Locally Grown and Heading for The Big Time
This Norway Spruce in Queensbury has been selected as the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Photo: Rockefeller Center.com.
QUEENSBURY — A Norway Spruce, which has stood in Queensbury since approximately the early 1930s will be headed to New York City on Nov. 12, after its selection as the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
The tree stands 82 feet tall and weighs 14 tons.
Erik Pauze, the head gardener for Rockefeller Center and selector of the annual Manhattan Christmas Tree, first saw this year’s tree in May.
“Someone sent me a photo of a tree in Glens Falls, so I went to go check it out. On the way to go see it, I passed another tree in a vacant lot [in Queensbury], and thought to myself, ‘I need to come back to this tree,’” Pauze told Rockefeller Center Magazine. “After I finished with the other tree, I went back, walked up and down both sides of the street, and took a few pictures. I then did some calling around to find out who the owner of the tree was and made an appointment to inspect it closer… When I got closer, I knew it was perfect… I figured, let’s get this one to Rockefeller Center.”