Celebrate Maple Sugaring Season in Connecticut

February and March are the peak sugaring months for more than 200 sugar-makers as they produce the sweetest maple syrup in the country. During those months, plumes of steam can be seen drifting from sugar houses and evaporators as you drive throughout Connecticut.

Visiting a sugarhouse is not only a fun learning experience, but when you buy Connecticut Grown maple syrup, you are contributing to the protection of Connecticut farms and their working landscapes. You become part of the solution of protecting farmland, stimulating the local economy, supporting small businesses, and preserving this time-honored tradition of maple sugaring in Connecticut.  

Find a sugarhouse near you with the Maple Syrup Producers Association of Connecticut's map of sugarhouses throughout the state. Prior to your visit, make sure you call ahead to ensure you can experience the sugaring process first hand.

Shop in person or online at Connecticut sugarhouses for locally made maple syrup, candy, peanuts, cream, kettle corn, fudge and beyond. Connecticut maple products can also be found at farmers' markets across the state. Here are a couple of places to find local sweet treats.

Connecticut loves to celebrate maple season! Here are some of the most popular events happening this month:

Maple Sugar Fest Sundays
Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford (March 1, 8, & 15): In the museum's Sugar House + Cidery, watch demonstrations on historic and modern methods of sugaring, along with fun seasonal offerings, including traditional favorites like maple syrup treats.

Maple Sugar House Demonstrations
Woodbury Sugar Shed, Woodbury (Weekends in March): Stop by and take in the sights and smells of maple syrup production at the Shed's open sugar house. Sample a variety of maple syrup grades and discover your new favorite flavor. Learn about how and why maple syrup became an important part of New England’s heritage.

Plymouth Maple Festival
Plymouth Green, Plymouth (March 7): Watch maple syrup boiling on an outdoor fire and learn to do your own backyard sugaring.  Enjoy all things maple, including French toast, baked goods, baked beans, and sugar on snow, while listening to the fiddle music of Down Home Frolic. Take home maple syrup, maple sugar, and maple confections made in Plymouth.

Pancake Breakfast and Maple Sugaring Demonstration
Indian Rock Nature Preserve, Bristol (March 7): Enjoy a pancake breakfast with pure maple syrup and learn more about maple sugaring. Try your hand at tapping a tree, and watch maple syrup production in progress. Buy maple syrup and candy to take home!

Maple Festival
Sweet Wind Farm, East Hartland (March 14): This historic farm is offering guided tours, pancakes, live music, children's activities, and demonstrations. Just in time for some cabin fever relief.

Syrup Saturday: A Pancakes & PJs Party
New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan (March 14): Annual end of syrup season celebration with fun syrup-related activities including tree tapping demonstrations, a real maple sap “boil down,” and a real versus fake syrup taste test.

Maple Weekend
Auerfarm, Bloomfield (March 14-15): Enjoy a pancake breakfast, sample fresh maple syrup, and get a tour of the farm's maple trees. Watch farm educators tap the trees and collect sap, then follow the steam to the sugar shack to watch the sap get boiled down into maple syrup.

Hebron Maple Festival
Town of Hebron (March 21 & 22): Enjoy the great outdoors while having fun tasting maple products and learning about the maple sugar houses.

Maple Weekend in Connecticut
Statewide (March 21 & 22): During these two days, many sugarhouses across the state will be open for tours and selling their products. 

Eastern CT Maple Festival
East Brook Mall, Mansfield (March 28-29):  This event promises wholesome family fun, with maple sugaring demonstrations, presentations on the history of maple syrup, kids' activities and games, food trucks, and plenty of maple treats.

Maple sugaring season starts early in the year, so be sure to check out these events in 2027!

Adopt-a-Tree: Maple Syrup Program
New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan (late January): All ages and families are welcome to learn about and participate in the entire syrup-making process.

Tap-a-Tree Maple Sugaring Program
Ambler Farm, Wilton (late January): Learn the science and history of maple sugaring by being a hands-on part of the process. You can come out to the Farm to collect sap from your tree. See the sap get boiled down the sugar shack and then get your own bottle of Ambler Farm Dark Maple Syrup to bring home.

Maple Sugaring Demonstrations
Dudley Farm, Guilford (mid-February): Get outside and watch how maple syrup is made at this historic farm.