Maple Syrup Events Planned At DuPage Forest Preserves

WHEATON, IL — It's maple syrup time yet again, which means families can get a taste for how maple syrup is made at forest preserves throughout DuPage County. Residents can visit Kline Creek Farm to learn how to tap and cook maple sap into syrup. They can also swing by Fullersburg Woods to see a sap collection demonstration and learn how the ideal maple syrup is made.

Kline Creek Farm Maple Sugaring

1N600 County Farm Rd, West Chicago, IL

Saturdays and Sundays, March 1 through 29 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Kids will love the hands-on learning experience that lets them tap their own tree and collect maple sap in a bucket. The interactive event will also feature heating the sap over the fire to watch it turn into syrup. Of course, there will be educational information and delicious syrup samples along the way.

Fullersburg Woods: Get Sticky! Maple Syrup Day

3609 Spring Rd, Oak Brook, IL

March 21 from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.

Maple Syrup Day will share the ins and outs of maple syrup production. The event features a 75-minute guided tour down a quarter-mile trail lined with maple trees that are ready to produce sap. Guides will share info about syrup production and guests will get to sample the goods. Tours leave every 20 minutes, with the last tour departing at 2 p.m.