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The ultimate list of maple syrup festivals, events and activities up north in Ontario! Check out these sweet festivals, events and activities.

These sweet maple-centric things to do are near and far north from Toronto, depending on how long you want to drive. It’s all do-able as easy day trips or overnight getaways.

Featured Maple Syrup Festivals Featured Maple Syrup Festivals

Tap into Maple

Ontario’s Lake Country – March 1 – April 30, 2020

Starting on March 1st and running through to April 30th, the Tap into Maple route was created to support and showcase local maple syrup, maple products and events. Filled with a variety of different stops throughout the region, the Tap into Maple route will get your senses flowing and your mouth watering. Come and experience maple history, taste local maple cuisine, and create your own maple products. You can even stay awhile, local accommodation have some sweet maple packages available for you! Bring your family or getaway as a couple. Make sure to pick-up your Tap into Maple passport at participating locations.

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Muskoka Maple Festival & Trail

Self Guided Trail March 13 – April 24, 2020

Build Your Own Maple Experience! Step 1. If you are coming from out of town, and need accommodation, choose from one of the Muskoka Maple overnight packages. Step 2. Once you have your Maple headquarters, build your own Maple itinerary with Signature Maple Experience.

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Sweetwater Harvest Festival * CANCELLLED *

Wye Marsh, Midland – March 28-29, 2020

Escape to a time when maple syrup was made over an open fire, experience history and explore nature at its best. The festival celebrates the history of maple syrup, and the role it plays in our cultural and natural heritage. Sweetwater is not your average maple syrup festival. Yes there are sugar shack tours, pancakes and taffy tasting, but there is so much more to the weekend long festival. There are birds of prey and reptile/amphibian talks; wilderness survival, cooking and woodcarving demos; and of course chickadee feeding.

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Annual Buckhorn Maplefest * CANCELLLED *

McLean Berry Farm, Buckhorn – March Weekends 2020

At Maplefest, there are a ton of fun activities for the entire family. Whether it’s going for a wagon ride, eating pancakes with fresh maple syrup or seeing how the sweet stuff is made, there is something to do for everyone! Kids and kids at heart love tapping their toes and swinging their hips to live music, trying their hand at tapping a maple tree and testing their toffee on snow twirling skills to get a taste of the sweet stuff! Farm animals and fresh straw offer playtime for some, while others prefer to take a stroll through the sugar bush with a pair of snowshoes. Whatever it is you’re looking for this spring, McLean’s Maplefest is a great way for everyone to shake off a long winter and enjoy the celebration of springs arrival.

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Maple Slurp

Yours Outdoors, Haliburton Highlands – Selected dates through March & April, 2020

The sap is a runnin’. Join us for a tour and tasting at Esson Creek, an exciting new maple syrup operation. Meet owners Mark and Sandra Bramham, they have a few stories to tell. You will walk on snowshoes ( conditions permitting) through their sugar bush to see how it is managed for maple syrup production. You will also discover the terroir of maple syrup.by tasting syrup from a variety producers and locations. We will even give you a taste of birch syrup!

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Maple Mayhem

Muskoka Lakes Farm & Winery, Bala – April 10-12, 2020

Rain or shine, we’re spending three days celebrating maple harvest!

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Tap into Maple Getaway for 2

Casino Rama Resort, Orillia * Resort Currently Closed *

March – April tba, 2020

Stay with the Tap Into Maple Getaway Package for Two. Hotel package includes: Deluxe King Suite in our Luxury Hotel, Complimentary Hotel Valet Parking for one vehicle, $50 Resort Credit – can be used for dining or spa services, non transferable, Mammoth Maple Breakfast for 2 in Weirs ($40 value) & $10 in Free Slot Play Per Person (Players Passport Club members only, membership is FREE!

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The Magic of Maple

Millcroft Inn & Spa, Caledon

March 1 – April 9, 2020

Enjoy the magic of maple this March and April at Millcroft Inn and Spa. Your getaway includes overnight accommodations plus a gift of a bottle of locally produced maple syrup and two maple flavoured treats.

