Enjoy a sweet taste of spring during the 48th annual Maple Sugar Time festival. Take a self-guided tour of the sugaring operation at historic Chellberg Farm which will be bustling with maple sugaring activities.

Learn how Miami and Potawatomi Tribes first boiled maple sap into sugar and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup. While walking along the maple trail you will pass by the sugar shack where sap is still boiled down the way the Chellberg family did it back in the 1930s. You can even learn how to make maple syrup at home as well as how modern maple sugar farmers use advanced technology to make syrup today. Kids can learn how to tap a tree at the Maple Fun Zone and meet some of the farm animals.

For suggested donations to FRIENDS of Indiana Dunes, stop by the farmhouse for some Indiana-produced maple syrup, laser cut and designed maple wood magnets and ornaments, or try a maple syrup snow cone.

For more information, please call Indiana Dunes National Park Visitor Center at (219) 395-1882, check out their FaceBook page, or go to www.nps.gov/indu

This family friendly and educational event is sponsored by FRIENDS of Indiana Dunes.