MAPLE SUGAR TIME

March 01 - March 02, 2025
10:00AM - 4:00PM

Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during the annual Maple Sugar Time festival. Take a self-guided tour of the sugaring operation at historic Chellberg Farm which will be bustling with maple sugaring activities. Learn how Miami and Potawatomi Tribes first boiled maple sap into sugar and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup. While walking along the maple trail you will pass by the sugar shack where sap is still boiled down the way the Chellberg family did it back in the 1930s. You can even learn how to make maple syrup at home as well as how modern maple sugar farmers use advanced technology to make syrup today. Kids can learn how to tap a tree at the Maple Fun Zone and meet some of the farm animals. Before heading home, stop by the farmhouse gathering room to purchase Indiana-produced maple syrup and related products. This event is sponsored by the Friends of Indiana Dunes. For more information on how to join The Friends, visit dunefriends.org.