Discover the world of maple with a guided walking tour of the sugar bush to see the tapped trees and how the sap is collected. Finish the tour with a taffy making demonstration using fresh warm syrup. This 1 hour tour is not to be missed, remember to sign up at the front desk!

Maple Festivals & Events

Across Ontario

Maple Weekend * CANCELLED *

April 4-5, 2020

Join us at a participating sugarbushes and explore how maple products are produced, from tree to table. A list of participating Maple Weekend maple syrup producers is available on the Maple Weekend website, along with further details about specials and activities for visitors. Activities range from pancake breakfasts to sugar bush trail adventures, sugar making demonstrations, taffy on snow, horse-drawn sleigh-rides and more!

Bruce Peninsula, Southern Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe

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Tap into Maple

March 1 – April 30, 2020

Starting on March 1st and running through to April 30th, the Tap into Maple route was created to support and showcase our local maple syrup, maple products and events. Filled with a variety of different stops throughout the region, the Tap into Maple route will get your senses flowing and your mouth watering. Come and experience our maple history, taste our local maple cuisine, and create your own maple products. You can even stay awhile, our local accommodators have some sweet maple packages available for you!

A Very Hewitt’s Easter Egg Hunt

April tba, 2020

Join us for our 2nd annual Easter Event at Hewitts Farm Market, Bakery & Fun Farm! This wonderful family event invites families to come enjoy our farm, farm animals and farm fun at our first event of the year!

Friday April 19th & Saturday April 20th from 11am to 3pm

Sweet March Break Fun

March tba, 2020

Shaw’s Sugar Bush

Experience the production of maple syrup, enjoy horse and wagon rides through sugar bush and taffy on the show.

Sweetwater Harvest Festival * CANCELLED *

Wye Marsh, Midland

March 28-29, 2020

Escape to a time when maple syrup was made over an open fire, experience our history and explore nature at its best. The festival celebrates the history of maple syrup, and the role it plays in our cultural and natural heritage. Sweetwater is not your average maple syrup festival. Yes there are sugar shack tours, pancakes and taffy tasting, but there is so much more to the weekend long festival. There are birds of prey and reptile/amphibian talks; wilderness survival, cooking and woodcarving demos; and of course chickadee feeding.

Maple Weekend * CANCELLED *

Ontario’s Lake Country

April 4-5, 2020

Maple Weekend gives you​ a first-hand opportunity to see how maple products are produced, from tree to table. There will be free samples and lots of fun! You can visit all 9 local sugar houses free of charge and learn about the centuries-old craft of maple sugaring. ​​Enjoy pancake breakfasts, sugarbush trails, sugar making demonstrations, taffy on snow, horse-drawn sleigh rides, and more.

Spring Tonic Maple Syrup Festival * CANCELLED *

Tiffin Conservation Area, Utopia

April 4-5, 2020

Start with a pancake and sausage breakfast, complete with maple syrup made at Tiffin, then explore and enjoy live music, a horse-drawn wagon ride and an animal show, plus lots more.

Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival * CANCELLED *

April 25, 2020

The town of Elmvale transforms into an outdoor mall with streets filled with vendors offering all things maple including syrup, all types of delicious food, books, collectables and other treasures. Make sure to stop by the Sugar Shack information booth for directions & tickets for the bus to the sugarbush tours, and get a copy of the Festival Directory. Plan a visit to the Community Hall, you can’t miss it, you’ll smell the delicious aroma of pancakes and sausages – our all day pancake breakfast, a must for all visitors. As you chow down on this delicious fare, enjoy the sweet sounds of North of 50 and musical talents from our many special guests.

Pefferlaw Creek Farms Maple Syrup Festival * CANCELLED *

March 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 & April 4-5, 2020

Come visit us and share in the excitement of the maple production season. We will have wagon rides through the farm, taffy for our guests, activities for young and old, and tours of the maple operation. You will get the authentic sugaring experience and get to see a fully operational maple syrup farm in action and watch as we make our pure organic maple syrup right in front of you!

