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The Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce served hundreds of breakfasts.
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The warm weather made outside dining very pleasant.
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ODNR provided sugar bush tours for hundreds of guests.
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Two wagons ran continuously each day providing tours of the maple syrup process.
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ODNR Office Jan Bailey kept the children and adults entertained with her facts and stories about collecting and processing maple syrup.
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Hundreds of gallons of sap is collected from Maple Trees in the Indian Lake campground.
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The guests had a chance to taste the sugary water.
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The tour ended at the sugar shack where park volunteers and staff demonstrated how 43 gallons of maple sugar sap becomes one gallon of syrup.
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Steam fills the sugar shack as the water boils off the sap leaving a thicker richer syrup.
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Guests look through the steam to see the evaporator.
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This wood fired evaporator made in the 1960's was purchased by the park in 1985 and has been used for demonstrations since then.
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Sap first enters the center where it is heated before entering the area where the water is boiled off.
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Guests were returned to the concession area after the tour.
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24th Annual Maple Syrup Festival 2009
The
24th Annual Maple Syrup Festival will be held in
conjunction with the Indian Lake Area Chamber of
Commerce Pancake Breakfast on March 21 and 22 at the
Indian Lake State Park. The pancake and sausage
breakfast is served at the Indian Lake State Park
campground commissary located at 13156 North State Route
235, Lakeview from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday and 8
a.m. - 1 p.m. on Sunday. The breakfast is $4 per adult
and $2 per child. Pints, quarts and gallons of real
maple syrup will be for sale both days from the Indian
Lake Development Corporation.
