Sugarbush Farm Woodstock sugar shack
— — the farm where the syrup and the cheese share a roof.
Not only on a wall.
“Sugarbush Farm sits on a hillside above the Ottauquechee River, four miles east of Woodstock village. The Luce family has been making maple syrup and aging cheddar here since 1945, and the small sugar shack near the farm store runs hard through March. Visitors cross a one-lane covered bridge to reach the road in, then climb the dirt track to the top. The shack steams, the dogs come out to meet you, and the syrup is the day's.
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Sugarbush Farm is a family-run sugarbush and cheese operation at 591 Sugarbush Farm Road in Woodstock, Vermont, in Windsor County. The Luce family bought the property in 1945 and has run it for three generations, working a sugarbush of about 9,000 tapped maple trees alongside a cheese house producing fourteen varieties of aged Vermont cheddar. The farm sits on a hillside above the Ottauquechee River, reached by way of Taftsville and the Taftsville Covered Bridge, a Town-lattice span built in 1836 and one of the oldest covered bridges in the state.
Sugaring at Sugarbush runs roughly six weeks from late February into early April, when nights drop below freezing and days climb into the forties. The shack houses a wood-fired evaporator that boils sap drawn from the 9,000-tap network on the hill. Visitors during the season can stand inside the shack and watch the syrup darken from clear sap to Golden, Amber, Dark, and Very Dark across successive runs. The farm store stays open year-round, but March is when the sugar shack itself runs and the steam rises off the roof.
From Woodstock village, drive east on Route 4 about four miles to the village of Taftsville, then cross the covered bridge over the Ottauquechee and follow Hillside Road and Sugarbush Farm Road up the hill — the last stretch is a narrow dirt road, posted. The farm store is open year-round, seven days a week outside of major holidays, with free samples of cheese and syrup. The sugar shack itself is open during March and the Vermont Maple Open House Weekend each spring.