Observing real maple syrup production is a truly Canadian experience. Treat yourself and the whole family to the sweet freshness of maple syrup as the winter weather begins to warm. Here are 25 maple farms, sugar shacks and pancake houses to visit in Ontario.
Maple season runs from Early March to Mid to late April.
For Sugar Bush Experiences in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, see – Maple Syrup Festivals & Experiences in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area
- A list of 10 upcoming festivals and tours is given at the end. For a complete list, see here.
Fulton’s Sugar Bush Season
The Fulton Family has been producing small, craft batches of maple syrup since 1840. Their store offers 80 different products and three different syrup grades: golden, amber, and dark. Treat yourself and your family to a winter sleigh ride on the four trails that make up the Fulton property.
2024: February 17-April 14, 2024
Address: 399 Sugar Bush Rd, Pakenham
Phone: 613-256-3867
Proulx Maple & Berry Farm
Visit the Proulx Maple Farm and check out their annual Maple Fest. Admission to the festival will include taffy in the snow, entrance to the farm, and a choice of dessert and drink. Snowshoe or hike along 4 different trails and visit their sugar bush to observe their maple syrup production.
2024: Weekends from March 3rd to April 14th, 2024
Address: 1865 O’Toole Rd, Cumberland
Website
Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm
Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm offers tours of their sugar bush, as well as an onsite-store to purchase maple products. Stanley’s offers a delightful blend of activities for all ages, featuring taffy-on-the-snow, tractor rides, a barn with animals, and a scrumptious pancake breakfast at the Pancake House with a unique Pay-By-Weight system. Visitors can also explore the Sugarbush, learning about maple syrup production in a 150-year-old sugarshack and meet barn animals, ensuring a fun, educational, and tasty experience for everyone.
2024: Weekends & March Break, March 2 through Sunday April 14th.
Address: 2452 York’s Corners Rd, Edwards
Wheelers Pancake House, Sugar Camp & Museums
Enjoy a meal at Wheelers Pancake House is nestled in the centre of a 730-acre forest browse through Maple Heritage Museum and Forest & Farm Museum, look around the sugar camp, hike/snowshoe/cross country ski nature trails, and buy beautiful organic Maple Syrup
2024:
January 7 – Feb 29 (+Family Day): Saturday & Sunday 9am-3pm
March 1 – April 21 (+Easter Monday): Tuesday – Sunday 9am-3pm
April 25 – June 30 (+Victoria Day): Thursday – Sunday 9am-3pm
Address: 1001 Highland Line, McDonalds Corners
Phone: 613-278-2090
Website
Temples Sugar Bush
Temples is a family-run restaurant and maple farm located just west of Ottawa. Visit their charming pancake house. Choose from hand-crafted items such as pure maple syrup, maple butter, and even pancake mix! Enjoy a stroll along their nature trail.
2024: Wednesday to Sunday, March 1 to April 21, 2024
Pancake Breakfast Menu: Buttermilk Pancake Special ($18.95)
Wild Blueberry Pancake Special ($16.95)
Gluten Free Buttermilk Pancakes $19.95)
Cinnamon French Toast ($16.95)
Farmers Breakfast ($21.95)
Address: 1700 Ferguson Falls Rd, Lanark.
Phone: 613-253-7000.
Website
Sand Road Maple Farm
Take in all the maple: maple trees, maple sap, maple syrup, maple candy, granulated maple sugar, maple butter and maple taffy at Sand Road Maple Farm which boasts of 75 acre mature forest, a majestic large pine lodge, and pure Canadian Heritage experiences.
March 3 to April Mid, 2024
Address: Sand Road, Moose Creek
Phone:613-538-2991
Website
Bata Maple Sugar Bush
Maple syrup production began as a hobby in 1971 for Frank and Karen Haveman, but in 2017, they decided to step up their game to include 1200 new taps. With a new sugar shack built, which included a parking lot, the Bata Maple Sugar Bush was then able to welcome groups and schools to tour the grounds and visit the sugar shack. Products for purchase include both bottles and jugs of freshly made maple syrup.
2024: Only on Ontario Maple Weekend
Address: 254 Bata Road, Quinte West
Phone: 343-645-6405
Website
Trillium Ridge Sugarworks
This family-run farm has been producing maple syrup for over 40 years. Enjoy their homemade pancake brunch, served every Saturday in March until the end of April. Their sugar bush is home to award-winning syrups and welcomes both small and larger group tours. You can pick up a fresh bottle directly from the farm during the month of March or find their products year-round within Toronto and the GTA.
