Forget the quiet, rustic sugar shack experience—Le Chalet des Érables is a full-blown maple festival. Since 1948, this Laurentian mainstay has evolved into an amusement park of sugaring-off season, complete with train rides, carnival games, a petting zoo, and even a mechanical bull. Six generations of the Lampron family have been boiling sap and serving feasts, keeping traditions alive while making sure no one—especially kids—is bored. The all-you-can-eat menu comes with access to the grounds, and if you’re looking for something even bigger, they’ve also carved out a niche as an unexpected wedding destination, offering customizable ceremonies from chapel to forest glade. Whether you’re here for syrup or a party, this is a sugar shack that believes more is more.
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Running from late February through April, sugar shack season is a short but glorious stretch of syrup-soaked feasts best enjoyed in the countryside.
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