Wiarton’s Maple Magic * CANCELLED *

Wiarton

March 21-22 & 28-29, 2020

Activities include: a selection of Pancakes & Sausage Meals with Regal Point Maple Syrup, Maple Candy Floss & Maple Taffy-on-Snow, Elk Tour, Log Sawing Contest, Willie Bush Walk Hiking Trail, Maple Syrup Production Tour, Mount Haymore (climbing fun for kids big & small), Children’s Playground. Ride to the Regal Point Sugar Bush on Tractor Pulled Wagons. Entrance is by Donation.

Maple Sugar Moon * CANCELLED *

Grey Roots Museum, Owen Sound

March 28, 2020

Grey Roots invites you to experience the joy of maple! Enjoy a hearty pancake breakfast from Kiwanis with real maple syrup. Taste some fresh maple taffy from DeJong Acres. Sample fragrant cedar tea and listen to stories of the very first maple sugar moon! Make your own bannock, try your hand at tree tapping, and see how sap gets boiled into syrup. And so much more

Holstein Maple Syrup Festival * CANCELLED *

Holstein

April 11-12, 2020

Maplefest takes place in a 40 acre working sugar bush. All day Pancake and Sausage Breakfast is served daily. Over 30 great demonstrations and displays including Fergus Highlands Pipe Band, Blacksmith, Taffy Pull, Candle Making, Ice Cream Making, Catapults and lots more!

Haliburton Highlands to the Ottawa Valley

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Maple Fest

Haliburton Highlands Museum

March tba, 2020

A Haliburton spring tradition returns! Learn all about how early settlers would have made their own maple syrup over an open fire and taste the sweet results! Also, join us for great family drop-in programming throughout the week.

Maple Syrup Season

Wintergreen Maple Products & Pancake Barn

March tba, 2020

Nothing is more Canadian than the majestic Sugar Maple Tree: inspiration for our national flag, painter of our glorious autumn landscape, source of excellent hardwood and producer of the sweet sap from which Maple Syrup is made. From birch bark containers to log troughs, to wooden buckets and iron kettles, to plastic pipelines and oil-fired and reverse osmosis systems, Maple Syrup remains as it always has been; our first taste of springtime in Ontario…our sweet heritage.

Carefor Maple Brunch and Competition

Pembroke

March 8, 2020

Pastry chefs from Ottawa Valley’s best Bakeries, Restaurants, Caterers and Accommodations will be battling against each other to see who makes the “Best Maple Dessert in the Valley!”

Festival of the Maples

Perth

April 25, 2020

On scenic downtown Gore Street and at other venues in Perth, you’ll discover fantastic shops, vendors offering award-winning maple products, displays, stage entertainment, lots of kids’ activities and more.

Pakenham Maple Run Tour

April 4-5, 2020

Experience great art, crafts, a working maple syrup bush and local history. Take a tour at one of the Seven Wonders of Lanark.

Maple Syrup Harvest Season

Wheeler’s Maple Heritage Museum, McDonalds Corner

See how Maple Syrup is made at the sugar bush. Self guided tours, nature trails, heritage displays, pancake meals, and maple syrup available for sale.

Kawarthas Northumberland

Buckhorn MapleFest

McLean Berry Farm, Buckhorn

March weekends, 2020

At Maplefest, there are a tons of fun activities for the entire family. Whether it’s going for a wagon ride, eating pancakes with fresh maple syrup or seeing how the sweet stuff is made, there is something to do for everyone! Kids and kids at heart love tapping their toes and swinging their hips to live music, trying their hand at tapping a maple tree and testing their toffee on snow twirling skills to get a taste of the sweet stuff! Farm animals and fresh straw offer playtime for some, while others prefer to take a stroll through the sugar bush with a pair of snowshoes.

Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival

Sunderland

April 4-5, 2020

People travel great distances each year to see what riches the little town of Sunderland has to offer. They come to join in the festival fun and to be part of a small town community filled with love, drive and spirit. Everyone enjoys the exciting variety of events taking place during the festival weekend.

Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival

Warkworth

March tba, 2020

Parking available at the village for free and free shuttle buses to the locations for the festival.

South Eastern Ontario

Maple Madness

Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area

March 7-8, 14-22 & 28-29, 2020

March means maple syrup at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area near Kingston, Ontario. Ride a tractor-drawn wagon to our sugar bush. Learn how maple syrup was made then and now.

