Every service below starts the same way: a certified arborist evaluates your tree on-site,
then gives you a written quote with no obligation.
Every service below starts the same way: a certified arborist evaluates your tree on-site, then gives you a written quote with no obligation.
Safe, controlled takedowns for dead, hazardous, or declining trees, including tight-access Denver lots and trees near homes and power lines. When removal is the right call, we say so; when it isn't, we tell you that too.
Structural and health pruning to ANSI A300 standards that reduces storm risk and keeps mature trees strong instead of over-thinned.
Removes the trip hazard and re-sprout risk left after a removal, restoring usable yard space.
Diagnosis and treatment for the insects and diseases that hit Denver species hardest, from a Certified Spray Supervisor.
Turf care that complements a healthy canopy across your property.
Targeted trunk-injection treatments, including EAB protection for high-value ash trees.
We also provide plant healthcare, deep-root fertilization, EAB treatment, arborist consulting,
commercial and HOA contracts — one certified team for the whole property.
We also provide plant healthcare, deep-root fertilization, EAB treatment, arborist consulting, commercial and HOA contracts — one certified team for the whole property.
Aurora Tree Care · Local & Family-Owned Since 2003
Removal, pruning, stump grinding, treatments and lawn care across every part of Aurora. An ISA Certified Arborist walks the property before anything is quoted, and our shop sits on Norfolk Street — so this is the shortest drive we make.
Aurora licenses the companies allowed to cut your trees. Ask us for ours, then ask the next company for theirs.
Free on-site assessment · Written quote · No obligation
Ironwood Earthcare is an ISA Certified Arborist tree service based at 312 Norfolk St, Unit A, in Aurora, and has worked in the city since 2003. The six services are tree removal, tree trimming and pruning, stump grinding, pest and disease control, trunk injections, and lawn fertilization and weed control. Aurora City Code requires any company cutting trees for hire inside the city to hold a tree trimmer’s licence, and the city publishes a list of licensed arborists.
Aurora City Code makes tree work a licensed trade. Most homeowners have never been told that, which is exactly why the truck that knocks on your door after a windstorm is hoping you do not ask. These four questions take ninety seconds and they are the same four we would want asked of us.
If a company hesitates on any of the four, you have your answer and it cost you nothing. Ironwood answers all four in writing before a saw comes off the truck.
A job in a 1950s bungalow street and a job on a 2005 prairie lot are not the same job. The assessment changes depending on which Aurora you live in.
Median build years of 1952 and 1953, on lots around 6,500 to 7,800 square feet. Seventy-year-old trees on small lots means clearance work: limbs over roofs, roots under walks, and rigging planned around a fence line that is twelve feet from the trunk.
Median build year 1975. This is the era that produced most of Aurora’s street-tree canopy, now 40 to 60 years old and reaching the age where removals and structural pruning both start to come due. Trees planted the same year reach the same decision point the same year.
Median build years 2005 and 2006, lots from 5,662 to 9,147 square feet. Twenty-year-old trees and a completely different job: structural pruning now, so you are not paying for removals in 2045.
Nearly every complaint people have about tree companies comes down to the same thing: something happened that the homeowner never agreed to. These five exist so that cannot happen here.
Emerald ash borer was confirmed in Aurora in 2025, with damage found near Quincy Reservoir and on South Fundy Way. Forestry Superintendent Gopal Ghimire put the timing plainly: “This is the best time to start monitoring this pest and start treatments if you really want to save the ash trees in your yard.”
Adrian Camacho, Aurora’s Manager of Open Space and Forestry, was blunter about the arithmetic: “This is a pest that is here, and it’s emerged in the whole region. All (Ash) trees will succumb to this insect over time.”
The number that matters to you is the ownership split. The city can only treat the ash it owns. Roughly 110,000 ash trees stand in Aurora and the large majority of them are on private property — which means the decision about your ash tree is yours, and nobody from the city is coming to make it.
Aurora has been under a Stage 1 water shortage since April 2026. Outdoor irrigation is limited to two assigned days a week, nothing between 10 AM and 6 PM, and there is a drought surcharge of $2.15 per thousand gallons above 110% of your winter-quarter average. In the first three months the city issued 1,280 residential warnings and 27 fines.
