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Parker's Maple Barn Sugarhouse Tours

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Venue:	Parkers Maple Barn
Dates:	Friday, March 1, 2013 - Monday, April 15, 2013
Hours:	Hours Vary see below
In/Outdoor:	Indoor, Outdoor
Cost:	$
Category:	Seasonal Fun

The Sugar House at Parker's Maple BArn is in full operation March and April every year. They make maple syrup the old fashioned way, with a wood fire. This gives the maple syrup a distinct flavor that you just don`t get with an oil fire. Making maple syrup has been a family tradition here at Parkers Maple Barn for 3 decades. During sugar season, one can sometimes find a wait to enter the restaurant but the sugar house offers full tours of the operation to help you pass the time.

They will show you how the Native Americans made 'Zinsibukwud' (maple sugar) by placing hot rocks into the sap, right up to modern sugar making in our wood-fired evaporator. After a trip through the sugar house, you certainly will go home smelling like a sugar maker! Group tours are welcome week days by appointment only, but call well before the season arrives to ensure the time you want!

All of Parker's maple products are available in the Corn Crib Gift Shop, and of course you can order on-line, they will ship anywhere in the universe. *Please Note: shipments outside of our solar system may take up to a week longer to arrive!

HOURS

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Monday through Friday 8:00 AM. until 2:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday 7:00 AM. until 4:00 PM

WEBSITE

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www.parkersmaplebarn.com/sugarhouse.php

LOCATION

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1316 Brookline Road, Mason, NH map
Phone: (603) 878-2308

Concord - Manchester Area:
Route 101 West, take the Milford Brookline Exit, sign says Route 13 South. Follow Route 13 for approximately 6 miles until you come to your first overhead blinking yellow light, on the right you will see Parker's sign. Take a right onto Mason Road and follow for approximately 3 miles, Parker's is on the left.

North Shore Area: (Tewksbury & Nashua included)
Route 3 North to Exit 6 to Route 130 West. Follow 130 through Hollis (being careful to stay on Route 130), and into Brookline. In Brookline Center there will be the Village Store on the right, shortly after that the road will fork - bear left following the sign to Mason. This will take you up and down a small hill to a stop sign with a red blinking light. Across the street you will see our sign. Go straight across (puts you on Mason Road in Brookline). Parker's is approximately three miles in on the left.

Boston Area: (Townsend)
Route 2 West to the Concord rotary. From there take a right to Route 119 west. Follow Route 119 through Littleton and into Townsend. At the traffic light in Townsend Center (Cumberland Farms on right), take a right onto Route 13 North. Follow Route 13 over the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border. Then at the second overhead blinking light, you will see a Parker's sign, take a left onto Mason Road (in Brookline). Follow for approximately 3 miles and Parker's is on the left.

Peterborough Area: (Greenville)
Route 101 East to Milford, take the Route 13 exit, take a right off ramp to Route 13 South following for approximately 6 miles to your first overhead blinking light. You will see a Parker's sign on right, take a right and follow for 3 miles to Parker's on left.

Or:
Take Route 124 through Sharon to New Ipswich. Go through the center up hill past fire station on right. After crossing small green bridge, take a left onto Route 123, follow to Greenville, just before stop sign bear right, follow out to next stop sign, take a right onto Route 31. Take next left back onto Route 123. Follow through Mason Center (sharp right curve, then church). Follow to bottom of hill and take next left onto Depot Road. Follow to T in road with yield sign. Take a left and follow about 2 or 3 miles to Parker's on right.

REVIEWS

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Breakfast At Parker Maple Barn

This place was not hard to find because we used our GPS, but good luck if you are not equipped with one, it will be a challenge! We arrived @ 1:30pm April 1, 2007. the place was packed! That only upped our interest since we are dedicated foodies. We were told a 1 1/2 hour wait. That was not an issue because there is plenty to do while you are waiting. There was an informative sugar house tour that we enjoyed very much. What I did not enjoy was the food and neither did my husband. We each had 2 different hashes, mine ham and his corned beef. There was very little meat in either of the hashes, it was more like a mash potato. The pancakes were also very disappointing. Too thick and zero flavor. The prices were very high for the quality that you got. While I enjoyed the grounds and the tour I will not return for the food.