Tap into Nature during the Maple Sugar Days at Massachusetts State Parks!
Regarding accessibility, Breakheart Reservation and Blue Hills Reservation/Brookwood Farm are accessible sites for wheelchair users, including the visitor centers. At Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park, the visitor center is wheelchair accessible and the sugar house (very short distance) varies depending on snow cover. The Botume House at Middlesex Fells is not wheelchair accessible, nor is the Krug Sugarbush. Definitely call in advance to ask about accessibility and mud conditions!!!!
Saturday, March 3rd, noon
Middlesex Fells Reservation, 4 Woodland Road, Stoneham
The Tapping of the Trees!
Come to the Fells ‘sugar bush’ to tap maple trees for the upcoming Maple Sugaring’ event at Breakheart Reservation. Meet at the Botume House Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is located at 4 Woodland Road on Spot Pond. This program is free. For more information please call (781) 233-0834.
March 3 and 4th, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park, 287 Oak Street, Uxbridge
Maple Sugarmakers Open House!
Join the Blackstone Valley Sugaring Association and learn about the maple sugaring process. Please visit www.blackstonevalleysugaring.org for more information or call 508 278-6486.
Saturday, March 17th, 9:00 a.m.-noon
Breakheart Reservation, 177 Forest Street, Saugus
Pancake Breakfast!
Join the Friends of Breakheart Reservation at the Christopher P. Dunne Visitor Center at Breakheart Reservation for their annual Pancake Breakfast. Visitors can eat delicious pancakes and watch DCR staff working in the Sugar Shack to see how syrup is made. There is a $5 admission fee. For more information please call (781) 233-0834.
Sunday, March 18th, 10:00 a.m.-2:00p.m.
Breakheart Reservation, 177 Forest Street, Saugus
Maple Sugaring!
Learn about the history of maple sugaring, participate in a tree identification activity, tap a maple, watch the evaporator at work in the Sugar Shack, and best of all taste the results! A $4 admission will support the program, used directly for the equipment you will see in action. For more information please call (781) 233-0834.
Saturday, March 10 & Sunday, March 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Brookwood Farm in the DCR Blue Hills Reservation in Milton
Maple Sugar Days!
It’s sugaring time in the Blue Hills! Join us as we make maple syrup in the traditional way at beautiful Brookwood Farm in Milton. Put on your boots and flannel shirt and join in the outdoor fun! Learn how to identify a sugar maple and see the sap drip into buckets from the trees. Travel along the trail of time and meet costumed characters demonstrating the changes in maple sugaring methods from Native Americans to Yankee farmers to modern day technology. Smell the wood smoke as you watch clouds of steam rise from the bubbling sap. Savor the taste of real maple syrup. Enjoy a free shuttle ride on the Maple Express Trolley. Activities are appropriate for all ages. Program admission is $6.00. Children under 2 are free. Maple Sugar Days is a joint program of the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Massachusetts Audubon’s Trailside Museum. The program admission fee is charged to benefit the Trailside Museum. This program is wheelchair accessible. For details or more information call (617) 698-1802 or (617)333-0690
Weekdays during March
Krug Sugarbush, Chesterfield
Maple Sugar Tours!
Join the Park Staff at the Krug Sugarbush weekdays during the month of March to see how maple syrup is produced. Visitors will learn first-hand how the sap is collected from maple trees and boiled down to produce pure maple syrup. Operation is based on weather, so please call one day prior to your visit. Advanced group reservations are welcome. For more information please call (413) 268-7098. (D.A.R. State Forest)
All events, programs and activities are subject to change. Please take a moment to call ahead to confirm and check on accessibility.
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