Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallen Avenue, Wheaton MD.  Call 301-946-9071 or visit www.brooksidenature.org for more information.
Maple Sap Collecting , February 5, 3:45 – 4:45 pm, Ages 2 – 12. Visit our 'sugar bush' to help us collect maple sap and learn how it's made into delicious maple syrup. eservations required. Fee: $4
Maple Sap Collecting, February 13, Session 1 at 10 - 11 am,  Session 2 at 12:30 -1:30 pm. For Ages 2 – 12. Visit our 'sugar bush' to help us collect maple sap and learn how it's made into delicious maple syrup. Reservations required. Fee: $4
Maple Sap Collecting, February 19, 4-5pm. for ages 2 – 12.Visit our 'sugar bush' to help us collect maple sap and learn how it's made into delicious maple syrup. Reservations required. Fee: $4
Maple Sugar Festival, February 20, 11am – 3pm for all ages. Stop by and see an American tradition! Watch the whole process from start to finish. See sap drip from the trees and taste it, watch us boil it down into sweet maple syrup, then sample a tasty treat! No reservations required.

Hashawha/Bear Branch Nature Center, 300 John Owings Rd. Westminster, MD.
Tapping Maples and Sap Collecting, Feb 10 & 17 (Wednesdays 2pm) OR Feb 12 & 19 (Fridays 10:30am) OR Feb 18 & 25 (Thursdays 5pm). Help us prepare for the upcoming Maple Sugarin’ Festival by tapping our maple trees the first week and then coming back to collect sap the second week. Learn how and why we tap trees and about the boiling down process. Even try some real maple syrup! We will be hiking and carrying equipment so dress appropriately. You MUST be able to attend BOTH days in order to register for this program. FEE: $5.
Maple Sugarin’ and Craft, February 20 Saturday from 10:30am-12pm OR 1:30-3pm.
Learn all about the history of Maple Sugarin’ and tree tapping. Enjoy a short hike, movie and demonstration. Take a taste test and make a spile or mokuk! Age: 6-adult (under 12 must be accompanied by a paying adult). FEE: $5 Call 410-848-2517 or 410-848-9040 for more information or see http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/recpark/hashawha/default.asp

Cunningham Falls State Park, William Houck Area off Catoctin Hollow Rd., Thurmont, MD 21788
Maple Syrup Making Demonstration, March 13, 14, 20 & 21, 10am-2pm.  
A continuous working demonstration of the traditional maple syrup making process.
For more information call 301-271-7574

Meadowside Nature Center is located at 5100 Meadowside Lane (in Rock Creek Regional Park), Rockville.  Call 301-924-4141 or visit www.montgomeryparks.org/nature_centers/meadow/index.shtm
Maple Sugaring, February 19, 4-5pm, for ages 3 and up. Learn how maple syrup is made—from the tree to bottle—then take a taste test: which is real and which is artificial? Naturalist: Lisa Droubi Fee is $5, registration required.
Maple Sugaring Breakfast, February 27, 10 – 11:30am. Follow the process of how maple sap is collected from the tree, and then boiled into syrup. Complete the process by sampling syrup on pancakes. All participants age 2 and above must register. Fee is $8.  

Oregon Ridge Lodge and Nature Center, Beaver Dam Road in Cockeysville.  Call 410-887-1815 or visit www.oregonridge.org for additional information.
Maple Sugar Weekends, Feb. 20, 21 & 27, 28. Bring the family, the neighbors, and friends between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm for a day outdoors — a day that will dispel the effects of winter doldrums and stir your thoughts toward spring. Oregon Ridge Nature Center's Maple Syrup Weekends
Pancake Breakfast, March 6 and 7. Come and enjoy the fruits of our labor and our maple trees on some delicious pancakes! The Annual Pancake Breakfast will be held at Oregon Ridge Lodge from 8 am until noon each day. Tickets can be purchased at the door, $6.00 for adults, and $3.00 for children ages 2 to 8. Pancakes with 100% maple syrup, sausage, orange juice, coffee, tea, or milk are on the menu.