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Maple Events Near You

Feb 2, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Maple and Backyard News

Greetings fellow maple lovers! We’ve been eager to create a blog post listing maple events for a while now. With the start of the new year and the maple season already underway for some of us, we thought this would be the perfect time to share a list of maple events and where they are happening throughout 2025! Here are the maple events near you!

Whether you’re a seasoned sugarmaker or just starting out, these events offer something for everyone. You can learn more about maple sugaring techniques, refine your skills, connect with other maple enthusiasts, sample local maple products, and simply enjoy the wonderful world of maple, including maple-inspired music, performance and shenanigans! We’ve included events from across the United States, as well as some in Quebec and Ontario, so no matter where you are, there’s likely something interesting to discover near you.

If you know of an event that is not listed here but should be, please let us know! Our aim is to update and publish this list annually for our customers, fans and fellow maple aficionados. Thanks!

Maple Events Near You in New England:

Vermont Maple Conference Week
Location: Online and in Randolph, Vermont.
Dates: Annually in December.
Description: A week-long event packed with informational sessions and classes covering both beginner and cutting-edge topics culminating in the Vermont Maple Syrup Makers’ Association’s annual meeting and trade show.
Website: https://vermontmaple.org/maple-conferences

Vermont’s Spring Maple Open House Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses and participating maple partners throughout the state.
Dates: March 22-23, 2025
Description: The sweetest celebration in Vermont! A weekend for scenic drives through the state, visiting a sugar house or two, and taking in the best the season has to offer. Come early, stay late, and try Vermont’s classic sugar-on-snow, maple donuts, maple hotdogs, maple creemees and other local, maple-inspired, specialty foods and beverages.
Website: https://vermontmaple.org/mohw

Vermont Maple Festival
Location: St. Albans, Vermont
Dates: April 25-27, 2025
Description: A large-scale festival in the heart of maple country with a carnival, parade, live music, crafts, and, of course, plenty of maple products!
Website: https://www.vtmaplefestival.org/

Maine Maple Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Augusta, Maine
Dates: January 15, 2025
Description: A morning of technical sessions followed by lunch and the Main Maple Producers’ Association Annual Meeting at 1 pm.
Website: https://mainemapleproducers.com/events/mmpa-annual-meeting/

Main Maple Sunday Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March 22-23, 2025
Description: Most sugarhouses offer maple syrup samples and demonstrations on how pure Maine maple syrup is made. Many farms offer games, activities, treats, sugarbush tours, music, and so much more.
Website: https://mainemapleproducers.com/events/maine-maple-weekend/#!directory/map

Massachusetts Maple Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Buckland, Massachusetts
Dates: January 18, 2025
Description: Raffles, workshops, a trade-show, lunch, and the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Maple Producers Association.
Website: https://www.massmaple.org/annual-meeting/

Massachusetts Maple Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March 8-9, 2025
Website: https://www.massmaple.org/

New Hampshire Maple Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Concord, New Hampshire
Dates: January 25, 2025
Description: Enjoy a day packed with informative sessions, engaging activities, and delicious food. The event includes a buffet meal, presentations from guest speakers who will share insights and trends in the maple industry, a hydrometer clinic and the presentation of the Carlisle Award, honoring excellence in the Maple community.
Website: https://nhmapleproducers.com/

New Hampshire Maple Month/Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March, 2025, and March 15-16, 2025
Description: Follow your favorite sweet treat from the trees of the sugarbush to your table: get out for Maple Weekend in New Hampshire! Support your local sugarhouses all month long!
Website: https://nhmapleproducers.com/

Connecticut Maple Syrup Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Thomaston, Connecticut
Dates: January 11, 2025
Description: The Connecticut Maple Syrup Producers Association Annual Meeting is held in the morning, followed by lunch, a raffle and workshops. Also includes a trade show.
Website: https://www.ctmaple.org/

