Ottawa-area maple sugarbushes are opening for the 2025 season!

If you love maple syrup, maple sugar, maple taffy, maple butter—anything sweet and spring-like, basically—I have good news for you: Lots of maple sugarbushes (aka sucreries) across Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais are welcoming visitors in spring 2025! Here’s the scoop on who’s opening when, and what activities and food will be available.

Important: Sugarbush activities may be weather dependent, so do check your chosen site’s social media or website before heading out the door.

This post includes only those sugarbushes that are offering tours and other activities in 2025. However, that’s not the only way to support your favourite maple syrup maker! Please check this post for information on sugarbushes that are selling their products online or in a farm store.

I’m still confirming dates and hours for a couple of places, so keep checking back as spring goes on.

And, as always, if I’ve overlooked your favourite place, let me know and I’ll do my best to include it.

Cover photo by Luke Pennystan on Unsplash.

Ottawa maple syrup producers

• The Log Farm, Cedarview Road: The sugarbush will be open on weekends from March 1 to April 6, as well as March 13 and 14 during Ontario’s March Break. Visitors can collect sap buckets, see how syrup is made, tour the pioneer farmhouse and visit the barn animals. You can book tickets online in advance or pay at the gate.
• Proulx Farm, Cumberland: Maple Fest is open on weekends from March 1 until April 21. It is also open from March 10 to 14 (Ontario March Break) and all four days of the Easter weekend (April 18 to 21). The pancake house opens for the season on March 1. Depending on the day, you can visit the sugar shack, get s’mores or soup to enjoy around the fire, pet farm animals, enjoy the outdoor playground, eat pancakes or desserts, enjoy a horse-drawn wagon ride, or explore the outdoor trails. There’s a farm shop, too. You can buy tickets online or at the door.
• Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm, Edwards: The sugarbush is open on weekends from March 2 to April 20, as well as March Break (March 10 to 14), with an animal barn, taffy on snow, tractor-pulled wagon rides, a small farm museum and a pancake house. Intriguingly, the pancake house buffet is priced by weight, so you can heap your plate with as much or as little as you like and pay accordingly. The farm shop (please check Stanley’s website for current hours) sells take-home meals and baked goods, as well as maple products. There will also be Easter egg hunts on April 12, 13 and 19. You can buy tickets online or at the gate. Note that the pancake house doesn’t take reservations.
• Vanier Museopark Sugar Shack: The sucrerie will be open to the general public Friday through Sunday from February 18 until April 21. It is also open to groups of 15 or more (by reservation only, at least a week in advance), from Wednesday through Friday. As well as watching maple syrup being made, you can tuck into sausages, French toast, baked beans, pancakes and more.

Sugarbushes elsewhere in Eastern Ontario

• Fulton’s, Pakenham: The trails and the maple shop at Fulton’s are open daily for the season from March 1 to April 20. Weather permitting, sleigh rides are available on weekends, as well as on weekdays during Ontario March Break (March 10 to 14) and over the Easter weekend (April 18 to 20; not Easter Monday). In the farm shop, you can pick up syrup, other foods and baked goods from a variety of local producers. There’s a $20 per vehicle admission fee if you want to use the hiking/snowshoeing/ski trails or enjoy other activities, but you don’t need to pay it to visit the shop.
• Fortune Farms, Almonte: As of March 1, the farm is open for purchases on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm.
• Grants Settlement Farms, Foresters Falls: Sugar shack tours are available between 10am and 4pm on Saturdays from early March until April 19 (and, possibly, on other days—their website has details on who to contact to check). You can also buy maple syrup, sugar and other maple food products at the farm store, which you can visit on Saturdays or by appointment, year round.
• Hunter’s Maple Products, Spencerville: On Saturdays and Sundays from March 1 until April 27, you can dig into a pancake breakfast (8am to 2:30pm), see sap being made, see the maple taps and drop into the farm store (8am to 3pm). The farm doesn’t take reservations.
• Temple’s Sugar Bush, Lanark: Temple’s is serving up pancake breakfasts from Wednesday through Sunday from March 1 to April 20. Hours are 9am to 3pm.
• Wheelers Maple Products, McDonald’s Corners: The pancake house, sugarbush and museums are open from Tuesday through Sunday (plus Easter Monday, April 21) until April 22; and open Thursday through Sunday (plus Victoria Day, May 19) from April 23 to June 29. Reservations required.
• Sand Road Maple Farm, Moose Creek: See sap being made, explore the nature trails, eat taffy made on snow and check out the maple buffet, among other fun activities. The farm will have a “soft open” on Sunday, March 2, and will be open again on Sunday, March 9. After that, the farm will be open from Friday through Sunday until the end of the season in April (check the farm’s website or social media for actual closing date).
• Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area, Kingston: The sugarbush is open weekends throughout March and during Ontario March Break (March 10 to 14), from 9am to 4pm. You can take a tractor-drawn wagon ride, explore an interpretive trail, see the sugar shack in action and eat pancakes. Advance online registration required.

Outaouais and other Quebec cabanes à sucre

• Le Domaine de l’Ange-Gardien, l’Ange-Gardien: The fun here includes sugar shack meals and snow tubing. If you want to eat at the sugar shack, you must reserve online in advance. You can also get sugar shack meals to go. Check the farm’s website or social media for current dates and times.
• Erablière J.B. Caron, Gracefield: Tour the sugar shack, go snowshoeing and enjoy pancake house treats. Reservations strongly recommended. Check the farm’s website or social media for current dates and times.
• Sucrerie de la Montagne, Rigaud: One of the region’s largest sugar shacks, this sucrerie is open seven days a week from February 15 until April 30. Visit the maple syrup operation, take a horse-drawn sleigh or wagon ride, eat taffy, hear some live music, visit the general store, or enjoy traditional Quebec specialties like baked beans, meat pie and pea soup. Reserve in advance.
• Ferme Patry, Ange-Gardien: You can shop for maple products (syrup, candies, tea and much more). The sugar shack operation depends on the weather; check the website before heading out. Check the farm’s website or social media for current dates and times.

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