Maple syrup, often called “liquid gold” is a natural sweetener that’s high in antioxidants as well as nutrients like riboflavin, zinc, magnesium, calcium and potassium, and whether you are cooking breakfast, lunch, or baking something sweet it can make any recipe extra special and delicious. Make sure that the syrup you use is real maple syrup as life is just to short for substitutions!
To celebrate all things maple, New York State’s Maple Weekends organized and sponsored by the New York State Maple Producers’ Association, are a chance for everyone to visit the farms and learn about the maple sugar making process and traditions right from the source with opportunities to taste, learn, and experience New Yorks’ delicious maple products.
Located in the heart of New York’s maple tree growing country, Ontario County’s maple farms produce fancy maple syrup, maple candies, maple sugar, maple butter, and pretty much anything else you can make with maple syrup. Here is a curated list of places where you can fully immerse yourself in maple during this year’s Maple Weekends, March 22-23 and 29-30, 2025.
Enjoy steaming hot stacks of locally sourced pancakes inside the nature center before heading outdoors for trail demonstrations that explore the science of sap and the long cultural history of tapping maple trees in the region. Your walk will end at the sugar shack where you can see first-hand the process of boiling sap down to syrup and take a sip of nature’s tastiest sugar.
6472 Gulick Road
Naples, NY 14512
585-374-6160
Joe and Chris Hurley are the father-son team behind Kettle Ridge Farm, which produces maple syrup and honey on more than 70 acres in Victor, NY. Together, they have built a growing agri-tourism enterprise known for its quality products and innovative programs, including the Adopt-A-Maple program. In addition to maple syrup and honey, Kettle Ridge Farm operates a pancake food truck, stages a popular fall festival called KettleFest and hosts a series of farm-to-table dinners.
Kettle Ridge Farm will be open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each of the Maple Weekend days with a limited menu that people can eat in their heated barn. They do not take reservations unless you wish to reserve an igloo for your group. Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery will be in attendance selling KettleJuice, their maple grapefruit IPA. Their retail shop will be fully stocked with products and sampling is encouraged! The sugar house will be open for live demos and there will be a viewing area of the sugarbush.
515 Log Cabin Road
Victor, NY 14564
585-217-7108
Owner Chris Schoff started sugaring when he was about two, and officially started his own small business is 2000. Schoff has expanded the shack over the years and now makes about 250 gallons of syrup annually. Schoff’s three sons help him gather, process and bottle the syrup, making them the only local producer that sells exclusively local syrup!
Enjoy a comprehensive look at the sugaring process from sap to bottle in their cozy sugar shack. Pure maple syrup, maple spread (“cream”), and maple sugar shapes will all be offered for sale.
1064 Willis Hill Road
Victor, NY 14564
585-924-3769
Stoney Ridge Farms is a 77-acre farm in the town of Farmington. Owners, Chris and Melinda met in 2004 and started selling sap from a small sugar bush of 400 taps, growing to an over 6,500-tap operation when they started making maple syrup in 2010. In 2013, they expanded the maple operation, built a new sugar house and installed state-of-the-art equipment, including an evaporator engineered and built by Chris.
Maple Weekends at Stoney Ridge Farms include an all you can eat buckwheat pancake breakfast, sugar house tours, children's activities, demonstrations, and a petting zoo.
625 Country Road 28
Palmyra, NY 14522
585-733-0814
Featuring 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 will also be on hand selling farm soaps and salves, cupcakes and other sweets, gourmet mustards and ketchup as well as popcorn, ice cream and pancakes, of course!
927 LaRue Road
Clifton Springs, NY 14432
315-879-7390
The Naples Maple Farm at the Wohlschlegel’s Estate
A sense of generational family customs is conjured up, triggering the emotions and traditions of pure natural maple syrup. Maple syrup, with it's varying hues and distinctive country kitchen aroma, is the same product it has always been. It’s a symbol of simpler times, simple pleasures, family participation and hard work, recalling “days of old.”
Wohlschlegel’s will be serving their famous pancake breakfasts on Saturdays during the Maple Weekends. Breakfast includes fluffy pancakes, sausage, fresh hot maple syrup, plus coffee, tea and juice. $15 for adults and $10 for kids 2-8. Tickets can be purchased in advance on their website.
8064 Coates Road
Naples, NY 14512
585-775-7770
This family owned working farm produces one hundred percent pure maple syrup using sustainable forestry and agricultural practices. Join them for tours of their sugar house and their new state-of-the-art eco-friendly maple lodge, maple syrup tastings, and all-you-can-eat pancakes! 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.
5585 County Road 33
Canandaigua, NY 14424
(585) 208-2602
See the process from tree to bottle. Take a sugar house tour, watch the wood fired boiling process that turns pure maple sap into maple syrup as well as the final bottling process.
3835 Shay Road
Naples, NY 14512
(585) 770-3266
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