As spring begins to show its face, the sun and warm weather mean it's Vermont’s sugar season! Local sugar houses around the region begin to collect the sap from maple trees to be boiled down, and distilled into Vermont’s world famous maple syrup. Historically, the sugaring season lasts between 4 - 6 weeks. Beginning in mid-late February as the temperature starts to regularly rise above 32 degrees and ending when Spring has finally arrived and the trees start budding.
Vermont produces roughly 2 million gallons of maple syrup during these two short months. It is said that Vermont contributes roughly half of all the Maple Syrup produced in the United States. With that in mind, we are excited to share our favorites with the you and the rest of the world.
Maple Open House is a great opportunity to meet and connect with Vermont’s Maple Sugar Makers. The doors to sugar shacks from across the region will be open for observation, education, and most importantly, taste testing. Swing by one of these amazing Sugar Shacks on March 25-26th and April 1st - 2nd for a true Vermont Maple experience.
For more on Maple Sugaring in Vermont, check this out!
- 375 Browns River Road
- (802) 324-3157
Browns River Maple is a locally owned and operated maple syrup operation run by the Lemire family.
- 746 Shelburne-Hinesburg Rd.
- (802) 233-4829
Shelburne Sugarworks is a 170-acre maple farm located in the heart of Chittenden County, Vermont. Bring your cross-country skis, hiking boots or mountain bike and create memories you’ll never forget in our spectacular sugar woods. We also provide tours, samplings and maple…
- 28 Butler Lane
For seven generations, the Butler family has collected sap, even from some of the same trees, and boiled it down to make delicious maple syrup. While the ingredients have never changed, each generation has worked hard to increase the efficiency of the farm. However we still boil…
- 332 Shelburne Hinesburg Rd
- (802) 985-5054
Join us for Maple Open House with boiling demos, free samples, Maple hot dogs, Lattes, and more. Pancake breakfast from 9-12, live music, local distillers and maple cocktails, trek through the sugarbush and definitely stop and say hello to our goats and chickens. Open House…
- 1 Old Pump Road
- (802) 899-8199
Join us for Maple Open House Weekend as we showcase Vermont's signature flavor with maple cream donuts, maple hot dogs, maple cotton candy, sugar on snow, creemees, milkshakes, and maple sundaes! We will also offer hot coffee and cold maple sodas! Bring 2 small food items for our…
- 787 Bradley Ln
- (802) 922-2870
Sugartree Maple Farm, a Vermont owned sugarhouse in Williston, VT. Yes, our sap is gathered with plastic pipelines strung tree-to-tree instead of tin buckets but we still have a new modern wood fired evaporator to boil down the sap to sweet maple syrup, as it’s been done for…
- 39 Orchard Lane
3100 taps, hillside sugarbush, wood gasification boiler, small efficient operation, all mechanicals solar powered. Come by for candy make demonstrations and more on Maple Open House Weekend!