{"id":519733,"date":"2026-11-05T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519733\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:43:01","slug":"old-sacramento-holiday-tree-arrives-thursday-ahead-of-nov-25-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519733\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Sacramento holiday tree arrives Thursday ahead of Nov. 25 lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look at lot like in the Capital City after the 60-foot holiday tree arrived in Old Sacramento Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The white fir from Siskiyou County pulled up around 7 a.m. on K Street between Front and Second streets. Crews will use a crane to place and secure the roughly 12,000-pound tree.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the tree is between 35 and 40 years old and was cut at a higher elevation near the snow line to help keep it fresh through the season.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dg-old-sacramento-christmas-tree-nov2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dg-old-sacramento-christmas-tree-nov2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The tree on the trailer as it arrived in Old Sacramento early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Once it is in place, crews will decorate it with nearly 24,000 lights, 550 icicles, 400 strobes and other specialty lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The tree will be officially lit Nov. 25 at 6 p.m., followed by the first Theatre of Lights performance of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On Sacramento Kings game nights, the tree will also be lit purple before Theatre of Lights performances.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beginning to look at lot like in the Capital City after the 60-foot holiday tree arrived in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9479,22854,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-519733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-christmas","tag-old-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}