Celebrate Massachusetts Maple Month!

For coach groups or organizations of 25 or more

Group tour promotion for March

We are again joining with the local sugarhouse, The Sugar Shack, in North Hadley, for maple month at the Deerfield Inn. Come watch the sap boil, taste and tour as the sweet steam rises high over the Pioneer Valley, Travel along one of our most scenic roads for a maple sugar theme lunch at the historic Deerfield Inn. Stop at another Pioneer Valley Pleasure on your return trip.

A great day-trip, a sweet trip, a beat-the-March-is-mud-season-blues trip!

Massachusetts Maple Month

The Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture has declared March as Massachusetts Maple Month! On route 47 in Hadley lies the Sugar Shack, a family -owned sugarhouse on generations-old land. Dotted with grand tobacco barns, and home to the world-famous Hadley asparagus, your coach will roll along scenic route 47 towards the Deerfield Inn for a special maple syrup theme lunch. The air is crisp, but our hearths and hearts are warm, and your group will delight in this taste of rural New England. Combine these pleasures with a trip to Yankee Candle, the Butterfly Conservatory, the Old Deerfield Country Store, or any other Pioneer Valley Pleasure for a sure-fire successful day trip for your people.

Book your group tour today!

MASSACHUSETTS MAPLE MONTH LUNCH BUFFET MENU

Freshly baked sweet bread and butter

Butternut bisque with maple syrup and apples

Maple barbecue flank steak
or
Baked cod with cumin and maple glaze
or
Roast pork with grain mustard-maple sauce
or
Grilled chicken with maple-Dijon cream

Maple syrup mousse
or
Indian pudding with maple syrup

Coffee • Tea

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The price for this lunch is $18.00
Each group leader chooses 3 entrées and 1 dessert with guaranteed counts 7 days in advance. For groups of 25 or more, 2 comps per coach

All entrées are served on the buffet with the Chef's choice of rice or potato and garden vegetables. The soup and dessert will be served to the table with coffee and tea.

Tax and 20% gratuity will be added to the bill.

Getting here

From the South. Take I-91 North. In Mass take Exit 24. At the end of the ramp bear right.

Follow Routes 5 & 10 for five miles. On the right is a sign for Historic Deerfield. On the left will be a Sunoco Service Station. Take the left immediately before the Sunoco. Where the street forks, bear right. The Inn is half a mile down on the left.

From the North. Take exit 25. At the end of hte ramp turn left. At the light turn left again. Then follow the directions above.

From Boston. Take either Route 2 West to Greenfield, or I-90 West to I-91, then follow the directions above.

Distance from major cities:

New York City - 3.5 hours
Hartford - 1 hour
Montreal - 5 hours
Boston - 2 hours
Manchester - 2 hours
Portland - 3 hours

 

 



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