INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during the 45th annual Maple Sugar Time festival at Indiana Dunes National Park’s historic Chellberg Farm. The farm will be bustling with maple sugaring activities from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday March 12 and Sunday March 13.
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, stop by the front of the farmhouse where Indiana-produced maple syrup and related products will be for sale. You can even learn how to make maple syrup at home and how modern farmers use advanced technology to 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 5, through the festival weekend.
Chellberg Farm is located at 618 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 at https://www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNPS/
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Indiana Dunes National Park is one of 423 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. Three million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
