Highland County Maple Festival

Maple Festival is the Highland County way of celebrating the end of winter and will be held on March 12-13 and March 19-20. This year marks the 53rd year the festival has been formally held, though the tradition of turning Maple tree sugar water into syrup goes back centuries. Service organizations guarantee that there will be plenty of maple doughnuts to go around and an abundance of hot off the griddle hotcakes, both regular and buckwheat. Several of the area’s major maple service producers will not only have syrup made right on the spot, but will give tours explaining how maple syrup is made. For more information go to www.highlandcounty.org/