If that's an adventure you'd like to try, you're in luck. You can cut your own Christmas tree in all six Arizona national forests: Tonto, Prescott, Coconino, Apache-Sitgreaves, Kaibab and Coronado.

The Christmas tree gathering was enhanced in 1936 with the opening of the Rockefeller Plaza outdoor ice-skating rink. NBC-TV televised the tree lighting for the first time in 1951 on “The Kate ...