Pancakes and maple-making in Maryland’s mountain park

Watch sap boil into syrup, ride haywagons, and sample pancakes and bluegrass during a sweet March weekend at Cunningham Falls State Park.

Start date

14 March, 2026 10:00 AM

End date

15 March, 2026 2:00 PM

Event details

March in the Catoctin Mountains smells like woodsmoke and warm syrup. Cunningham Falls State Park’s Maple Syrup Festival turns the William Houck Area into a hands-on sugar camp, with hourly boil demonstrations and plenty of family-friendly ways to learn how sap becomes syrup.

Come hungry for the pancake breakfast, then stay for hayrides and live music before finishing the day with a waterfall walk or a lakeside stroll at Hunting Creek Lake.