SpilebraskSugarhouse · Wenlow Falls

Late February to early April

How sugaring season works

The weather decides when we boil. Here is what happens between tapping day and the last jug of the year.

Cold nights, warm days

Maples hold their sugar in the trunk through winter. Once nights freeze and days thaw, the sap starts to move, and a spout in the trunk lets some of it drip into a bucket or a line. A healthy tree gives plenty and closes the hole by summer.

Sap is mostly water. We boil about forty gallons of it in the evaporator to make one gallon of syrup. When there is steam over the roof vent, we are boiling, and you are welcome to come and watch from the door.

How pickup works

The pickup window is open Saturdays from 9am to 3pm all year, and every March breakfast weekend. Order ahead and your jugs wait on the shelf with your name on them, or walk up and buy what is on the counter. Pay by card or cash at the window.

A maple trunk with a spout dripping sap into a lidded bucket, under a frosty night moon on one side and a thawing day sun on the other

March 2027 at the sugarhouse

Breakfast runs 8am to 1pm on each weekend below. Adults $14, kids 5 to 12 $8, under 5 free.

  1. Tapping day

    We put the spouts in along Notch Road. Come by the window and we will show you a tapped tree.

  2. First breakfast weekend

    The tables go out for the first time this year. Walk in, or ask us to hold a table for six or more.

  3. Breakfast and sugar on snow

    Hot syrup poured over packed snow at 11am both days, free with breakfast.

  4. Breakfast and the open evaporator

    We boil while you eat when the sap runs, and answer questions at the pan.

  5. Last breakfast weekend

    The final pancake tables of the season.

  6. New syrup at the window

    The first jugs from this year's boil are on the counter at $14, $24 and $68.

Hold a breakfast table for your group.

Tell us which March weekend and how many are coming. Tables are for six or more.

Make a request