The Visitor Center and Klingsberg Aviary will be closed to visitors from December 22, 2024, through January 22, 2025.

MAPLE HARVEST FESTIVAL!!!

Hello all Shaver’s Creek friends,

THIS weekend is our annual Maple Harvest Festival:

Shaver’s Creek has held this annual festival since 1984 to celebrate the first harvest of the new year and help people learn about the maple sugaring process — both in colonial times and the present day. At the festival you can:

  • learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees and visit the Sugar Shack to see sap being turned into syrup!
  • watch costumed interpreters demonstrate sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers
  • enjoy live music and storytelling
  • see live birds of prey and reptile shows
  • savor all-you-can-eat pancakes and maple syrup

COME ONE, COME ALL — out to the center to enjoy music, animal shows, maple syrup lessons, syrup, pancakes, hot cocoa and more!!!!!

The 2011 Maple Harvest Festival Schedule of Entertainment is as follows:

Saturday events

10:30–11:00 a.m.  Bird of Prey Show with Bethany Thomas

11:00–11:45 a.m.  PA Folk Music by Palomino, Cardinal, and Otter

12:00–12:30 p.m.  Amphibian and Reptile Show with Alyssa Thiel and Mark Garner

12:00–1:00 p.m.  PA Folk/ Bluegrass Music by Tussey Mountain Moonshiners

1:15–2:00 p.m.  A Capella Music by Nittany Knights

2:00–2:30 p.m.  Animal Migration Presentation with Julianne Kober

2:30–3:00 p.m.  Bird of Prey Show with Bethany Thomas

Sunday events

10:00–10:30 a.m.  Bird of Prey Show with Christine Jervis and Will Foster* 

10:00–10:30 a.m.  Family Discovery Walk with Lucy Richardson* 

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.  Dance Performance by Horseshoe Cloggers

12:00–12:30 p.m.  Animal Migration Presentation with Julianne Kober

12:00–12:45 p.m. Folk/Rock Music by Ellen Siberian-Tiger & Friends

1:00–1:30 p.m.  Family Discovery Walk with Lucy Richardson

1:30–2:15 p.m.  Folk/Rock Acoustic Music by James Millican

2:00–2:30 p.m.  Amphibian and Reptile Show with Brock Benson

2:30–3:00 p.m.  Bird of Prey Show with Rachel Thor, Mitch Russell and Jessie Cho

                                   * These programs are for Shaver’s Creek Members Only 

For more information about the festival, please visit our website at:

I hope to see you all out and about at the Creek this weekend! Have your family and friends become a part of the Shaver’s Creek family.  

Until this weekend,

     ~ Sting Ray, Spring 2011 Intern