Toronto 
Welcome the coming of spring!
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA),
Learn how maple syrup is made, try a tasting flight of different grades and types of syrup, go on horse wagon rides, enjoy fresh, hot pancakes with pure maple syrup and sausages, have taffy on snow or join for Maple Syrup by Lamplight celebrations.
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March Break in Toronto & GTA -Activities, Events and Festivals
Ontario Maple Syrup Festivals and Sugar Shacks: Maple Syrup Festivals, pancake houses/sugar shacks and maple trails to explore in Ontario.
A list of places to go to celebrate the sweet liquid gold in the Greater Toronto Area:
1. Maple Syrup Festival | Uxbridge
Enjoy Train or Wagon Ride, Self Guided & Guided Educational Tours, Camp Fire in Sugar Bush Colouring Station, Maple Sugar Products (additional costs), Indoor Pancake House, and Barnyard Playland. Details
Open Weekends in March and March Break, 2024
Brook Farms, 122-141 Ashworth Road, Mount Albert
$12.99 + HST per person for everyone 2+
2. Maple Town | Milton
It’s the sweetest time of year at Conservation Halton! The Mountsberg sugarbush has been producing maple magic for more than 150 years and educating the public for over 40 years. The park will tap about 300 sugar maples this spring and the crystal-clear sap will be magically transformed into sweet maple syrup in the Sugar Shanty. Purchase a delicious pancake meal, maple themed sweets & treats!
The sugar bush will offer park visitors independent exploration and guided tours throughout the park during their visit to Mountsberg.
Weekends, Holidays, and March Break, March 2, 2024 – April 7, 2024 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Mountsberg, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville
$4 to $12
3. Maple Syrup Festival | Oakville
Enjoy a guided tour of Maple Lane, where interpreters costumed for the 1890’s demonstrate different historical ways of collecting and making maple syrup. The tour ends in the middle of Spruce Lane Farm where you can learn how to make fresh maple sugar or enjoy a stick of delicious maple taffy before visiting the various farm animals in the yard. Details
March 3, 4, 9 to 17, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 2024 | 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 1219 Burloak Drive, Oakville
$18 per vehicle
4. Sweet Water Season | Milton
This experience focuses on the Indigenous heritage of maple sugaring through a series of exhibits throughout the Longhouse Village where visitors can take a step back in time to the 15-th century site when maple sugaring was the first harvest of the year. Sweetwater demonstrations will run throughout the day where guests can gather by the fire and learn all about the history of maple sugar making. Details
Weekends, Holidays & March break, March 2, 2024 – April 7, 2024
| 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Crawford Lake Conservation Area, 3115 Conservation Road, Milton
Park Admission
5. TRCA Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival | GTA
a. Kortright Centre, 9550 Pine Valley Dr, Woodbridge
Come out and tap into spring! Enjoy demonstrations, wagon rides, activities…. and of course pancakes and real maple syrup! Special family-fun activities on weekends and March Break!
Saturday March 9 to Sunday April 7, 2024
b. Bruce’s Mill, 3291 Stouffville Road, Stouffville
Experience the maple syrup trail at Bruce’s Mill Conservation! Enjoy demonstrations, wagon rides, activities… and of course pancakes and real maple syrup! Special family-fun activities on weekends and March Break! Details
Weekends, March Break, March 9 – April 7, 2024 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
$7.45-$11.50
6. Sugar Shack TO | Toronto
Toronto’s very own cabane à sucre is returning to downtown Toronto Waterfront with one epic weekend fuelled by maple syrup! Warm up with a glass of hot mulled cider, enjoy live music, try some delicious maple taffy and traditional sugar shack treats at the winter marketplace. Details
March 9 & 10, 2024 | 11 AM to 5 PM
Sugar Beach at 25 Dockside Dr, Toronto
Free
7. Maple Syrup in the Park | Halton Hills
Explore Terra Cotta Conservation Area this spring at Credit Valley Conservation Area’s maple syrup event. Enjoy tour maple syrup demonstrations, take a walk through Tales on the Trail, learn from Indigenous partners and more! Details
March 14 to 17, 23 and 24, 2024 | 9:30 AM to 5 PM
Terra Cotta, 14452 Winston Churchill Blvd, Halton Hills
$7.50 to $13 + HST
Maple Syrup VIP Tours
Enjoy a gourmet buffet breakfast by On the Move Catering, a guided tour of our sugarbush and educational demonstrations. Taste a variety of maple syrup grades, get a free taffy sample, $5 voucher to the Park Store and more! March 16, 17, 23, 24, 2024 | $45
Evening Tours Maple Syrup