2024: tours, and school visits: Early February through to the first weekend in April
pancake brunch on Maple Weekend only (April 6th & 7th).
Address: 254 Maple Sugar Rd, North Tyendinaga
Phone: (613) 396-5141
Website
Fort Rose Maple Company
The Fort Rose Maple Company is a family-owned maple syrup producer, pancake house, and wholesale distributor, tapping roadside maple trees since the 1940s. Over time, their operation has expanded into 8000 taps, with 80% of their syrup sold to retailers. Their buffet-style pancake house and store carries a selection of maple syrup and related goodies.
2024:
Every Saturday & Sunday, February 24th to March 31st, 2024 | 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
March Break – March 11 to 15, 2024 | 9 pm to 2 pm
You can take wagon rides to the Sugar Bush and enjoy a self-guided tour of Fort Rose Maple Company.
Address: 27382 Coldstream Rd, Parkhill.
Phone: 519-232-9041
Website
Mapleside Sugar Bush
Mapleside Sugar Bush continues to embrace old-fashioned practices while integrating newer technology into its syrup production practice. Through their historical sugar shanty, a tour includes a beautiful walk through the maple forests where you can learn about the sap is processed into delicious maple products. Or check out their store for a selection of syrups, condiments, and maple toppings.
2024: You can visit sugar bush and learn how Ontario’s first agricultural crop is harvested and processed during Ontario Maple Weekend. Take a walk in the maples and see the maple shanty where the syrup is made every spring.
Shop open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily
Address: 166 Reiche Rd., Pembroke
Phone: (613) 735-2366
Website
Sandy Flat Sugar Bush & Pancake House
You can go for sugar bush tours, horse-drawn sleigh or wagon rides, and enjoy pancake breakfast at this maple farm located in Warkworth.
2024: March 9 & 10 during Warkworth Maple Festival
Address: 500 Concession Rd 3 W, Warkworth
Phone: (705) 924-2057
Website
Walt’s Sugar Shack
This family-owned Maple farm will be open for self-guided sugar bush tours and pancake breakfast. You can also get GMO-free, grass and grain-fed beef in addition to baked goods, and pork products. The shack is also open to see the maple syrup process.
2024: Every weekend in March from 10 am – 4pm.
Address: 1671 Salem Rd, Consecon – Prince Edward County
Phone:613-885-4805
Conboy’s Maple
Experience pure maple syrup produced inside the original sugar shack, located on the Conboy family farm. In 2016, the Conboys upgraded their process to include reverse osmosis and an efficient, wood-burning oven. You can purchase their syrup products directly from their farm via a reservation. The Conboys also participate in the annual Maple Weekend, where you can find their delicious syrups and products.
2024: During Ontario Maple Weekend
Address: 2559 Bell Line Rd, Sharbot Lake
Website
Shaw Catering
For more than a century, the Shaws have been tapping their forest to produce sweet maple syrup. You can see maple production with over 4,500 trees all connected with tubing to collect around 180,000 litres of watery maple sap each season. The pancake house is open for tasty treats and there are also horse-drawn wagon rides through the trails on weekends.
2024 Hours: Saturday February 17th, 2024 and will be open daily from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm until Sunday April 14th, 2024.
Address: 493 Oro Line 14 South, Oro-Medonte
Phone: 705-325-4347
Website
Breedon’s Maple Syrup
Breedon’s Maple Farm, a first-generation family business since 1995, offers educational tours during March and April showcasing modern and pioneer syrup production methods, including sap collection through a vast tubing network, evaporation, and bottling with environmentally responsible technology. Located in Simcoe County, the farm taps over 5000 trees and features a farm store with a wide range of maple products. The farm, active in production, welcomes guests to share their passion for maple, with a store offering various maple products.
2024 Hours: March & April – Every Saturday, March Break, March 11 – March 16 & Maple Weekend
Address: 3662 Concession 3 Adjala Township, RR1 Alliston
Phone: 705-435-5269
Website
Kortright Centre for Conservation
Experience the essence of spring at Kortright Centre with pancake breakfasts, maple syrup demonstrations, and family activities. Special evenings on Fridays and Saturdays offer a serene, lantern-lit forest walk, exploring the history of maple syrup production.
