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The Best Quality Artificial Christmas Trees With LED Lights

While nearly 50 percent of American households display artificial Christmas trees during the holiday season -- in comparison to the 20 percent to 25 percent with real trees -- not all of these artificial trees feature branches with built-in lights. Fewer still incorporate light emitting diode, or LED, lights as their primary lighting sources. In comparison to traditional, incandescent artificial Christmas tree lights; LED lights last longer, have better energy efficiency and are impervious to shattering. In addition, LED lights are always cool to the touch.

  1. Tree Classics Cascade Fir

    • The artificial tree company Tree Classics manufactures the Cascade Fir artificial Christmas tree, which features distinctive, star-shaped LED lights. According to Galt Technology, the tree has a highly realistic appearance due to its tiered layers and high-quality needles that -- like natural pine needles -- take on varying shades of green. Sixty percent of these needles consist of injection-molded polyethylene plastic, or PE, the other 40 percent consist of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. The Tree Classics Cascade Fir comes in three different versions: a 5-foot tree with 410 multicolored LED lights, a 5-foot tree with 410 clear LED lights and a 15-foot tree with 4,000 multicolored LED lights. The 5-foot Cascade Fir artificial trees each have 2,210 branch tips and maximum widths of 49 inches, and the 15-foot version has 20,108 branch tips and a maximum width of 90 inches. Tree Classics also manufactures a slim version of its Cascade Fir, which is 7-1/2 feet tall and comes with clear or multicolored LED lights. The slim Cascade Fir has 3,209 branch tips and a maximum width of 51 inches.

    Crestwood Spruce Slim

    • In a search for "pre-lit LED Christmas trees" on the consumer resource website Buzzillions, the Crestwood Spruce Slim artificial Christmas trees appears as the top-ranked product. The 5-foot tall tree comes with 150 built-in LED lights available in multicolored and soft white color options. At the bottom of the artificial tree is a metallic, urn-like container with a square base that provides aesthetic value as well as stability. The Crestwood Spruce Slim has a maximum width of 26 inches and offers 296 branch tips. Its needles are PVC.

    Branson Pine Slim

    • The Branson Pine Slim ranks second in a Buzzillions search for "pre-lit LED Christmas trees." At 7 feet tall and 36 inches wide, the tree is larger than the Crestwood Spruce Slim and has a considerably greater number of branch tips, at 800. The Branson Pine Slim comes with 250 LED lights in clear or multicolored options. A stand-out feature of the tree is its hinged or collapsible branches, which help simplify storage and assembly. The needles of the artificial tree are PVC.