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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A list of places to go to celebrate the sweet liquid gold in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area:
1. Sugar Shack TO | Toronto
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
March 14 & 15, 2026
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Toronto
Free
2. Maple Syrup Festival | Hamilton
Come discover Maple Syrup Season at Westfield Heritage Village and see for yourself how sap is turned to syrup! There will be plenty to see and do while you’re here! Demonstration sites will be open, including the modern sugar shack. Westfield will also have their maple syrup panels on display, a Maple Trivia Trail to follow, and the St. George Lions will be out to sell pancakes in the Ironwood Hall. Visitors will be able to buy maple treats from the General Store and Gift Shop. Details
Select Days, March 1 to 29, 2026
Westfield Heritage Village, 1049 Regional Road 552, (Kirkwall Road), Rockton
$5.50 to $21
3. 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
March 7 – April 22, 2026
Brook Farms, 122-141 Ashworth Road, Mount Albert
$12.99
4. 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!
Weekends, Holidays, and March Break, February 28 to April 5, 2026 | 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Mountsberg, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville
$3.25 to $13.75
- Syrup & Starlight: Experience a special two-night evening at Mountsberg featuring a moonlit wagon ride, Sugar Bush tour, and evaporator talk on turning sap into syrup. Enjoy maple syrup and Indigenous food tastings, live fiddle music, maple taffy for purchase, and shopping in the gift shop. March 7 & 28, 2026 | 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm @ Mountsberg, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville
5. 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 Weekends & March Break | 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 1219 Burloak Drive, Oakville
$18 per vehicle
6. 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 15th-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, February 28 to April 5, 2026
Crawford Lake Conservation Area, 3115 Conservation Road, Milton
Park Admission
7. 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
Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 10 am – 2 pm
Cold Creek Conservation Area, 14125 11th Concession
Schomberg
$12
8. 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!
Weekends, and March Break, Weekends March 7 – April 6 2026
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, and March Break, Weekends March 7 – April 6 2026
$7.95 to $12.35
9. Maple Syrup in the Park | Halton Hills
Explore the 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 19 to 22, 28 and 29, 2026 | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Terra Cotta, 14452 Winston Churchill Blvd, Halton Hills
$8 to $16 + HST
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 11 | 7:30 to 9 p.m. & 9 to 10:30 p.m.
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. April 4, 5, 11 and 12 | $50
10. Maple Mystery at The Villagee | Toronto
Step into springtime at The Village where something suspicious has happened in the sugarbush! As you investigate, wander through interactive maple-themed stations. Discover the skills needed to take this sweet treat all the way from tree to table and discuss how Indigenous Peoples practice maple sugaring, a tradition that has been passed down for generations and continues to inspire. Details
March 16 to 20, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Parkway, Toronto
$22.50 – $27.45
11. 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
Weekends and March Break, March 14 to 28, 2026
Purple Woods Conservation Area, 38 Coates Road East, Oshawa
$8
- Sugarbush Lantern Walk: Enjoy a tasty treat made with Purple Woods Maple Syrup, then head out to the sugarbush with a lantern. At the sugar shack, enjoy some cedar tea, taste-test different grades of maple syrup (gold, amber, dark), and learn the history of maple syrup-making by the glow of firelight. — March 27 & 28 | 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
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
Saturday, March 14 & 15, 2026 | 10:00 AM 2:30 PM
Willowgrove Farm and Outdoor Education Centre, 11737 McCowan Road, Stouffville
$15 to $16
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 7 to April 19, 2026 | 10 AM to 3 PM
Pefferlaw Creek Farms, 12300 Concession Rd. 6, Uxbridge
$10
14. 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 11 & 12, 2026
Various venues, Sunderland
Free Admission
15. 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 4 & 5, 2026
Participating producers across Ontario
Varies
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.