You can tap into the sweet history of maple sugaring at the Genesee Country Village and Museum. The annual Maple Sugar Festival is happening the next two weekends.

It all starts with maple trees and collecting all that sap. The Genesee Country Village and Museum has 250 maple trees tapped. Follow the trail to the 19th-century Sugar Camp where you can check out all the old-school techniques and tools that the early settlers used to make maple sugar.

What You Need To Know

  • You can tap into the history of maple sugaring at the Genesee Country Village & Museum

  • Enjoy an outdoor exploration of the history of maple sugaring in New York state

  • Part of the Nature Center at GCV&M is a working sugar house where sap is collected and turned into maple syrup

  • Maple products from the Sugarhouse are available for sale in the GCV&M Flint Hill Store

You're invited to explore the Sugarhouse to listen and watch how all that sap becomes sweet and delicious maple syrup.

“We are making syrup right now," said Adam Henne, director of the GCV&M Nature Center. "In the evaporator crackling right behind me is full of the sap that’s been concentrated and now it is all boiling away and it will be the syrup that we’re going put in the gift shop. It’s pretty exciting to get to see the kids. You know it’s sugar, so they’re invested in it, but then their questions and their ideas about where it comes from and how it works is always new to them and I like to be part of that. This makes it a little more real for them."

The Maple Sugar Festival is March 18, 19, 25 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can buy advance tickets at gcv.org.

Mumford is about a 30-minute drive from Rochester.