Connecticut Maple Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March 15-16, 2025.
Description: Visit sugarhouses and taste great maple products. During the two days, many sugarhouses across the state will be open for tours and will be selling their products. This is a great opportunity for visitors to learn how maple sap is collected and turned into delicious, sugary products.
Website: https://www.ctmaple.org/maple-weekend.html

Maple Events Near You in the Midwest:

Michigan Maple Syrup Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Dates: January 17-18, 2025
Description: An all day event with a trade show, informational sessions, the Michigan Maple Syrup Producers Association Annual Meeting
Website: https://www.michiganmaple.org/

Michigan Maple Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: Southern Lower Michigan: March 14-15, 2025, Northern Lower Michigan: March 21-22, 2025, Upper Michigan: April 4-5.
Description: Join us for one of three weekends across the state of Michigan* to experience what happens at a Michigan maple sugar bush. Trees will be tapped and sap will be flowing! Come see how it’s harvested, and then made into the delicious syrup you enjoy. You may also catch a glimpse of maple candy, maple cream, and maple sugar being made. Meet the sugar makers who work their maple magic and support these local businesses by purchasing some of their special sweet treats to enjoy at home.
Website: https://michiganmaple.org/michigan-maple-weekend-2025/

Maple Row Sugar House Maple Syrup Festival
Location: Jones, Michigan
Dates: March 15-16, 22-23, 2025
Description: Activities, all-day pancake breakfast and sugarhouse tours.
Website: https://www.michiganmaplefestival.com/

Wisconsin Maple Syrup Producers Association Annual Meeting
Location: Marshfield, Wisconsin
Dates: May 3, 2025
Website: https://wismaple.org/calendar-of-events

Wisconsin Winter Institute
Location: Marshfield, Wisconsin
Dates: January 3-4, 2025
Description: The WMSPA holds an annual maple syrup institute each January in Wisconsin. This is an event full of information for beginners to the advanced sugar maker. There are rooms full of vendors and information that does not end. Speakers and fellow syrup producers come to share information and ideas.
Website: https://wismaple.org/winter-institute

Ohio Maple Days
Location: Ashland, Ohio
Dates: Annually, in December.
Description: Join all our maple enthusiasts for this day focused on topics for maple producers and opportunities for visiting with vendors.
Website: https://woodlandstewards.osu.edu/events/ohio-maple-days-day-maple-0

Ohio Maple Madness Driving Trail
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March 1-2, 8-9, 2025
Website: https://www.ohiomaple.org/maple-madness.html

Geauga County Maple Festival:
Location: Chardon, Ohio
Dates: April 24-27, 2025.
Description: As the oldest maple festival in the United States, the Geauga County Maple Festival commemorates the production of pure maple syrup in Geauga County and Northeast Ohio.
Website: https://www.maplefestival.com/

Indiana Maple Syrup Weekend
Location: Sugarhouses throughout the state.
Dates: March 8-9, 2025
Description: Every spring, Indiana maple syrup producers open up their “sugar shacks” so that you can experience the story of maple syrup! Come visit a farm and discover how syrup is made.
Website: https://indianamapleweekend.com/

Maple Events Near You in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic:

NYS Maple Producers’ Association Mid-Winter Maple Classic Conference
Location: Syracuse, New York
Dates: January 10-11, 2025
Description: Two days of trade shows, programming and networking.
Website: https://nysmaple.com/mid-winter-maple-classic-conference/

New York State Maple Weekends
Dates: March 22-23 & March 29-30, 2025
Description: Over 100 locations across New York State will open their doors to the public with demonstrations, family-friendly activities, pancake breakfasts, and more.
Website: https://www.mapleweekend.com/

Thurman Maple Days
Location: Thurman, New York
Dates: March 15-16, March 22-23, & March 29-30, 2025
Description: A series of weekend events celebrating all things maple, with samples, tours, and more.
Website: https://www.visitthurman.com/maple-day/

Pennsylvania
Dates: Varies
Description: Events in Pennsylvania occur on a regional basis. To find the association near you, visit https://pamaple.net/producers.