Delta Maple Syrup Fest

April 18-19, 2020

This is an annual spring event in Delta, held on the third weekend in April, features pancakes with maple syrup served at the Delta Fair Grounds, visits to sugar bushes, and sales of maple products and crafts.

Algonquin Park, Almaguin Highlands, Muskoka and Parry Sound

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Muskoka Maple Trail

March 13 – April 24, 2020

Build Your Own Maple Experience! Step 1. If you are coming from out of town, and need accommodation, choose from one of our Muskoka Maple overnight packages. Step 2. Once you have your Maple headquarters, build your own Maple itinerary with our Signature Maple Experience below.

Muskoka Maple Festival

Huntsville

April 25, 2020

The first annual Muskoka Maple Festival was a tremendous success. Over 3,000 visitors packed the streets of downtown Huntsville to celebrate Canada’s most beloved natural product, maple syrup.

Northern Ontario

Powassan Maple Syrup Festival

Powassan

April 25, 2020

Events and attractions that will be back at the Festival will include sheep shearing, Scottish heavy events, horse-drawn wagon rides, sugar bush tours, a full-day of musical entertainment, craft and food vendors on Main Street. Festival include cooking with Maple Syrup demonstrations as well as some events specifically for children. We are also very pleased to announce the return of the West Coast Lumberjack Show.

York, Durham & Headwaters

Taste of Maple

Headwater

March – April tba, 2020

Discover and taste the magic of Headwaters’ maple syrup in a variety of products. With 25 participating locations, there is sure to be something to satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth this maple season. Enjoy family fun activities at the Maple Syrup Festival, learn how to cook a delicious maple inspired meal, paint your very own maple tree masterpiece, or make it a date night with maple infused prix fixe meals.

Sugar Bush Maple Syrup Festival

Terra Cotta Conservation Area

March 14 – April 12, 2020

Come out and tap into spring! Enjoy demonstrations, wagon rides, activities…. and of course pancakes and real maple syrup! Special family-fun activities on weekends and March Break!

Maple Syrup Sugar Shack Tours Maple Syrup Sugar Shack Tours

Many of the maple syrup producers in Ontario celebrate the season with sugar shack tours, pancake breakfasts and horse-drawn sleigh rides through the sugar bush.

Buckhorn MapleFest, McLean Berry Farm, Buckhorn

Brooklands Farm, Bracebridge in Muskoka

Lalonde’s Maple Bush Tours, Elmvale

Maple Bluff Farm, Huntsville in Muskoka

Maple Harvest at Fulton’s Sugarbush, Pakenham Ottawa Valley

Mark’s Muskoka Maple, Huntsville in Muskoka

Proulx Sugarbush, Cumberland

Sugarbush Hill Maple Farm, Huntsville in Muskoka

Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival, Kortright Conservation Centre

Shaw’s Sugar Bush, Orillia in Ontario’s Lake Country

Stanley’s Olde Maple Lne Farm, Edwards, Ottawa Valley

Steamy Kettle Sugar Bush, Barrie

Sweetwater Maple Syrup Supplies & Sugarbush, Bracebridge in Muskoka

Wheeler’s Maple Syrup Pancake House, Lanark Highlands

Wintergreen Maple Syrup & Pancake Barn, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands | Ontario Highland’s Tourism

Ontario Maple Syrup Facts

Maple Syrup is one of Canada’s 4M’s that goes with Canada’s Moose, Mountains and Muskies! Ontario has more Maple Syrup production than most other provinces. This spring tonic welcomes spring and indicates warmer days, melting snow and ice. A visit to the Maple Sugar Bush, or a visit to a Maple Syrup Festival adds smiles to kids and laughter for the family.

Maple Syrup Health Facts

The most information you need to know is that maple syrup is good for you (within reason of course). 54 beneficial compounds are found in maple syrup.

Maple Syrup Grades

Most maple syrup buyers assume bottles labelled “Canada No. 1” or “Grade A” offer the best grade of the product, but those classifications might not be to everyone’s taste.

Maple Tree Saplings may offer new production methods for Maple Syrup….he iconic sugar bush could soon be joined by a radically different landscape, thanks to a discovery by researchers.