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Best Maple Festivals & Events in Ontario

Guide to Maple Season in Ontario 2024

You have landed on the ultimate ToDo list of maple syrup festivals and events in Ontario.

Decidedly, you can use this page as your ultimate Ontario Maple Season Guide. This way you won’t miss out on any of the sweet fun of spring. 

Maple Celebration season in Ontario starts in March. Trees can be tapped sometimes as early as February, depending on the weather.

Read on below to find the ultimate list of maple themed events and festivals in Ontario. If you’re looking for the maple production, sugar shack or maple farm to visit, you can find them here

Featured Festivals & Events

Tap into Maple
Ontario’s Lake Country – March – April, 2024

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Between March and April, take the self-tour through lesser-traveled routes to working sugar shacks. You will get a first hand view of the maple syrup process.

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Maple Weekend – Windlee Maple Farm
April 6 – 7, 2024

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Windlee Farms Maple Syrup Hosted by Peter & Anne Lorriman

Address: 10 Baseline Rd North, Tiny, ON

Hosted by Peter & Anne Lorriman

Windlee Farms will be opening their sugar bush and sugar shack by letting the public come and experience what maple syrup is all about.

Come taste pure maple syrup, smell it boil, and learn how maple syrup is made, from tree to bottle. This is what Maple Weekend is all about at Windlee Farms Maple Syrup, Tiny.

Explore the trails and take a wagon ride to the sugar bush to see the miles of pipeline and listen to the arborist in the maple bush. Windlee Farms Maple Syrup is a family owned and operated craft maple syrup producer located in Tiny, Ontario. Maple syrup has been produced from our sugar bush at Windlee Farms for over 30 years.

The property spans over 150 acres, with approximately 20 acres dedicated to the sugar maple bush.

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2024 Weekend Maple Syrup Experience & Maple Syrup Museum

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The Elliott Tree Farm Maple Syrup Experience includes entry to the Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario, all you can eat pancakes and a side of bacon and breakfast sausage with their award-winning Ontario pure maple syrup, and a walk on the sugar shack trail to their maple sugar shack to see maple syrup being made firsthand while tasting maple taffy over snow, maple sugar, sap and syrup.

The event runs from Family Day weekend to Ontario Maple weekend (first weekend of April). 

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MUSKOKA MAPLE TRAIL

MARCH 8 – APRIL 26, 2024

The most Canadian of culinary trails, the Muskoka Maple Trail features stops across Muskoka that have infused locally harvested maple syrup into their culinary offerings. From maple drizzled waffles to smoky-maple ribs, discover the incredible depth of Canada’s most beloved natural product on the Muskoka Maple Trail.

ToDoOntario features the following stops of notable mention, be sure you don’t miss these stops along this trail.

Muskoka Maple Trail Stop @ Christie’s Mill Inn & Spa 

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Enjoy “Maple Inspired” restaurant features each day of the Muskoka Maple Trail! Enjoy “Maple Inspired” restaurant features at the waterfront restaurant each day of the Muskoka Maple Trail!

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Muskoka Maple Trail Stop @ Sherwood Inn

Enjoy maple inspired dining at Sherwood Inn. Enjoy a maple cocktail and maple crème brûlée at Sherwood Inn!

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Muskoka Maple Trail Stop @ Deerhurst Resort

Enjoy a 3 course Muskoka Maple Trail table d’hote menu at Compass Restaurant from March 8 – April 26 with a special maple smoked old fashioned feature cocktail.

Also enjoy the popular Lookout Trail that will have a mini maple route set up with tapped trees and signs with facts to learn all about maple season.

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Muskoka Maple Trail Stop @ Bayview Wildwood Resort

2024 TBA

Get sapped with a maple inspired menu. Click to learn more about this delicious menu at Bayview Wildwood Resort in Muskoka. 

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Maple Menu & Spa Services @ JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka – Stop on Muskoka Maple Trail

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2024 TBA From feisty beverages and hearty meals to decadent desserts and relaxing spa treatments, JW Marriott The Rosseau Resort is infusing the goodness of maple into everything!

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Maple at the Cranberry Farm – Stop on Muskoka Maple Trail

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Bog to Bottle Tour: During sugaring-off season, the Bog to Bottle Tour (daily at 11, 1 & 3) will fuse Muskoka’s two iconic crops by combining tart cranberries with sweet maple syrup. Here you can tour the cranberry bog on your way to the sugar bush. 

Maple Menu: During maple season, unique maple flavours will be featured. 

Trail Pass: Depending on the weather, snowshoe or hike to the sugar bush. Finish in the store with a sampling of Red Maple Dessert Wine.

Muskoka Maple Trail: Make a stop here on your tour and enjoy a host of maple inspired tastes and tales.

Maple Weekend: The first weekend of April is an Ontario-wide celebration of maple syrup. 

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Maple Magic Experience in Haliburton
Yours Outdoors, Haliburton Highlands 

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Ready to make maple memories with your loved ones? Then this experience is for you! Maple Magic is geared towards families, kids of all ages and anyone who has a sweet tooth! During this ~2 hour experience, you’ll hear the ins and outs of maple syrup production, follow the impressive journey from sap to syrup, check out a real sugar shack,  and eat a pancake meal and of course!

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Sweetwater Harvest Festival 
March 23-24, 2024 

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Join the Friends of Wye Marsh and Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons for an awesome celebration of maple syrup this spring.

he Sweetwater Harvest Festival is the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre’s biggest fundraiser of the year – and ONE ticket gets you access to TWO fantastic sites. 

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20+ Of The Sweetest Ontario Maple Festivals & Experiences

Ontario Maple Weekend (Across Ontario)
April 6 – 7, 2024 

Weekend Maple Syrup Experience at Elliott Tree Farm  (Hillsburgh)
Opening Family Day 2024 

Spring Tonic Maple Syrup Festival (Barrie)
TBA 2024 

Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival 
April 27, 2024

Pefferlaw Creek Farms Maple Weekends 
March weekend and first two weekends of April, 2024 

Proulx Farm Maple Fest (Cumberland)
TBA 2024

Holstein Maple Syrup Festival 
TBA 2024

Wintergreen Maple Syrup & Pancake Barn
TBA 2024

Festival of the Maples (Perth)
April 27, 2024

Maple at the Village (Toronto)
TBA 2024

Muskoka Maple Festival (Huntsville)
April 27, 2024

Wheelers Maple Harvest Season (Lanark Highlands)
TBA 2024

Elmira Maple Syrup Festival
April 6, 2024

Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival
April 6 – 7, 2024

Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival
March 9 – 10, 2024

Maple Madness (Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area)
TBA 2024

Powassan Maple Syrup Festival 
April 27, 2024 

Sugar Bush Maple Syrup Festival (Terra Cotta Conservation Area)
March 9 – April 7, 2024

Brooks Farms Maple Sugar Festival (Mount Albert)
Weekends in March + March Break

Maple Syrup Tours on the Farm (Stouffville)
TBA 2024

Taste the Countryside (Waterloo region)
TBA 2024

Maple Trail @ St. Jacobs Market 
Month of March

Sweet Maple Festival
April 13, 2024


Maple Syrup Facts

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Maple Syrup is one of Canada’s 4M’s that goes with Canada’s Moose, Mountains and Muskies! Ontario has more Maple Syrup production than most other provinces.

Maple Syrup Health Facts

The most important information you need to know is that maple syrup is good for you (within reason of course). Over 50 beneficial compounds are found in maple syrup.

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