Colorado blue spruce

Whether it’s a towering noble fir, a medium-sized Colorado blue spruce or even a fake plastic evergreen, expect to pay more for your Christmas tree this season.

Before that, officials planted a Colorado blue spruce from Virginia in Oct.

The previous tree, a Colorado blue spruce from Virginia, was planted in 2012, but it was damaged last year when a man tried to climb it.

Pointing like a green spire into the gray Saturday sky, it is, according to the Park Service, a 30-foot Colorado blue spruce.

In 2014, lawmakers replaced the Colorado blue spruce with the quaking aspen as Utah’s state tree at the urging of Monroe Elementary.