This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is making its way from East Greenbush, New York. The 75-foot-tall Norway spruce will be cut down on Thursday and travel about 130 miles to New York City, where it’s expected to arrive in Rockefeller Plaza on Saturday.
The tree weighs about 11 tons and spans 45 feet at its widest point. Once it’s set into place, crews will begin decorating it with more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights strung along roughly five miles of wire. To finish it off, a 9-foot Swarovski star covered in 3 million crystals will be placed on top.
The annual tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3 at 7 p.m. ET. You can watch “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” live on NBC, on Peacock and through NBC 4 New York streaming platforms.