{"id":38214,"date":"2023-02-08T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=38214"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:47:12","slug":"maple-syrup-festival-2023-on-tap-at-cunningham-falls-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/02\/08\/maple-syrup-festival-2023-on-tap-at-cunningham-falls-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Syrup Festival 2023 On Tap at Cunningham Falls State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annual March Event Celebrates Mountain Maryland Tradition<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/816\/26068754117_f15fd63f34.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of boiling pot over wood fire\" width=\"355\" height=\"266\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland DNR photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources invites everyone to come celebrate the annual Maple Syrup Festival at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/pages\/western\/cunningham.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cunningham Falls State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the weekends of March 11-12 and March 18-19. During this event, held annually for more than 50 years, guests can gather around the Sugar Shack to watch sugarmakers demonstrate the traditional way of boiling sap into syrup against the backdrop of Maryland\u2019s woodlands.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Live bluegrass music will fill the air as Maryland-made maple syrup is served over a hot pancake and sausage breakfast. Guests can also take a hayride through the Maple Grove to see exactly how Park Rangers collect sap. And everyone can try their hand in the great pancake race \u2013 trying to flip a pancake on the run ahead of other contestants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Events take place each day of the event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u00a0 A sign language interpreter will be stationed at the Sugar Shack on both Sundays. Syrup-making demonstrations and hayrides take place every hour on the hour. A $5 donation per person is requested at entrance. Breakfast is available during the festival hours for an extra cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proceeds from the Maple Syrup Festival benefit the nonprofit Friends of Cunningham Falls and Gambrill State Parks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The park opens at 9 a.m. and closes at sunset. Pets are permitted on a leash, outside only. This event is ADA accessible. Visitors may contact 301-271-7574 for more information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual March Event Celebrates Mountain Maryland Tradition The Maryland Department of Natural Resources invites everyone to come celebrate the annual Maple Syrup Festival at Cunningham Falls State Park, the weekends of March 11-12 and March 18-19. During this event, held annually for more than 50 years, guests can gather around the Sugar Shack to watch<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/02\/08\/maple-syrup-festival-2023-on-tap-at-cunningham-falls-state-park\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3033,5108,5169,3034],"class_list":["post-38214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-cunningham-falls-state-park","tag-events","tag-friends-of-cunningham-falls-and-gambrill-state-parks","tag-maple-syrup-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38223,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214\/revisions\/38223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}