Illuminating ‘Jersey’: 800 recycled Christmas trees may help set world record

It’s an “experience” for the record books.

A British man created a Christmas tree maze constructed from 800 recycled trees and it may set a new world record for the largest display of illuminated Christmas trees.

Bino Rodrigues constructed the “Jersey Christmas Tree Experience” at Howard Davis Park in Jersey, an island in the English Channel off the northwest coast of France from salvaged trees deemed unsellable.

When he found out that he was toying with a world record, he added more trees to the display.

“We’ve been planning this for several months and one night myself and my team were stuck inside and one of the production team said, ‘You know you’re nearly at a world record,’” he told the BBC.

“What we did was reach out to a couple of businesses who import Christmas trees and just said, ‘Whatever stock you have left, we’ll take,’ so it just added a little bit more to what we already had.”

Rodrigues is awaiting confirmation from the Guinness World Records that he earned the title.

The current world record for the largest display of illuminated Christmas trees is 797, set in 2019 in in Shelton, Wash.

To create the maze, Rodrigues got trees that were considered unsuitable to sell and were going to be shredded from a farm in England.

“The Jersey public will help us support saving these trees, everyone gets to feel good about doing something for the trees,” he said.