Schaumburg's Sugar Bush Fair returns this weekend
Sugar Bush Fair, the Schaumburg Park District's annual event combining a hearty breakfast with the great outdoors, returns this weekend at Spring Valley Nature Center.
The main purpose of the fair is to demonstrate how the area's earliest pioneers made maple syrup. The event also features a children's puppet show, hay rides and, of course, an outdoor pancake breakfast. The meal, served in a tent just outside the nature center's Merkle Cabin, will include sausage, juice, coffee and real maple syrup for the pancakes.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon both Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18, at the nature center at 1111 E. Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg.
"Sugar Bush Fair is a pancake breakfast unlike any other," Spring Valley Manager of Conservation Services Dave Brooks said in a release. "There's nothing like eating fresh-off-the-griddle pancakes topped with authentic maple syrup while surrounded by nature."
Though attendance is free, tickets are required for breakfast and available at the nature center.
Pre-sale tickets are $4 for a half stack and $6 for a full stack. Day-of prices are $5 for a half stack and $7 for a full stack.
For more information, call (847) 985-2100 or visit parkfun.com.