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Hurry Hill Farm and Maple Syrup Museum

Fun family-oriented museum on a scenic maple farm

5661 Buffalo Rd., Harborcreek, PA
About

The Hurry Hill Maple Museum has wonderfully sweet experiences for visitors–children, families, sugar makers, or anyone curious about the maple sugaring process. Natural history, lore, and legend are on display with the bonus of a still in use sugarhouse on this scenic farm.

Offerings

Museum Exhibits

Museum with multiple exhibits about tapping trees, gathering sap, storing, and pouring sugar and syrup, and making maple candy.

Antique Equipment Displays

Many antique buckets, taps, and gathering tanks on display. Over 150 syrup pitchers on exhibit that range from the late 1800’s to modern examples.

Special Exhibit: Miracles on Maple Hill

Special Exhibit about the Newbery Award Winning Book Miracles on Maple Hill with stories about the real local people who became characters in the book.

Self-Guided Walking Tour

Self-guided walking tour through open field and maple grove with educational trail markers along the way.

Group Tours

Group tours can be prescheduled and customized to your school or organization’s needs.

Annual Taste and Tour Event

Annual Taste and Tour event each March with wagon rides, vendors, refreshments, and special activities for children.

Things to Do
  • Visit a 70-year-old working sugarhouse
  • See an outdoor site where syrup was made well over a century ago.
  • Taste 100% pure maple products
  • Learn how we make sugar and syrup
  • Kids: Tap a tree inside our museum
  • Hold and take your photo with a real Newbery Medal
Plan Your Visit
  • Free admission
  • Free parking
  • Gift shop with maple products
  • Easy access from I-79 and Route 6N in Edinboro