Here is the part that costs people trees. Lawn irrigation was never watering your trees properly anyway — it wets the top few inches across the whole yard, and a mature tree needs deep water at the drip line. Cut the sprinklers by half and the turf goes brown, which is survivable. The tree quietly starts dropping roots, which is not.
Aurora publishes its own prescription for young trees, and it is a hose rather than a sprinkler: “leaving a trickling hose at the base of the trunk for 30 minutes during each watering” — every two weeks in April and May, weekly June through August, every two weeks in September and October, and monthly through winter whenever it is above 50 degrees. Mulch four inches deep and kept three inches off the trunk.
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“Derek… refused to try to upsell me on treatments I didn’t need but had been quoted as necessary by two other companies. He also was not afraid to let me know I could check with an independent source as to whether his assessment was correct compared to the others.”
— Michael H. · Verified Google Review
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“ZERO limbs broke off of my 80 year old siberian elm! Storms like we just had leave me feeling scared not knowing if the tree was going to break onto the house.”
— S. S. · Verified Google Review
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“I generally do not leave reviews but the service I received from Ironwood in trimming my 4 trees was exceptional. Robert, Jesse, Chewy, and Jack were wonderful to work with and made sure I was completely satisfied with the results.”
— Terry S. · Verified Google Review
Six: tree removal, tree trimming and pruning, stump grinding, pest and disease control, trunk injections, and lawn fertilization and weed control. All six run out of the Norfolk Street shop here in Aurora, and the same ISA Certified Arborist diagnoses all of them — so a property that needs three of them gets one visit and one written quote, not three.
Yes — for the company doing the work. Aurora City Code Sec. 26-556 makes it unlawful to cut, trim, prune or remove trees for hire in the city without a tree trimmer’s licence from the forestry division, and Sec. 26-528 requires the work to be directed by a licensed arborist at that company. Aurora publishes a list of licensed arborists. Ask any company for its licence before you hire it, including us.
We have not been able to verify that Aurora requires a homeowner permit for a private tree, so we will not tell you that it does. Article X of Chapter 26 covers contractor licensing, not homeowner permits. If your tree is a city street tree rather than a yard tree the rules are different, and the forestry division is the place to confirm it before anyone cuts.
We do not quote tree removal over the phone, and a number given without seeing the tree is a guess. Access, height, what is underneath and how much has to be carried by hand decide the price. A 40-foot cottonwood in an open front yard and the same tree in a fenced back yard between two houses are not the same job. The on-site assessment and the written quote cost nothing either way.
Yes. EAB was confirmed in Aurora in 2025, with damage found near Quincy Reservoir and on South Fundy Way. Aurora has put the citywide figure at roughly 110,000 ash trees, the large majority on private property. If you have an ash, the decision to treat or remove is yours to make and it is better made this season than next.
Check your assigned days with Aurora Water before you turn anything on — the rules changed in 2026 and they are enforced with real fines. What we can tell you is that sprinkler time is not tree watering. Aurora’s own guidance for young trees is a trickling hose at the base of the trunk for 30 minutes, spaced by season, with four inches of mulch kept three inches off the trunk.
Call 303-366-3020 and you will be told the next available assessment slot while you are on the phone. Our shop is at 312 Norfolk St, Unit A, in Aurora, so this is the shortest drive we make. If a limb is already down or a tree is leaning on a structure, say so when you call — that work is triaged by risk. We are open Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and do not run an after-hours service.
One ISA Certified Arborist behind all six, and one written quote if you need more than one of them.
Tree Removal · Tree Trimming & Pruning · Stump Grinding · Pest & Disease Control · Tree Injections · Lawn Fertilization & Weed Control
Denver · Centennial · Parker · Castle Rock · Highlands Ranch · Englewood · Littleton · Greenwood Village
The assessment is free, the quote is written, and the crew that shows up works out of a shop on Norfolk Street, not a call centre in another state.
312 Norfolk St, Unit A, Aurora, CO 80011 · Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Serving Aurora and the Denver metro since 2003