Sleighbells Farm & Gift Shop

This review is only for the shop/santa experience. I have no idea what buying a tree there is like!

The Santa there is seriously the best. He so really sweet and he speaks to the kids like he's always known them. Just wonderful. It's VERY inexpensive for a photo and they let you take your own as well. It does smell a little of wet dog at the entrance (but that's probably because they and Santa are also dog friendly!!). Ornaments range from inexpensive to very expensive but I don't think that's any different from anywhere else. Do yourself a favor and buy some fudge...cus dang it's good!

A large selection of holiday decor and ornaments. There are some very unique items too. The staff are so friendly and they make fantastic fudge.

We love this quaint little farmhouse turned holiday ornament store and much much more...! We have been visiting Sleighbells for many many years even before we moved to Oregon it was a destination spot to stop when here visiting my family. We used to come here when they had a tea room with my grandma. They have every single ornament you can imagine ranging in price for everyone. They have different rooms decorated with themes and ornaments to match. The have candles, fudge, candy and nostalgic items that will bring you back to your childhood. They also have a Halloween are with a great variety of items. This is always a fun stop around the holidays and get lot in the store with all the fun items. They have a Christmas tree lot as well. They are open seasonally so check Google for the hours before heading out to Sherwood.

Came here on a clear, crisp Saturday afternoon to get our Christmas tree. No problem finding parking and we first visited the big Christmas store that had all kinds of Christmas treasures. They also had free hot chocolate/coffee and Santa was greeting kids (both of our kids visited with him, and so did grandma!). The grandparents also enjoyed some fudge. We then fetched our saw and headed over the hillside to find the perfect tree. We dragged it down the hill and had it shaken and baled. It was 8' and cost $102. A couple friendly staff tied it up on our car. Before leaving, we got some kettle corn for the drive home - yum! We'll be back.

What a treasure of a find! I'd never heard of Sleighbells before stumbling onto it on Google Maps a few months ago, and saved it with the intent to check it out at a future date. This weekend, with its startlingly perfect weather, my wife wanted to get a Christmas tree before things turned south for the winter. I remembered Sleighbells, so we set out on the 45-minute drive to Sherwood.

We arrived with a little more than an hour before closing, and perused the ludicrously expansive gift shop. Close to bursting with ornaments, knick-knacks, miniature village buildings and decorations, dolls, dioramas, nativity scenes, snacks and much more, you'd be hard pressed not to find something to take home here. There's a bakery counter with a bunch of sweet treats up front near the entry way, a place to order coffee or cocoa in the back, popcorn out front, and a fragrant mixture of wonderful holiday smells throughout the building. They even have a Halloween section, for all of us Nightmare Before Christmas fans, which makes me wonder if Sleighbells holds seasonal events here? Apparently they open each year in July and stay open until New Years, which leads me to believe there is more Holiday cheer going on here than just Christmas. I'm going to have to look into it later!

As for the tree selection process, the staff here were extremely polite and helpful, explaining the process (check in, get a tag, take a saw, find your tree, cut it yourself, and either leave it for their staff to pick up and deliver to the staging area, or carry it down yourself). I carried our tree down the hill, not wanting to wait the 15-60 minutes for their truck to round up all the waiting trees and bring them down. Once there, the tree was measured, shaken, bound up, and mounted to our car (after paying, of course). The staff were extremely friendly, communicative and helpful during the whole process! They were even able to answer some questions about an odd-ball, completely red tree we stumbled upon later (and probably would have bought instead, had we seen it first)!

Prices per tree seem to be slightly higher than what you might find at a church or Boy Scout tree lot, but you'd be remiss to miss the magical experience at Sleighbells. Unfortunately, my wife and I weren't able to go to Leavenworth for Christmas this year, as we usually do, and as such weren't able to select a new ornament for our tree from Kris Kringl, the year-round Christmas store, so it was a wonderful discovery to find such a treasure right here in our neck of the woods. Sleighbells not only filled the void for our holiday ornamental and knick-knackery shopping fix, I believe it will become a new holiday tradition, because I can't see any other tree farm competing with this one. There simply is no comparison.

I've been going here my whole life! I'll never go anywhere else. Free hot coco and beautiful trees highly recommend

Love this place! Beautiful grounds and the gift shop is super cute with tons of treasures.

After dragging my my family to three different Christmas tree farms we were about to give up. Two of the ones we had visited had very small trees and the other was closed on weekdays. Then we found sleigh bells. Open 7 days a week it was perfect. The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful and even offered to carry the tree once we had cut it down. We took my two year old son and baby of 8 months and there was plenty of activities to keep them from being bored. The gift shop is beautiful decorated for the holiday and has one of every Knick knacks you could ever need. While it's a bit of a drive located off hwy 99 just west of sherwood you will not be disappointed visiting hear. The trees are in excellent shape and they have a great assortment of varieties and heights.

