New York State Maple Weekends are March 22, 23, 29, and 30, 2025.
Please note that some of these spots may be cash-only due to the nature and location of each business.
New York State Maple Weekend is a series of events held each spring to honor the tradition of maple syrup production. During these two weekends, local maple syrup producers open their doors to the public, offering tours of their operations and delicious, amber-colored syrup tastings.
Visitors can learn about maple syrup production and even participate by tapping trees and collecting sap. In addition to touring sugar houses, many maple syrup weekends also feature live music and pancake breakfasts.
With their warm atmosphere and mouthwatering maple treats, New York State Maple Syrup Weekends are a delightful way to experience our maple heritage. Here are some of my favorite places to celebrate!
Monroe County
Genesee Country Nature Center
Mumford, Monroe County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30
10 a.m.–3 p.m.
This outdoor event features a variety of activities across the museum’s grounds, including maple history presentations, live music, vendors, food, bonfires, hands-on activities, and storytelling—fun for the whole family.
Explore the maple sugaring process firsthand at the Nature Center, where you can enjoy sugar-on-snow tastings, learn tree-tapping techniques, and discover the traditions of Hodinöhsö:ni’ maple production.
Stroll through the Historic Village to witness 19th-century maple recipes, ice harvesting, and traditional woodworking demonstrations. Shop local vendors under the festival tent. Enjoy delicious pancakes with museum-made maple syrup, maple-infused treats, craft beverages, and sweet confections.
Keyes’ Trout Brook Sugarhouse
Honeoye Falls, Monroe County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Stop by the Alpaca farm to pick up pure New York State maple syrup and alpaca fleece. The farm is open seven days a week for online orders, and phone and email orders are also accepted—call (585) 624-5648 or email info@troutbrooksugarhouse.com to schedule a pickup order.
Greater Rochester
Cumming Nature Center
Naples, Ontario County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Enjoy a locally sourced meal with all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, and drinks—all served with real maple syrup, of course! We source our ingredients from Finger Lakes favorites like New Hope Mills, Bostrom Farms, Pittsford Farms Dairy, and Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters. Gluten-free and vegan-friendly options (Bob’s Red Mill pancakes) are available upon request.
Each pancake breakfast ticket includes complimentary admission to the Maple Sugaring trail demonstration, a 0.25-mile walk with guided stations exploring tree tapping, sap science, and the historical uses of maple sap, and a taste of real maple syrup at the sugarhouse.
Flint’s Maple
Warsaw, Wyoming County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Experience a guided tour of the sugar house, pump house, and woods. You can also enjoy samples of syrup, cream, candy, sugar-infused syrups, and other unique products, including mustards, pizza, wings, BBQ sauces, ketchup, and lemonades.
Humphrey Nature Center
Letchworth State Park, Wyoming County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Head to the Humphrey Nature Center for a weekend full of maple-themed activities. Learn about three maple sugaring techniques: Haudenosaunee stone boiling, iron pot fire pit cooking, and modern evaporator. Hourly walks led by park naturalists will highlight maple tree identification, how to tap a tree, cap collecting, and more.
Thanks to the Friends of Letchworth State Park, pancake breakfasts will be purchased from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In addition, you can enjoy Maple SAPturdays in February and March.
Kettle Ridge Farm
Victor, Ontario County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Enjoy a selection of hearty maple-inspired breakfast foods in their heated barn, accommodating approximately 140 people. After sampling maple products to take home, bring your chair to relax by one of the outdoor fire pits. Be sure to check out their sugar-house demos. They also host Pancake Sundays starting in January.
The Naples Maple Farm
Naples, Ontario County
at the Wohlschlegel Estate
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Pancake breakfasts on the farm will occur on March 1, 8, 15, 22, 23, 29, and 30. Enjoy fluffy pancakes, sausage, fresh hot syrup, and a variety of coffee, tea, and juice. Enhance your experience with tours and tastings. Naples Maple combines traditional sugaring techniques with gourmet flavors, including bourbon barrel-aged, vanilla bean, cinnamon, and espresso maple syrup.
