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    Sugar Camp Guided Hiking Tour

    March 18 2023 @ 1:00 pm 4:00 pm

    Sugar Camp Guided Hiking Tour

    Make maple syrup season even sweeter with a Sugar Camp Guided Hiking Tour at Canterbury Shaker Village. Join us for a two-mile (four-miles total) tour to the Shaker’s remote sugar camp on March 18 and April 1 from 1 to 4 p.m.

    On this exclusive tour, participants will walk back in time through the remnants of a once thriving Shaker Village maple sugar camp, now seemingly lost and forgotten deep in the woods. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Shakers spent their early spring days gathering sap and their nights boiling maple syrup and making candy.

    At the conclusion of the maple season, the Shakers would emerge from the camp and return to Shaker Village with their sweet harvest in hand. Records indicate that in 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, the Shaker Village Church Family set out almost 1200 wooden buckets for the gathering of sap and produced almost 700 barrels of maple syrup. The syrup was not only an important sweetener for the many mouths they fed daily, but an important cash crop for sale to the outside world.

    Explore the foundation remnants, compare historic photos with existing site conditions, and hear an excerpt from a journal entry written in the late 1880s by Shaker Brethren Nicholas Briggs, who describes life at this sugar camp when it was a hubbub of activity.

    Each Sugar Camp Guided Hiking Tour is limited to 14 people. Participants will ALSO receive a 1.7 ounce nip of maple syrup from North Family Farm as well as a maple candy.*

    Members $25, Non-members $50.

    CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS FOR MARCH 18. *Program cancelled due to weather.

    CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS FOR APRIL 1.

    *This is a strenuous four-mile backcountry hike with uphill portions. Sections of the trail may be covered in snow, ice, and/or mud. Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear/Appropriate clothing and footwear is required.”

    288 Shaker Rd
    Canterbury, New Hampshire 03224 United States
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