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.
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Heavy snow refreshed a lot of our trails and hills Tuesday, but it wasnât quite as thick as we needed for some of our local snow-sport destinations.
Then again, some parks in Berrien County already had a base and should be ready for play. And, prior to this latest storm, the Michigan s downhill ski resorts were already rockin it with lots of coverage.
You just gotta check before you go.
St. Patrickâs County Park in South Bend was rolling its cross-country ski trails Tuesday afternoon, though it wasnât deep enough to set tracks. And staff say that, after a couple of tubing parties this week, weâll see if the tubing hill stays snow-covered for public use this weekend.Â
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Clockwise from top left, wild horses on Assateague Island (near Washington); sledding on the Blue Ridge Parkway (near Raleigh, N.C.); hiking in World’s End reservation (near Boston); and a winter landscape in Sedona, Ariz. (near Phoenix).Credit.Clockwise from top left: Darren S. Higgins for The New York Times; Bill Bake; Cody O Loughlin for The New York Times; Kelli Klymenko
Dec. 18, 2020
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