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Lakefront festivals slowly returning as COVID s year-long grip eases

The annual Maple Sugar Festival at the Chellberg Farm went virtual this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the process of how the syrup is made. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed most of the annual events and festivals along the Lake Michigan shoreline, a cautious reopening is taking place here in Northwest Indiana and in neighboring Chicago. The Indiana Dunes National Park, which encompasses 15 miles of the local shoreline, is cautiously moving toward reintroducing its popular annual festivals, said Bruce Rowe, supervisory park ranger/public information officer. The Maple Sugar Time festival, which has attracted crowds of up to 4,000 people over its two weekends, is being held primarily online this year due to continued concerns about the highly contagious and potentially deadly coronavirus, he said.

Local parks are helping you to tap your own maple trees and make syrup

Last week’s freeze-thaw cycles meant that maple sap started to run. Below, we provide several ways that local parks will help you tap your own trees and make syrup. Did you know that you can make a spile (the little device that drains the sap) from a staghorn sumac branch? Or buy one locally for a buck? The popular Sugar Camp Days at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle isn’t happening this year, as officials say the pandemic didn’t allow the months of planning that it needed. But we ll share some of the limited events and tours that are going on in the area in next week s Outdoor Adventures column in The Tribune.

Swiss Valley in Jones stoked to ski later into season with ample snow

A few red-winged blackbirds and a flock or two of sandhill cranes arrived over the weekend. Maple sap was running. Like usual for the start of March. But it still isn’t a usual winter for ski resorts. If it were, the downhill season at Swiss Valley Ski & Snowboard Area in Jones would toast its finale this Sunday — typically a week into March. Instead, spokesman Mike Panich says the resort has booked its “Slush Cup” contest (a sort of farewell party) for March 14 with the option of staying open even longer if the weather permits and visitors keep coming. Snowmelt or not, the resort recently looked more like it was ramping up operations, not chilling out, stoked by the momentum from a super-busy season when weekend ski rentals often ran out. Jamie Stafne, who oversees operations, says this season’s attendance will surely “blow the record for the past two decades.”

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