Tree on your house, blocking the driveway, or into power lines? Call 612-532-9996 now. · Live answering · Same-day emergency response
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Every tree company in the metro claims the whole metro. We will tell you where we actually work, and when you are better off calling somebody closer.
You will talk to a certified arborist. Not a salesperson.
Urban Tree is a Maple Grove company. We have worked out of the same shop on 93rd Avenue North since 2006, and the crew that pulls up at your house is our crew, not a subcontractor with our name on a magnet.
Where We Actually Work
We work in the central metro and the north and northeast suburbs, so it’s easy to schedule with us in any of these locations. Minneapolis, St. Paul and the west and north metro are everyday work for us. The far east and far south metro we still serve; we just plan it into a route instead of squeezing it in. And if you are far enough out that the drive would cost you more than the job is worth, we will say so on the phone and point you at somebody closer. That call takes thirty seconds and it has never once cost us a customer worth having.
Maple Grove, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Osseo, Champlin, Maple Plain, Medina, Corcoran, Rogers and Dayton. This is the neighbourhood. Most planned work here is scheduled inside a week or two in a normal season.
Minneapolis and St. Paul. Both cities license tree contractors and both have rules about who may touch a boulevard tree. We hold the licences and we handle the permits, including street closures when a crane needs the road.
The east and south metro: Roseville, Shoreview, Arden Hills, Edina, Bloomington, Richfield, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka. Same price, same crew. Scheduling just works around the drive.
Tree Service by City
Three cities have a page of their own, because the rules genuinely differ there and a generic answer would cost you money. The rest of the metro is served on the same terms, from the same shop, by the same crew.
The Park Board owns the boulevard trees and the City licenses who may cut. Tight alleys, no parking, and a condemned-tree clock that runs in days.
Older, bigger private trees than anywhere else in the metro. If yours wears a red painted ring, that mark means something specific.
Our home city. The shop is on 93rd Avenue North. Trees over eight inches across are protected on most residential lots here.
Every city we serve: Minneapolis · St. Paul · Maple Grove · Plymouth · Brooklyn Park · Champlin · Osseo · Rogers · Dayton · Corcoran · Medina · Maple Plain · New Hope · Crystal · Golden Valley · Blaine · Coon Rapids · Anoka · Fridley · Columbia Heights · Roseville · Shoreview · Arden Hills · St. Louis Park · Edina · Minnetonka · Eden Prairie · Bloomington · Richfield
Not on the list? Call 612-532-9996 and ask. Close to the list usually means yes.
Before You Call Anybody
The tree between your sidewalk and the street is usually the city’s, not yours. That single fact decides who pays, who schedules it, and whether a contractor is even allowed to touch it. It works differently in each of the three cities below, and getting it wrong is how homeowners end up paying for a tree the city would have handled for free.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board plants, prunes and removes every tree on public property, boulevards included. No living public tree comes down without written MPRB permission, and permits for work on public trees are issued to approved companies only, never to the homeowner. Your own trees are yours.
Saint Paul Forestry manages the boulevard trees. Any work on one, planting, pruning, stumping or removal, needs an approved Forestry permit. The permit itself is free and we can file it for you. Work on public trees has to be done by a city-licensed contractor.
It varies by city, and the surprise is usually on the private side. Maple Grove protects trees eight inches across and up on most single-family lots, so the tree in your own back yard can still need city sign-off before it comes down.
We check this before we quote, in every city. If the tree is the city’s, we will tell you to call them instead of writing you an estimate for it.
Two Things That Are True Metro-Wide
Hennepin and Ramsey are both under the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s emerald ash borer quarantine, along with 58 other counties. Ash logs, ash chips, ash tree waste and any hardwood firewood cannot leave a quarantined county without an MDA certificate. This is why a legitimate crew will not simply haul your ash wood wherever it likes, and why “we will take the wood off your hands” is worth a question.
