Maple Syrup Day

Sat, March 21  • 10 am-4 pm

FREE/members & all children

$7/non-member adult

Pancake meal available for additional cost, please visit our website for full details.

The woods and sugarhouse come to life in March as we make maple syrup at Chippewa Nature Center. Celebrate the ‘syruping season’ at CNC’s annual Maple Syrup Day festival with activities for all ages! Take a wagon ride to the Sugarhouse to see how we boil sap into pure maple syrup. You’ll also find an 1870s sap boiling demonstration and learn how to make syrup at home in small batches. Enjoy a guided tour of the sugarbush, practice tapping a tree or discover some sugarbush treasure with a scavenger hunt in the woods. Completed scavenger hunts will be entered into a prize drawing. Near the schoolhouse, check out maple syrup story time or the maple puppet play. Head over to the Homestead area for maple games, crafts, and a taste of “sugar on snow” as we make maple syrup taffy. If you’re still looking to satisfy that sweet tooth, stop by the Visitor Center for free tasting samples of maple cotton candy or purchase locally produced maple treats in the gift store. Enjoy a delicious pancake meal with REAL maple syrup in the new Nature Education Center. Pancake meal tickets are sold separately, and advanced online purchase is recommended. Day-of meal tickets are dependent on availability.