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We will post the date we will be retiring the wreaths at a later date. If you would like to assist with this, please meet us at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery and dress for the weather.
Gloves and broom sticks/dowels helpful.
Drivers with pickups needed.
Yes, currently you can purchase wreaths online or via mail for 2025 Wreaths Across America event.
We will have a LIMITED NUMBER of wreaths available for purchase on December 13th at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery at the table outside the main gate. $17 CASH ONLY. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
Fort Bliss National Cemetery at 5200 Fred Wilson Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79906
For 2025 wreaths, the deadline for sponsoring is November 24th, 2025.
If you are not participating in the event, please find parking across the road from the cemetery.
If you are participating in the event, when arriving at the cemetery, if driving, please use the main entrance gate, cemetery personnel will direct you to parking.
Wreaths ordered by November 24th 2025 WILL be placed on December 13th 2025.
Wreaths ordered by November 18th will be placed on December 13th, 2025.
If you ordered after November 24th, and would like to place your own wreaths, please bring your receipt to the pickup table on December 13th, 2025 BEFORE 10:30.
We can not guarantee or promise that wreaths ordered after November 24th will be placed on December 13th, 2025, but we will place them the following week, starting on Monday, December 15th, 2024.
We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter! We have received a great number of late online orders and will DO OUR BEST to get them all placed as quickly as possible.
This cemetery allows a wreath on BOTH sides of the grave ONLY IF the spouse is also there.
Otherwise, it allows only ONE wreath PER GRAVE.
Not at this time.
Civil Air Patrol is a congressionally chartered, federally funded, 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
Operating in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and more than 1,400 communities nationwide, CAP’s aviation-connected volunteer professionals and engaged community members from a wide range of backgrounds and professions perform Air Force-assigned missions as a Total Force partner, as well as other federal, state and local agencies. These missions include search and rescue and other emergency services as well as disaster response, which CAP conducts for
states/local communities as a nonprofit organization.
Civil Air Patrol’s missions involve highly skilled personnel, light aircraft and vehicles, specialized communications and advanced imagery, and other technologies. CAP’s core cadet and aerospace education programs are equally effective, providing a variety of innovative youth development initiatives and award-winning aviation/STEM resources.
Returning greater than $3 in value for every $1 spent, CAP provides unequaled value to our communities, states, and nation as a force for good.
Wreaths Across America started in 1992 when the Wreath Company found themselves with an excess of wreaths nearing the end of the holiday season. Morrill Worcester, had his boyhood dream become reality when he saw an opportunity to do something special with those wreaths. They were placed in Arlington. In 2005 the project received national attention when a photo of the headstones adorned with wreaths and covered with snow circulated around the internet. In 2006, the Civil Air Patrol and other civic organizations in over 150 locations held wreath laying ceremonies simultaneously. Each year, the Worcester Wreath Company provides wreaths and ships an ever increasing number of wreaths to over 1,000 locations worldwide.
If entering via the main entrance gate, you can enter the walk through gate and look for the signs with a barcode on them. If you use your mobile phone camera to scan the barcode, you can click on the link to check-in and let us know you have arrived to pickup your wreath. This will allow us to pull your wreaths prior to your arrival at the tables.
Then go straight past the flagpole to the pickup tables in the center island in order to pick up your wreaths.
If entering through the maintenance gate on foot, turn left and walk until you see the flagpole. Then turn right at the first exit of the roundabout and head to the pickup tables in the center island.
If entering via the main entrance gate, you can enter the walk through gate and turn right to go between the Administration Building and Public Info Center/Restrooms to access the parking lot to pick up your wreaths.
If you are not participating in the event, please find parking across the road from the cemetery.
If you are participating in the event, when arriving at the cemetery, if driving, please use the maintenance gate, cemetery personnel will direct you to parking.