid-December and will be removed about January 15. 

Chagrin River Park (Reeves Road entrance)

Chapin Forest Reservation (east entrance/Rt. 306)

Concord Woods Nature Park

Erie Shores Golf Course

Girdled Road Reservation (south entrance/Radcliffe Rd.)

Grand River Landing

Gully Brook Park

Helen Hazen Wyman Park

Hidden Valley Park

Lake Erie Bluffs (Lane Road entrance)

Lakeshore Reservation

Parsons Gardens

Penitentiary Glen Reservation

Pete's Pond Preserve

Veterans Park

Click here for park information, including address and driving directions. 

Need somewhere to dispose of your Christmas Tree?

Christmas tree recycling drop off locations

Help us turn your undecorated Christmas tree into the compost used to preserve our natural resources by leaving it one of 15 conveniently located tree bins spread across the county. 

Please remove all decorations before placing trees in designated bins. Trees are chipped and the chips then composted or used as mulch within Lake Metroparks. 

Tree bins are available at the parks listed below, and will be removed about January 15. Click on the park name for park information, including driving directions:

• Chagrin River Park (Reeves Road entrance)
• Chapin Forest Reservation (east entrance/Rt. 306)
• Concord Woods Nature Park
• Erie Shores Golf Course
• Girdled Road Reservation (south entrance/Radcliffe Rd.)
• Grand River Landing
• Gully Brook Park
• Helen Hazen Wyman Park
• Hidden Valley Park
• NEW! Lake Erie Bluffs (Lane Road entrance)
• Lakeshore Reservation
• Parsons Gardens
• Penitentiary Glen Reservation
• Pete's Pond Preserve
• Veterans Park

Photo of Chair Factory Falls in background by Jeff Burcher Photography