News Release

42nd Maple Sugar Time at National Park

News Release Date: February 28, 2020

Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during the annual Maple Sugar Time festival at Indiana Dunes National Park. In addition to ranger-led tours of the sugaring operation at historic Chellberg Farm, a delicious pancake breakfast will be available for purchase from the Chesterton Lion's Club. The farm will be bustling with maple sugaring activities from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on the weekends of March 7-8 and March 14-15.
 

Learn how American Indians first boiled maple sap into sugar and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup. Then, stand in the warm steam of the sugar shack where sap is still boiled down the way the Chellberg family did it back in the 1930s. Kids can learn how to tap a tree and can meet some of the farm animals at the Maple Fun Zone. Don’t forget to get your free taste of pure maple syrup.
 

Warm up in the farm house and collect recipes featuring maple syrup. Indiana produced maple syrup and related products like maple-flavored popcorn will be for sale. You can even learn how to make maple syrup at home and how modern maple sugar farmers use advanced technology to make syrup today.
 

The festival is located at 618 North Mineral Springs Road in Porter, Indiana. For more information on this or other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call 219-395-1882 or visit our website at www.nps.gov/indu.
 

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Indiana Dunes National Park is one of 419 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 3 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.