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Our advice: consider where you are starting your 2024 Maple Run Tour, then use our handy map and Studios list – contained in our brochure, as shown (you can get a brochure at your first tour stop).

Of course, you can’t go wrong with kicking off your tour in Pakenham, where there are 4 tour stops. It’s a natural place to start if you are coming from Arnprior and “up the valley“. After Pakenham, head west on the Waba Road to visit Cartwright Springs Brewery and the Chris van Zanten Studio – OR cross the historic 5span stone bridge and travel along the Kinburn Side Road until you reach Mohrs Road, then turn left to Farmgate Cider, the largest of our tour stops.

If arriving from Carleton Place or Almonte along County Road 29, make your first stop at the Cedar Hill schoolhouse, half way between Almonte and Parkenham. Then take in the tour stops in and around Pakenham.

The Pakenham Maple Run Tour returns for its 20^th time on April 6 and 7, with 8 tour stops and the art and fine craft of a select group of Ottawa Valley artists. A tour like no other, Maple Run is a unique blend of art, heritage buildings and spectacular spring scenery, all set within a 40km tour route that runs right through maple syrup country. Maple Run is a self-guided free tour with stops open from 10am to 5pm both days. Check mapleruntour.com or our Facebook page for more information.

Our Maple Run visitors tell us the tour is like a breath of fresh air after a long winter. There’s art, fine and traditional craft, food, craft beverages – and the venues are a tour all by themselves. You can visit all the tour stops in a day, and that also leaves time to plan a visit to a local sugar bush such as Fulton’s on Maple Weekend.

With 8 tour stops in 2024, where should I start?

The 2024 Pakenham Maple Run Tour April 6 and 7