The tree selected for Rockefeller Center for the Christmas season comes from the greater New York City area, including Connecticut. It is transported to Manhattan by truck.
The 2013 Christmas tree will come from a yard on Kazo Drive in Shelton. The tree also came from Shelton in 2007.
Here is a list, courtesy of Wikipedia, of where trees have come from since 2000. In Connecticut, these has included Easton, Manchester and Ridgefield. All have been Norway spruce trees.
2012 — Flanders, N.J., 80 feet tall
2011 — Mifflinville, Pa., 74 feet tall
2010 — Mahopac, N.Y., 74 feet tall
2009 — Easton, Conn., 76 feet tall
2008 — Hamilton, N.J., 72 feet tall
2007 — Shelton, Conn., 84 feet tall
2006 — Ridgefield, Conn., 88 feet tall
2005 — Wayne, N.J., 74 feet tall
2004 — Suffern, N.Y., 71 feet tall
2003 — Manchester, Conn., 79 feet tall
2002 — Bloomsbury, N.J., 76 feet tall
2001 — Wayne, N.J., 81 feet tall
2000 — Buchanan, N.Y., 80 feet tall