Enjoy springtime in Vermont at the 45th Annual Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans. This year’s festivities will be held on April 15, 16, and 17 and will feature music, great food, antiques, crafts, cooking demonstrations, a parade, a foot race, exhibits, and rides. There’ll be something for all ages.

Of course as the name implies, The Vermont maple festival celebrates the art of making pure Vermont maple syrup. Vermont is one of the top states of producing great real maple syrup.

Kids will love getting in on the face painting, riding a real pony or a carousel horse, shooting down a giant slide, and enjoying other carnival rides. Older kids and grownups can experience the excitement of thrill rides, and everyone can test their skills at the midway games.
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The Vermont Maple Festival is a food and arts celebration featuring various events such as pancake breakfasts, maple product exhibits, craft exhibits, a specialty foods show, antique shows and markets and more. Visitors can also enjoy maple candy- making live demonstrations, carnival rides, sugarhouse tours and sap run, and numerous concessions all dedicated to Vermont maple syrup.

This festival is held on the last weekend in April. Over 50,000 people go to the Maple Festival every single year, which makes it the most popular annual event in St. Albans. The sugarhouses are opened to the public and visitors from all over the world have the opportunity to experience lots of different events as each maple sugarhouse comes with something of its own.
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