2024 Hours: March 9 to April 7, 2024
Address: Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley Drive, Vaughan
Phone: 416-667-6295 ext.3
Website
Terra Cotta Conservation Area
Explore Terra Cotta Conservation Area’s maple syrup event this spring, featuring educational demonstrations on syrup production from Indigenous methods to modern techniques. Participate in activities like the Sweetwater Discovery, Settled into Spring, and enjoy maple treats from the Park Store. Engage in Sacred Fire Chats, blacksmith demonstrations, a scavenger hunt, a maple-themed storybook walk, warm maple taffy, and delicious pancakes. Discover the journey of sap on the Sap Bucket Trail.
2024 Hours: March 14 to 17, 23 and 24, 2024
Address: Terra Cotta Conservation Area, Winston Churchill Boulevard, Halton Hills
Phone: 416-667-6295 ext.3
Website
Shaw Catering
For more than a century, the Shaws have been tapping their forest to produce sweet maple syrup. You can see maple production with over 4,500 trees all connected with tubing to collect around 180,000 litres of watery maple sap each season. The pancake house is open for tasty treats and there are also horse-drawn wagon rides through the trails on weekends.
2024 Hours: Saturday February 17th, 2024 and will be open daily from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm until Sunday April 14th, 2024.
Address: 493 Oro Line 14 South, Oro-Medonte
Phone: 705-325-4347
Website
Elliott Tree Farm
2024: Weekends, February 17 – April 7, 2024
Address: Elliott Tree Farm, 9467 Erin East Garafraxa Townline, Hillsburgh
Phone: 519-216-0699
Website
McLauhlan Family Pancake House
The McLauhlan Family has been producing pure maple syrup on their lot for 150 years. 7 generations later, this family-run business located outside of London is continuing its tradition by offering customers delicious syrup and maple products. In addition to their pancake house, you can visit their store both onsite or online to check out hand-crafted maple items.
2024: February 16 to April 7, 2024
Learn about how our family makes maple syrup, enjoy a walk on our nature trail, and of course enjoy some delicious pancakes with our maple syrup.
Address: 10279 Lamont Dr, Kamoka
Phone: 519-666-1846
Website
Blyth Creek Maple Farm
In addition to Maple tours, a pancake house and other maple-related activities, you can enjoy visiting farm animals, trying your hand at archery and taking a tractor ride.
2024: weekends from March 9 through April 7, 2024
Address: 42232 Moncrieff Rd., Blyth
Phone:
(519) 357-7558
Website
Richardson’s Farm & Market
Richardson Farm Market has more than just maple syrup and sugar bush tours. They offer all sorts of vegetables, fruits, preserves and you can watch the sap being boiled and enjoy some piping hot pancakes, sausage and pure maple syrup. During a normal season (non-COVID), take wagon ride to the sugar bush for a guided tour of how sap is collected, using both buckets and modern pipeline.
2024:
Tours: Saturday March 9th and Tuesday March 12- Saturday March 16, 2024
The Sweetest Smell on Earth Maple Experience: Saturday March 2nd, or 23rd, 2024
Address: Richardson’s Farm & Market, 131 River Road, Dunnville
Phone: (905) 774-7507
Website
Agape Valley Sugar Bush
Agape Valley Sugar Bush, nestled in the Niagara Region, spans 140 acres and invites visitors to enjoy a menu of pancakes and sausage at their Pancake House, without reservations. Free sugarbush tours offer educational walks and hayride shuttles to explore maple syrup production. The Maple Store sells onsite-made syrup, honey, and treats like the beloved maple taffy. Proceeds support their affordable day camp for families.
2024:
Address: Agape Valley, Kilman Road, Ridgeville
Phone: 905 892 4273
Website
White Meadows Farms
Experience an authentic sugar maker life at White Meadows Farms. The experience includes sugar bush camp, Sugar Bush Trek with guided tours, Taffy-on-Snow, and fun activities like Sap Line Maze and more!
You can also buy sweet treats to take home.
2024:
Weekends from March 2 until April 7
March Break (Mon – Fri)
Address:
White Meadows Farms, 2519 Effingham St., St. Catharines
Phone: 905-682-0642
Website
Conservation Halton Parks
This year Conservation Halton is offering Maple Season at Mountsberg Conservation Area and Crawford Lake Conservation Area. You can enjoy several exhibits, take a wagon ride through the sugar bush, pancakes, maple taffy on snow and have a chance to meet the raptors of the park and the animals at Cameron Barn.
2024: Weekends, March 4th to April 9th.
Address:
Mountsberg Conservation Area, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville.
Crawford Lake Conservation Area, 3115 Conservation Road, Milton.
Wintergreen Maple Products & Pancake Barn
Experience the most traditional family activities at Wintergreen Farm. You can watch how maple syrup is made, savour freshly made Maple Syrup on pancakes, and other seasonal activities.
