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The weather outside may be frightful now with forecasts of an ominous winter storm set takeover Southern Ontario before Thursday but just as Wiarton Willy predicted spring is coming soon and Maple Season at Conservation Halton is right around the corner.
Credit: Conservation Halton
The Maple Season runs from March 4th, 2023, until April 9th, 2023 with Sugarmaker’s breakfast kicking off the celebrations this weekend.
This year Conservation Halton has three tasty offerings: the Sugarmaker’s breakfast, Mountsberg Maple Town and Crawford Lake Sweetwater Season.
The Sugarmaker’s Breakfast is as delicious as it sounds. This unique event will take place on February 25th and 26th. It is a two-hour-long experience which includes a pancake breakfast, maple taffy on snow and a syrup-tasting flight. Get a guided tour of the park and a horse-drawn wagon ride.
You will be given the unique opportunity to tap one of the park’s 150-year-old sugar maples and even hang your own sap pail. In addition, children can meet the Mountsberg farm’s animals and birds of prey. At the end of this mouth-watering experience, you get to take home a fire-branded souvenir. Tickets cost $36 +HST for adults, $32 + HST for seniors and children. Kids under 4 are free.
The Maple Town at Mountsberg will be open from March 4th to April 9th. For over 150 year Mounstberg sugar bush has been producing this sweet sticky deliciousness. Around 300 sugar maples are tapped and their sap is concentrated to produce maple syrup.
Maple town has several exhibits for you to explore and you also get a wagon ride through the sugar bush, pancakes, maple taffy on snow and a chance to meet the raptors of the park and the animals at Cameron Barn.
You can watch how maple sap is turned into maple syrup in an evaporator, educators make maple sugar on the wood stove, and enjoy hot pancakes served with maple syrup at the Pancake House.
As you explore Maple Town, you will learn about the first indigenous sugar makers and the present-day technology used to make maple syrup. You can also learn some maple trivia on the maple trivia trail. Tickets cost $12+HST for adults, $9.75+HST for seniors and $8.75 +HST for children (5-14). Children under 4 are free.
The Sweet Water experience at Crawford Lake takes you back to the 15th century through exhibits on the indigenous heritage of maple sugaring. Maple sugaring used to be the first harvest of the year. You will learn all about its history through demonstrations in Longhouse Village. This also includes guided maple syrup tasting flights and maple taffy on snow.
Tickets cost $10.50 +HST for adults, $8.25 +HST for seniors and children. Kids under 4 are free.
Maple Town & Sugarmaker’s Breakfast will be held at Mountsberg Conservation Area, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville.
The Sweetwater Season will take place at Crawford Lake Conservation Area, 3115 Conservation Road, Milton.
