Maple Weekends in the Finger Lakes

New York State Maple Weekends are here! Enjoy the best of the maple season over the last two weekends of March, between Mar. 21-22 and Mar. 28-29, 2026. The Finger Lakes maple farms produce fancy maple syrup, maple candies, maple sugar, maple butter, and pretty much anything else you can make with maple syrup. 

Check out the different events and opportunities to try this “liquid gold,” and discover part of the magic of the region's agritourism. 

Naples & Canandaigua

Cumming Nature Center

Head to Cumming Nature Center (6472 Gulick Road, Naples, N.Y.) and enjoy steaming hot stacks of locally sourced pancakes with maple syrup inside the nature center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For an immersive maple making experience, follow the trail to the Sugar House between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and experience tapping and boiling demonstrations that showcase the process of transforming sap down to syrup.

The Naples Maple Farm

Producing maple syrup for more than 30 years, The Naples Maple Farm (8064 Coates Road, Naples, N.Y.) serves pancakes breakfasts every Saturday of March and both Saturday and Sunday during Maple Weekends from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The breakfast features fluffy pancakes, sausage, fresh hot syrup, and assortment of coffee, tea, and juice. Tours and tastings are also available, offering flavors such as bourbon barrel-aged, vanilla bean, cinnamon, and espresso maple syrup.

Timber Trails Forest Farm

Timber Trails Forest Farm (5585 County Road 33, Canandaigua, N.Y.) produces it's maple syrup using sustainable forestry and agricultural practices. Join them from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for all-you-can-eat pancakes breakfast, a tour of their sugar house and new state-of-the-art eco-friendly maple lodge, and maple syrup tastings. Learn about the traditional wood-fired method of making maple syrup and how they make one hundred percent pure maple syrup with no carbon emissions using New York State’s first electric evaporator.

Red Shed Sweets

Stop at Red Shed Sweets (3835 Shay Road, Naples, N.Y.) to see the process from tree to bottle and taste some of their syrup on the way.

Victor

Kettle Ridge Farm

Kettle Ridge Farm (515 Log Cabin Road, Victor, N.Y.), open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., celebrates Maple Weekends with a breakfast menu inside their heated barn, featuring pancakes with butter and maple syrup, sausage rolls, maple yogurt parfait, maple donuts, and more. For all craft beverages lovers out there, make sure to try KettleJuice, Kettle Ridge Farm's once-a-year maple grapefruit IPA in collaboration with Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery. Stop by the farm's retail shop to sample some of their maple products and head to the sugar house for live demonstrations.

Schoff’s Sugar Shack

Visit Schoff’s Sugar Shack (1064 Willis Hill Road, Victor, N.Y.) and try their maple syrup, maple cream, and maple candy. You can also enjoy a comprehensive look at the sugaring process from sap to bottle in their cozy sugar shack.

Clifton Springs & Palmyra

Embers Rising Farm

Embers Rising Farm (927 LaRue Road, Clifton Springs, N.Y.) features farm tours, maple demonstrations, boiling in the sugarhouse, tastings, and adopt-a-tree basket pickups. Products for sale include maple syrup (pure), maple syrup (flavored), maple sugar (granulated), maple spread ("cream"), maple sugar shapes, maple coffee, maple tea, maple cotton candy, maple coated nuts, and maple mustard. Vendors and artisans also join the celebration, offering farm soaps and salves, cupcakes and other sweets, gourmet mustards and ketchup, popcorn, ice cream, and pancakes.

Stoney Ridge Farms

Stoney Ridge Farms (625 Country Road 28, Palmyra, N.Y.) celebrates with an all-you-can-eat buckwheat and buttermilk pancake breakfast, sap house tours with food sampling and cooking demo, tapping demonstrations, horse drawn wagon rides, and a petting zoo. 

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