2024: Maple tours, pancake house and free maple taffy for kids on weekends (every Saturday and Sunday during March and April at 2:00 pm )
Address: 3325 Gelert Road, Minden
Phone: 705-286-3202
Website
Camp Can-Aqua Maple Syrup & Supplies
Since 1991, Camp Can-Aqua Maple Syrup and Supplies has stood out from other producers by offering a variety of equipment, books, labels, and containers for sale, in addition to bottled maple syrup. You can arrange a tour of their sugar shack simply by phone. Guests of the tour can sample pure maple syrup, as well as an endless list of supplies for those looking to get into maple syrup production.
2024: Call to tour sugar shack.
Address: 503 Beaver Lake Drive, Box 70, Cardiff
Phone: 613 339 2969
Website
Hoover’s Maple
Hoover’s Maple syrup farm hosts a wide array of events, including tours of their sugar shack. Hoover’s takes great pride in ensuring the organic quality of their syrup by taking additional steps when processing the sap. They are also members of the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers and the winner of two awards in 2020.
2024: Guided Tours Family Day Weekend and Every Saturday & Sunday from February 24 – April 21, 2024
Address: 5896 Line 78, RR # 1 Atwood (Perth County)
Phone: 519-356-2132
Website
Rock Maple Lodge
The Rock Maple Lodge is located just outside of Cambridge, where four different grades of pure maple syrup are brewed using 3200 maple trees. Visitors are welcome to visit the sugar shack any day during the month of March. You can pick up a range of bottled syrup sizes in a range of sizes from the lodge, or you can call directly to arrange a pick-up.
2024: Drop in anytime between 8am and 5pm during the maple season. Call before you go.
Address: 2491 Norman Rd. Branchton
Phone: 519-654-7078
Website
Our Sugar Bush
For over 40 years, the Underhill Family has been operating their sugar bush, creating local maple syrups and products, which you can buy directly from their shop. On occasion, Our Sugar Bush hosts a special pancake day for friends and family, where samples of the maple syrup can be tasted. Visitors are welcome to check out the Sugar Shack anytime during the maple season. You can also experience Our Sugar Bush products during the annual Maple Weekend.
2024: Beginning Sunday March 3, 2024, 9 am-3pm
Address: 8759 Toll Gate Rd. Straffordville
Phone: 519-866-3629
Website
Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush
The Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush hosts an array of guided tours of their sugar shack for both small and large groups. In addition to their onsite events, you can also visit their Pancake Pavillion to taste their homemade pancakes and fresh maple syrup. Retail products include jams, jellies, and butter, in addition to traditional bottled syrup.
2024: February 17 to March 17, 2024 – Tours & Pancake Breakfast
Address: 21201 Lakeside Dr. Thorndale
Website
Sugarbush Hill Maple Farm
See the 3,200 tap “State Of The Art” sugaring operation and celebrate the arrival of spring at Sugarbush Hill located 10 minutes south of Huntsville. Learn about maple heritage and history, go on tours, and discover various maple value-added products.
2024: March 9th onwards daily, 10 AM – 4 PM, Sunday 12-4. Closed Mondays
Address: 2389 Muskoka Rd 10 West, Huntsville
Phone: 705-787-9787
Matthews Maple Syrup
With a history of maple syrup production going back to early 1920s, Matthews Maple Farm offers tours, walks in the forest and samplers of various maple products. They also have horse drawn sleigh/wagon rides in the sugar bush on weekends and throughout March Break during normal maple season.
2024: Shop open: March and April | Open Daily 9am-5pm
Address: 239 Ski Hill Road, Powassan
Phone: (705) 724-3427
Bella Hill Maple Syrup
Tour Sugar House and Sugar Bush, and get delicious maple products at this maple farm located in Nipissing.
2024: Weekends and Holidays in March and April, 10am to 4pm
Address: 47 Bella Hill Road, Powassan
Phone: (705) 724-3647
Gilbertson’s Maple Products
Since 1936, the Gilbertson’s have been producing maple syrup and maple products on their property, located outside of Windsor. Their syrup making operation and pancake house welcomes customers to experience both the process and the taste of authentic maple syrup. Enjoy breakfast items and homemade maple pastries or purchase their Maple Signature products from their gift shop.
2024: Monday March 4th – Saturday April 20th 2024
Address: 3365 A Line, Richards Landing
Phone: 705.246.2066
Upcoming 10 Maple-Themed Events
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