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This is an archive article from 2004 - for current information on the Maple Syrup Festival please visit the Park Events page

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh Annual Maple Syrup Festival at Bronte Creek

Fresh Ontario maple syrup begins flowing at Bronte Creek Provincial Park on Saturday, March 6 when the park's month-long Maple Syrup Festival gets underway.

“We're anticipating another great turnout for this year's festival,” said Festival Organizer, Jen Morel.   “This is our seventh year and it's shaping up to be our best year ever.   We've been busy over the winter months gathering information and articles for a new attraction , a Maple Syrup Museum; and making improvements to the gift shop.”  

The maple syrup festivities are open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekends during March and from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily throughout March Break (March 15 to 19). Visitors can choose from a wide variety of festival activities. Here's a sample:

• Take a relaxing wagon ride to a heated pancake house where you can enjoy fresh, hot pancakes with pure maple syrup and crisp bacon, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on festival days.

• Enjoy a guided tour of the Syrup History Trail, where costumed interpreters demonstrate how to tap maple trees, make maple syrup and maple sugar candy.  

• Sit back and watch a movie in the Logging Theatre, tour the 100-year-old Spruce Lane farmhouse or browse through the maple products and souvenirs in the Maple Gift Shop and purchase a bottle of Ontario maple syrup to take home.

General admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and $2 for youths (aged 4 to 17 years). Children 3 years and under are admitted free.  

Extra charges apply for purchases in the gift shop, fresh maple candy and meals: $3.00 for the small meal (two pancakes) and $5.00 for the large meal (three pancakes). Pancake meals include hot, fresh pancakes, crisp bacon, and a drink.  

Bronte Creek Provincial Park is located one kilometre north of the QEW on Burloak Drive, between Oakville and Burlington (Exit 109).  

For more information about the park and its facilities and programs, visit the Bronte Creek web page on the Ontario Parks web site or call the park at (905) 827-6911.

Contributed by Sheila Wiebe, Natural Heritage Education Specialist, Bronte Creek Provincial Park