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Maple Syrup to be Celebrated at Lakefront

(Porter County, IN) - Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during Indiana Dunes National Park’s annual Maple Sugar Time festival.

 

The historic Chellberg Farm will feature self-guided tours and maple sugaring activities from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday March 11th and Sunday March 12th. National Park entrance fees are suspended for the weekend of the festival.  

In addition to the tours, maple-themed products will be available for sale, including maple glazed pork belly sandwiches from the Wood, Stock, and Grill food truck. Maple desserts will also be for sale from Scoops A’ more, which is serving maple flavored gelato atop waffles. 

 

Indiana produced maple syrup and related products like maple-flavored popcorn will also be for sale during the event.

 

People can also learn how to make maple syrup at home and how modern maple sugar farmers make syrup today.   

During the weekend, rangers and volunteers will be stationed along the farm trail to explain how Native Americans first boiled maple sap into sugar and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup.

 

People walking along the maple trail will pass by the sugar shack where sap is still boiled down the way the Chellberg family did it back in the 1930’s.  Kids can learn how to tap a tree at the Maple Fun Zone and meet some of the farm animals while enjoying a maple syrup snow cone.     

Chellberg Farm is located on Mineral Springs Road between U.S. Highway 20 and U.S. Highway 12 in Porter.

 

For more information on this or other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call (219) 395-1882 or visit the IDNP  website, and the IDNP Facebook page.

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