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Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during the 47th annual Maple Sugar Time Festival at Indiana Dunes National Park. Come out and tour the sugaring operation at historic Chellberg Farm. This family-friendly event is sponsored by the Friends of Indiana Dunes, Inc. and the farm will be bustling with activities from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10.
Learn how Native Americans first boiled maple sap into sugar and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup. While walking along the maple trail you will pass by 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 at the Maple Fun Zone and can meet some of the farm animals while enjoying a maple syrup snow cone.
Before you head home, tour the farmhouse to see what’s cooking on the woodstove or purchase Indiana maple syrup from the Friends of Indiana Dunes. You can even learn how to make maple syrup at home and how modern maple sugar farmers make syrup today.
If you can’t make the festival weekend, feel free to stop by Chellberg Farm and visit with our volunteers at the sugar shack from Saturday March 2, through the festival weekend.
Indiana Dunes National Park has an entrance fee of $25 per car for a 1–7-day pass. A $45 annual pass for the national park is also available. Please purchase passes or pay the entrance fee at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center, Paul H. Douglas Center, or at www.recreation.gov/sitepass/indu. Veterans/Military/Gold Star Family, Access, and 4th Grade passes are available for free. For more information on national park passes go to www.nps.gov/indu.
Chellberg Farm is located on Mineral Springs Road between U.S. Highway 20 and U.S. Highway 12 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 and our Facebook page. To learn more of the Friends of Indiana Dunes and the support they provide to the parks, go to dunefriends.org to find out how you can help too.
Indiana Dunes National Park is one of more than 400 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.
Last updated: February 23, 2024