Enjoy an interpretive wagon ride through the forest to an illuminated sugarbush. Conversation, good company, a campfire, maple themed food samplers and your choice of one signature maple-themed mocktail or cocktail served in a souvenir glass to follow. Saturday April 6, 2024 | 7:30 to 9 p.m. & 9 to 10:30 p.m. | $65
Sap to Syrup: A Maple Syrup Making Experience
An intimate, hands-on experience in the Sugar Shack. Learn how to tap trees, collect sap and use an evaporator to produce and bottle maple syrup. Take home a bottle of liquid gold. Saturday, April 6, Sunday, April 7, Saturday, April 13, Sunday, April 14 | $45
Sugarbush Wagon Rides
Start your visit with a wagon ride to the sugarbush. Learn about how maple syrup is made with demonstrations of traditional and modern maple syrup making tools. Try taffy, maple syrup samples, hot drinks, and make s’mores over a campfire. Children will receive a free wooden tree cookie to remember their day. Saturday April 13, 2024 | $20
8. Maple Syrup at the Village | Toronto
celebrate the charm of maple syrup season as the Village buzzes with the energy of early spring. Discover the old-fashioned skills needed to take this sweet treat all the way from tree to table. Our costumed educators will “spile” the beans on maple’s magic and teach you the backwoods skills necessary for adventures in the sugarbush. Details
March 11 to 15, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Parkway, Toronto
$19.80-$24.20+hst
9. Maple Magic | Mississauga
Learn about the Indigenous origins of the maple harvest, experience the process of making maple syrup, indulge in pancakes with real maple syrup, and enjoy crafts, games and guided tours of the site.
March 9, 10, 16, 17, 2024
Bradley Museum, 1620 Orr Road, Mississauga
$8.61 to $11.81
10. Purple Woods Maple Syrup Festival | Oshawa
Come out and experience a Canadian spring in our sugarbush! Sap collected from hundreds of sugar maple trees is boiled on site into delicious maple syrup. On your self-guided tour, you can visit our modern evaporator, enjoy games, activities and of course pancakes with real maple syrup. Details
March 8 to April 7, 2024
Purple Woods Conservation Area, 38 Coates Road East, Oshawa
$8
11. Maple Syrup Festival | Hamilton
Discover one of Canada’s most time-honoured and tasty traditions. Explore the making of maple syrup from the tree to the table in three different time periods. Details
Select Days, March 3 to 31, 2024
Westfield Heritage Village, 1049 Regional Road 552, (Kirkwall Road), Rockton
Park Admission
12. Maple Syrup Festival | Stouffville
Come join the fun, in one of our small group Maple Syrup Tours. Learn about the history of syrup production. Try your hand at tapping a Maple tree. Enjoy an educational puppet show all about sap and springtime. Details
March 9 to 16 | 10 AM to 3 PM | 10 AM to 3 PM
Willowgrove Farm and Outdoor Education Centre, 11737 McCowan Road, Stouffville
$15
13. Pefferlaw Creek Farms | Uxbridge
Come visit us and share in the excitement of the maple production season. You will get the authentic sugaring experience and get to see a fully operational maple syrup farm in action and watch as we make our pure organic maple syrup right in front of you! Details
Saturday and Sunday, March 2 to April 21, 2024
Pefferlaw Creek Farms, 12300 Concession Rd. 6, Uxbridge
$10
14. Cold Creek Maple Syrup Fest | King
Enjoy and pancake breakfast, learn about the process of syrup making, guided hikes to the sugar bush, tree tapping demonstrations and a variety of vendors. Details
April 6 & 7, 2024
Cold Creek Conservation Area, 14125 11th Concession
Schomberg
$12
15. Maple Syrup Festival | Sunderland
Join in for the biggest Maple Syrup party in GTA. Celebrate “big” when it comes to showcasing the sweet “liquid gold” harvested at our local farms. In addition to the chance to buy maple syrup and maple syrup products, the annual Festival invites families to enjoy a kaleidoscope of activities. It’s a feast for the senses, from start to finish. Details
April 6 & 7, 2024
Various venues, Sunderland
Free Admission
16. Ontario Maple Weekend
Join maple syrup producers from across Ontario for Ontario Maple Weekend. This free, family-friendly, two-day event is hosted by the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers’ Association, and is the perfect way to celebrate spring and the annual maple syrup season, while learning more about how maple syrup is made, from tree to table. Details
April 6 & 7, 2024
Participating producers across Ontario
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Hi there,
Just FYI while the link to more details does show the correct dates for Terra Cotta and Island Lake, however the initial page says the events run until from March 5th to April 10th. Terra Cotta was March 12-20, 26 and 27, and Island Lake was March 17-20, 26 and 27.