Spring is Maple Sugaring time! Here are Chicagoland’s top events to learn more about the harvesting and production of this sweet treat from maples trees right in our local forest preserves! Get out there and make some memories!
For more great family events, see Oaklee’s Spring issue, or search our calendar of events!
March 7 & 8, 14 & 15 in Marengo
Discover how maple trees produce sap each spring and learn how sap is collected from the trees and made at the evaporator house!
Sap’s Rising & Maple Syrup Celebration
March 7 & 8, 14 & 15, 21 & 22 in Northbrook
Walk in the sugar maple forest as winter comes to an end and learn about the sweet history of maple syrup making.
March 14 & 15 in Naperville
Learn the time-honored method of collecting sap the old-fashioned way, with maple tree tapping demo, hands-on activities & a tasty maple treat.
March 14 & 15 in St. Charles
We’ll explore the art, science, and folklore of the ‘sugar bush,’ or maple grove, from early Native American times to the modern sugaring industry.
Weekends, March 14 – 29 in Riverwoods
Take a one-hour hike with a naturalist and learn how sap from the sugar maple trees is turned into sweet maple syrup.
March 21 in Batavia
Watch how maple sap is turned into delicious maple syrup, and learn how people have tapped maple trees for maple sap.
March 21 & 22 in Chicago
Come and see the entire maple syrup-making process from tapping the tree and collecting the sap, to boiling it down into syrup.