Well, it started off as a fair experience, quickly deteriorated at the 'Tree Barn' at check in.

TL;DR - if your values are around the spirit of Christmas, love, joy, gratitude, and memories, you'll do well to avoid the terse and short tempered young lady who working the Christmas tree barn this evening (Straight blonde Hair, unfortunate sore on her lip, younger). Incredibly rude to my wife, to the point we left without even looking at their selection (I miss Hagg Christmas tree farm already, the spot we had been visiting for years but went out of business this fall). Good news is right down the road there is an organization selling trees for a charity (Race for the Cure) at much lower prices, incredibly kind folks. We tipped them the difference in what it would have cost us at Sleighbells on principle alone.

The general sense I got is this place is an overpriced cash grab where when offering a product at a premium, the experience/customer service they culture as an organization that promotes the holidays- Christmas especially, is lacking.

A lot of us look at the selection of our tree as tradition. It's something we look forward to, we love contributing to local small businesses, enjoy very much the spirit of the holidays in the process. This year we drove to our usual spot, they had closed :(.

When we first arrived as Sleighbells, we were pretty excited- extensive gift shop, complimentary hot cocoa, and a lot to look at in terms of commercializing the holiday. But that's not why we celebrate Christmas- as nice as the trinkets are, it's about spreading joy and love- kindness and generosity.

The experience of finding the tree you will look at for over a month in symbolism of the holiday, was quickly ruined by a young lady who was working the counter at the 'check in'.

The process is not 'typical' in our experience- rather convoluted, and we had a few questions as their pricing model, what they were charging extra for, the difference in cost from their pre-cut trees etc. When we first got there we were going to select a pre-cut tree because it was getting dark, we were behind schedule, and we were told we only had until 4 to pick our own (makes sense, it gets dark). But when discovering that the trees they had in the barn were quite a bit more expensive (I mean, literally 40 dollars more expensive for the same size noble, pre-cut, less than a mile down the road and in similar condition) we changed our mind and wanted to go on a race to find our tree with the time we had left. We had 20 minutes, they said as long as we found it by 4, we would be fine!

The young lady completely change her demeanor as if we were 'annoying' her- she gave us a lecture about which trees we couldn't cut, and the fines involved, and when my overly polite wife, a primary education school teacher asked a question, she was met with a rude pause, a scowl, and verbatim 'uhhh, I was getting to that...'. We were completely taken back. It was at this point there was no way I would be contributing another dime to this business model this season. We made the mistake of going through the gift shop first, and buying ornaments for the tree.

I said, 'that will be fine, thank you for your time we will be going elsewhere.' I was met with another snarky glare- I said 'merry Christmas' on my way out, and was met with a feigned and sarcastic, overly energetic 'Merry Christmas' in response.

We asked a question, at a booth, with about 6 different signs and sets of instructions, and a very confusing pricing structure, on our first visit. How dare we.

Look, people have bad days, but if you are going to charge a premium such as this location, part of that premium is the experience. We are looking and hoping to participate with family operated and owned organizations that understand their product, this one in particular being a symbolic metaphor of what Christmas is all about.

We don't mind paying a little extra if the joy and spirit of the holiday is the focus of the operators. But we, and many others, don't just look at Christmas as a way to capitalize on peoples good nature and cheer- take money out of their wallets, and treat them badly in the process.

I don't have a lot of years left with my kiddo before she will be starting her own family and her own traditions. Every year counts for us. We look forward to these precious moments annually. They are finite, special, and sacred.

Get your act together, the humble salesman at the shack on 99, selling trees for far less and donating part of the sales to cancer prevention just offered us some of the best customer service we've ever had during the holidays. Sure, it wasn't as flashy, no gift shop- but he cared about the people, the trees, and the reason for the season- and he definitely didn't talk back to my wife like an angry teenager upset with her parents.

'Merry Christmas' from Sleighbells, where snarky sarcasm is free of charge, but everything else is overpriced and overconfident.

I was recommended this place by a friend and have gone every year. They have it all. Cost of the trees are a little steep, but it's worth it. Take your kids, meet Santa on his sled and have a picture taken (I think it's only $5 for the pic). Walk over to the Hot Chocolate Station and get some free Hot Chocolates for the fam and check out all the decorated trees, wreaths and ornaments. Then take your family out on the farm with a saw and pic your tree, cut it down, take some pics and tag it. A truck will drive by, pick it up, take it back for you, shake and tie the tree down for your pic up whenever you're ready. I think a 6ft tree is around $55-60.

You're kids will remember it for life. The view is beautiful too.