Maple Events Near You in the South:

Mountain State Maple Days
Location: Sugarhouses and Supporting Businesses across West Virginia
Dates: February 15, March 15, 2025.
Description: Designed to celebrate West Virginia’s growing maple industry.
Website: https://wvmspa.org/mountain-state-maple-days/

Highland County Maple Festival
Location: Monterey, VA
Dates: March 8-9, 15-16 2025.
Description: The official maple festival of Virginia! Each year, tens of thousands of visitors are drawn to this unspoiled, rural region of Virginia to celebrate the “opening” of the trees and observe the process of maple syrup-making. Sugar camp tours provide a unique and educational experience that portrays a rapidly vanishing way of American life. In addition to pancake dinners, doughnuts and entertainment, over 100 high-quality juried vendors take part in the festival each year.
Website: https://www.highlandcounty.org/maple-festival/

International Maple Events Near You:

North American Maple Syrup Counsel Annual Meeting
Location: Held annually in various locations across North America. The 2025 meeting is in Port Huron, Michigan.
Dates: Meetings are held in October. The 2025 meeting is October 22-25, 2025.
Description: The North American Maple Syrup Council, Inc. (NAMSC) is an international network of associations representing 17 commercial maple producing states and Canadian provinces within North America.Annual meetings and international conferences rotate among maple producing states and provinces each year.
Website: http://northamericanmaple.org/index.php/annual-meetings/

Ontario

First Tappings
Location: Locations around Ontario
Dates: Vary
Description: Celebrations of the first tappings of the season around the province.
Website: https://www.omspa.ca/first-tappings

Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival
Location: Sunderland, Ontario
Dates: April 5-6, 2025
Description: A popular festival with all sorts of zany activities, live music and performances, and various vendors selling maple products.
Website: https://maplesyrupfestival.ca/sunderland/

Muskoka Maple Festival
Location: Huntsville, Ontario
Dates: April 26, 2025
Description: A family-friendly event celebrating the maple harvest in Muskoka with activities, vendors, and live music.
Website: https://www.muskokamaple.com/

Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival
Location: Elmvale, Ontario
Dates: April 26, 2025
Description: The Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival is a fundraising event whose proceeds support projects which contribute to the physical, intellectual, cultural, emotional or spiritual well-being of our community.
Website: https://www.emsf.ca/

Quebec

Festival des Sucres de Saint-Pierre-Baptiste
Location: Saint-Pierre-Baptiste, Quebec
Dates: May 15-18, 2025
Description: Come and celebrate Quebec’s history of maple syrup in the enchanting setting of the municipal maple grove, and in an over-the-top atmosphere.
In addition to feasting on maple, take part in a wide range of activities, from the Country Legends Evening to the Musical Gala, including the Family Ball Tournament and Horse Shooting, as well as a series of shows and art exhibitors, and a Family Fun Park.
Website: https://www.tourismecentreduquebec.com/en/events/festival-des-sucres-de-saint-pierre-baptiste.aspx#:~:text=May%2015%2D18%2C%202025.

Festival Beauceron de l’Érable
Location: Saint-Georges, Quebec
Dates: May 9-11, 2025
Description: The excitement that comes with sugaring-off is back in March and April when Beauce residents celebrate the new batch of maple syrup. The Festival beauceron de l’érable celebrates this sweet time of year! The program features various family, popular and educational activities, and dancing and shows highlighting the sugar maple industry.
Website: https://chaudiereappalaches.com/en/travel-quebec/la-beauce/saint-georges/festival-beauceron-de-l-erable/event/festival-beauceron-de-l-erable/

Cabane Panache
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Dates: March 20-23, 2025.
Description: Come celebrate the return of spring and the maple season like no other in Montreal. Maple taffy on snow, music to swing your hips and clap your mitts to, good food to fill your belly and local beer to quench your thirst. This is the lumberjacks’ meeting not to be missed!
Website: https://www.promenadewellington.com/fr/evenement/cabane-panache-13e-edition/

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