Packard Valley Farms
Macedon, Wayne County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
The horse-drawn wagon rides, sugar shack, bush tours, petting zoo, and pony rides are available all four days. Enjoy a tractor ride between the farm and the Log Cabin Restaurant for a pancake breakfast with Packard Valley Farms maple syrup.
Schoff’s Sugar Shack
Victor, Ontario County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 23, 30
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Schoff’s Sugar Shack will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Sundays, and the Victor Village Inn will offer a pancake breakfast with Schoff’s maple syrup from 9 a.m. to noon.
Shadow Hill Maple Syrup
Ontario, Wayne County
2025 Shadow Hill Maple Festival
Every Saturday and Sunday in March
8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Enjoy an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring pure maple syrup and explore a range of maple products available for sampling and purchase. Sample various maple products in the region, walk the trails through the sugarbush to see how sap is collected, and learn how maple syrup is made.
Timber Trails Forest Farm
Canandaigua, Ontario County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes in the state-of-the-art, eco-friendly Maple Lodge, which operates on 100 percent electricity with no carbon emissions. You can tour the 625-square-foot timber-framed Sugar House and learn about the traditional wood-fired maple syrup method.
Surrounding Counties
Cartwright’s Maple Tree Inn
Angelica, Alleghany County
The 2025 season will run from February 4 through April 5. Cartwright’s Maple Tree Inn serves all-you-can-eat buckwheat pancakes with 100% pure maple syrup. Despite its remote location, the Inn has attracted customers worldwide.
Since 1963, Cartwright’s has been serving pancakes with maple syrup, but the Cartwright family’s syrup-making tradition goes back to the 1850s. After facing multiple challenges, including destroying their sugar shacks by fire, Ronald and Virginia attempted to construct a new sugar shack and a restaurant in 1963.
Wolf Maple Products
Middleport, Niagara County
2025 Maple Weekend Schedule
March 22, 23, 29, 30
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
You can see, smell, and taste the sugaring process. Weather permitting, tram rides will take you to the sugar bush. Additionally, there will be a petting zoo, demonstrations, and displays with maple treats and concessions.
What is Maple Weekend?
Maple Weekend is an annual event organized and sponsored by the New York State Maple Producers’ Association. It allows the public to visit farms, learn about New York’s maple sugarmaking processes and traditions, and taste pure maple syrup in various forms. The association, funded by its members and the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, aims to showcase the unique family traditions of making maple syrup in New York State and celebrate the state’s first agricultural harvest of the season.
Visitors can meet the producers who make New York the second-largest maple-producing state in the U.S.
During Maple Weekend, participants can taste pure and natural maple products, learn how maple syrup and other confections are made, and experience sustainable agriculture practices. The event spans four days on two weekends and began in 1995 as a single “Maple Sunday,” evolving into a multi-day tradition.
Maple Weekend takes place at various locations across New York State, offering agritourism at its best. Visitors can witness the maple-making process firsthand, from the cooking down of sap to creating different maple products. While most sites offer tours and product samples free of charge (with museums being an exception), some locations may provide on-site pancake breakfasts at an additional cost. Breakfast prices vary by location, and visitors are advised to check for exceptions at their planned destination.
Given many locations’ rustic and often muddy conditions, attendees are encouraged to dress in layers and wear closed-toe or insulated footwear. Maple Weekend promises a family-friendly environment where participants can enjoy and appreciate the maple sugarmaking experience.
Did you know that Maple Syrup is entirely a North American product?
New York, Vermont, and Ontario, Canada, are the prime commercial locations for harvesting maple tree sap to produce syrup. One of the best ways to enjoy maple syrup is by pouring it over a stack of pancakes. You can also use maple syrup to flavor food and drinks like cotton candy, ice cream, BBQ sauce, milkshakes, mustard, scones, cheesecake, popcorn, hot chocolate, baked beans, and sugar on snow.
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Perl’s near Varysburg sometimes does maple open houses at their farm, too.
I saw on TV of a Granny’s Maple syrup pancakes. Is was around this area.