31 towns, counties and neighborhoods
Where we do tree work around Philadelphia
The office sits in Burlington City, at the New Jersey end of the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, and the work runs across the river into Philadelphia and its Pennsylvania suburbs as well as through Burlington and Camden counties.
Coverage
One office on the river, two states of tree work
Quick answer
Yes, we do tree work across Philadelphia and its near suburbs on both sides of the Delaware: Northwest, West and Northeast city neighborhoods, Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware counties, and Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey. If your town sits between two listed below, call and ask.
Burlington City faces Bristol across the Delaware, joined by the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, and a little downriver the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge runs from Palmyra into Tacony. Those two crossings explain the shape of this map: a band of Pennsylvania towns and city neighborhoods across the water, and the Burlington and Camden county suburbs on our bank.
The trees change a lot across that band. Chestnut Hill holds about 60 percent canopy cover, the heaviest in the city, while Mayfair and Tacony sit at 10 percent or less, and most of Burlington County lies in the Pinelands. Each area page covers what the work usually looks like there and which local rules apply.
Northwest and West Philadelphia
This is the city's big-tree country. Chestnut Hill leads Philadelphia in canopy, Mount Airy and Roxborough each top 40 percent around Wissahickon Valley Park, and Germantown borders that same 1,400-acre park, while East Falls climbs from the Schuylkill to stone houses on the rise. The city's steep slope rules limit digging on the hilliest ground, which matters when a stump has to come out.
West of the park, Wynnefield was among the hardest-hit areas when microbursts felled hundreds of city trees in July 2026, and the June 2025 storms put a tree onto a house and two cars in Overbrook.
Northeast Philadelphia
Pennypack Park is the spine of the Northeast, running through Fox Chase and along Bustleton, Rhawnhurst, Holmesburg and Mayfair. Bustleton has no rowhomes at all, Rhawnhurst filled in with postwar twins, and many Mayfair rows went up in stone just before World War II. Somerton and Torresdale reach Poquessing Creek, the line with Bensalem.
The Isaias tornado of August 2020 started in Northeast Philadelphia on its 20-mile track to Doylestown, and the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge lands in Tacony, right beside Mayfair.
The Bucks County side
Lower Bucks is mostly flat, near-sea-level coastal plain, and the Fall Line up to the Piedmont runs right through Bensalem, the county's most populous township. Levittown is 17,311 Levitt houses built from 1952 to 1958 across parts of four municipalities, so its tree rules depend on which one your house is in. In 2021, Ida's remnants sent a tornado across the river from Edgewater Park to Bristol.
The Montgomery and Delaware County side
These townships have the most written-down tree rules we deal with. Lower Merion's Shade Tree Division looks after about 70,000 trees, and a contractor needs a permit from the Director of Public Works before touching one. Cheltenham treats trees over 20 inches across as specimen trees and fines up to $600 per offense.
Delaware County packs 576,830 people into 191 square miles, and Upper Darby tops 10,000 people per square mile, so most jobs there happen on tight lots. The August 2023 wind storm uprooted or topped hundreds of the county's trees.
The New Jersey side
This is home ground. Burlington City, founded in 1677, sits on the riverbank by the bridge, and Willingboro next door was Levitt and Sons' third Levittown, laid out in lettered parks along Rancocas Creek. Marlton lies inside the Pinelands National Reserve.
Town rules matter most here. Cherry Hill requires a permit for most trees 5 inches across or larger, Moorestown treats its 6,200-plus curb-strip trees as township trees, and Evesham's 2024 ordinance governs removals around Marlton. The South Jersey permit guide sets them side by side.
Where coverage ends
Where the regular area stops
The list above is the regular service area, and it has real edges. Chester County, Gloucester County, Trenton and the rest of Mercer County, and the Jersey Shore all sit outside it, and we would rather say so on the phone than promise work there.
If you are near a line, call with the address and the job; you will get a straight yes or no, and if a storm has every crew booked, we will say that too.
Questions
Questions about the service area
Because only the river sits in between. The Burlington-Bristol and Tacony-Palmyra bridges connect our side to Bucks County and Northeast Philadelphia, and the trees, storms and pests are the same on both banks.
They change at almost every town line, not just the state line. Philadelphia handles street trees through Parks and Recreation, while Cherry Hill, Moorestown and Burlington Township each run their own tree chapters with different permits and replacement rules.
It may be, especially if it sits between towns that do have pages. Call with the address and the job and you will get a yes or no on the spot.
Recent records point everywhere: Wynnefield in the July 2026 microbursts, Delaware County in the August 2023 wind storm, and the 2021 Ida tornado path from Edgewater Park to Bristol.