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New York Maple Events and Festivals

Sugar house visitors watching maple syrup being made

Visitors watching maple syrup being made during a Maple Weekend open house in Chautauqua County.

Once the warm days and cool nights have given way to consistently warmer weather, many folks around New York State celebrate the completed maple season. Upstate and downstate alike come alive with communities holding festivals complete with parades, contests and, of course, maple demonstrations and tastings.

Among those communities holding festivals are:
Albany County
Knox - Palm Sunday. 518-765-3500

Allegany County
Andover - last weekend in March. 607-478-8455

Cattaraugus County
Franklinville - last weekend in April. 716-676-9910

Central New York
Marathon - April 10-11, 2010.
Marcellus - every Saturday in March. Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods Onondaga County Park, 4007 Bishop Hill Road, Marcellus. 315-673-1350

Clinton County
Open Houses throughout county - last weekend in March. 518-493-6141

Lewis County
Croghan - 3rd Saturday in May. The American Maple Museum is a repository of maple production artifacts and offers an opportunity to learn the history of how maple is made. 315-346-1107

Putnam County
Cold Spring - mid-March. 845-265-3773

Schoharie County
Cobleskill - late April. 518-234-2067

See Us at the Fair
August 26-September 6, 2010

New York State Maple Producers Association members have a booth at the New York State Fair in Syracuse each year from late August to early September. Producers sell a variety of pure maple products plus maple snow cones and maple cotton fluff. They also make and sell nearly a ton of maple sugar during the fair. MORE >>>

Maple Weekend Discover the taste of maple. Each year, over 100 maple producers statewide open their sugar houses to the public on one or two weekends in March.

Bring your family and visit several operations to see the variety of equipment and methods used to make maple syrup and sample a variety of maple products. Many producers provide wagon rides to the woods, tapping demonstrations, and historical displays. Some producers offer pancake meals and many local civic organizations hold pancake breakfasts. MORE >>>

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