Get Your Fill of Pancakes in the Park at the Geauga County Maple Festival

What’s a maple festival without pancakes? When a Geauga County Maple Festival attendee asked current festival director Sara Brougher where they could find some flapjacks during the 1998 installment of the long-running event, it set in motion a new all-you-can eat pancake tent that premiered two years later. 

“We jumped on that, and it was a slow go in the beginning, that’s for sure,” Brougher recalls. “But we were persistent.”

The Pancakes in the Park tradition continues today, and the 2026 Geauga County Maple Festival is set for April 23 through 26. (Pancakes are served Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

Attendees can find the pancake tent in the center of the festival near the sap house. Diners pay $10 for all-you-can-eat pancakes, two fresh-off-the-griddle sausage links, coffee and juice. (Kids under 6 are welcome to eat for free with a paying adult.) 

Brougher says organizers brew coffee in five 320-ounce urns and go through 300 pounds of sausage and 500 pounds of pancake mix over the course of Pancakes in the Park each year. The meal is, of course, always complemented by local maple syrup from Chardon-based Richards Maple Products.

For more information about the Geauga County Maple Festival, visit maplefestival.com.

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