Minneapolis and St. Paul have both finished removing their public ash. Minneapolis took out roughly 40,000 public trees; St. Paul finished its structured removal programme in 2024 after about 31,700. What is left is on private property. That is your tree and your bill.
The Minnesota DNR tells homeowners not to prune or wound oaks from April through July, when sap beetles carry oak wilt spores to fresh cuts. University of Minnesota Extension draws the line wider, April through October, and St. Paul Forestry recommends the same wider window. Every source agrees that November through February is safe.
If a limb is hazardous and genuinely cannot wait, the DNR’s own guidance is to seal the cut immediately with wound paint or shellac, because a fresh wound stays vulnerable for about five days. That is work we can do properly in the risk window. Cosmetic pruning is not.
Same Standard Everywhere
Planned removals, from a dying boulevard maple to a 70-foot ash over a garage. Tree removal →
Usually the cheaper and safer way down when access is bad. Crane removal →
Tree on the house, across the drive, into the lines. Any city on this page. Emergency →
Structural pruning, clearance, deadwood. We will not top a tree. Trimming →
A certified arborist looks at it before anybody sells you a treatment. Tree care →
Assessment, treatment where it still makes sense, removal where it does not. EAB →
Ground below grade, chips out, ready to seed. Stump grinding →
No Mystery
A photo helps more than anything. Most people are standing at the tree when they call.
Free, everywhere on this page, with no travel charge. Gabe or a certified arborist, not a commission salesperson.
Access, equipment, cleanup and disposal, itemised. We stick to our estimates.
Ground protection where it is needed, debris raked, grass blown out. Like it was our own yard.
From Your Neighbours
“He was also transparent with me about not spending another dime on one of my trees that appeared stressed and giving it a few years before deciding what to do with it, saving me from doing unnecessary or even harmful work on that tree.”
Courtney Barton
Talked out of the work
“Gabe (owner) has an awesome crew working for him. These guys were efficient, thorough and professional with my large 70' ash tree removal project.”
Tom Schibilla
Large ash removal
“They raked up all the debris and even took leaf blowers to fluff up the grass. Seriously!”
Jeff Matthies
Cleanup
Questions
If your city is named on this page, yes. If it is not, call 612-532-9996 and ask. Being close to the list usually means yes. Being an hour out usually means we will point you to somebody closer, and we would rather tell you that in thirty seconds on the phone than waste your afternoon.
No. The estimate is free everywhere on this page and there is no travel charge on the visit. Distance affects scheduling, not price. Further-out work gets planned into a route rather than squeezed in.
Usually the city, not you. In Minneapolis the Park and Recreation Board is responsible for every public tree including boulevards, and no living one comes down without written MPRB permission. In St. Paul, Saint Paul Forestry manages boulevard trees and all work on one needs a Forestry permit. Suburban rules vary. We check before we quote.
Yes. Minneapolis requires a Tree Servicing licence for cutting, trimming, grinding, chipping, removing or hauling, and requires the licensed company to have a certified arborist. St. Paul requires tree care companies to be licensed through its Department of Safety and Inspections. Minnesota also requires every commercial tree care provider in the state to be registered. We hold all of it, and our MN Tree Care Registry number is #20190969.
Planned work is typically scheduled within days to a couple of weeks depending on the season, the city and the equipment the job needs. Spring and the weeks after a storm are busiest. Emergencies are a different queue.
Yes. A tree on a house, across a driveway or into a power line is triaged ahead of planned work in every city on this page. Call 612-532-9996. Do not go near anything touching a line.
No. The crew that shows up is our crew, in our trucks, in every city on this page. That is the whole reason we are careful about how far we claim to go.
Yes, and for some work winter is the better season. Frozen ground means less lawn damage from equipment, bare canopies are easier to read, and November through February is the one window every Minnesota authority agrees is safe for pruning oaks.
Free Estimate · No Obligation
A photo and a ZIP code is enough to start. A certified arborist will tell you what it needs, including when the answer is that it does not need anything.
Ask your neighbour, then call.
