Deerhurst Press Release

Deerhurst resort pours on pure canadian fun for maple-flavoured spring break

MUSKOKA, ON., February 14, 2007 – It takes forty gallons of clear maple sap to make one gallon of the sweet syrup we lavish on pancakes. You’ll find that out, and have buckets of fun, when you visit Deerhurst Resort during its “Gold Rush” maple festival, running March 9 to 18 then weekends through April 8.

The celebration centers around Deerhurst’s timbered sugar shack. Sap boils slowly in a large evaporator pan as kids and adults learn traditional and modern methods for getting 2,000 trees worth of sap from woods to table. Sugar bush tours include a wagon ride, taffy-making on snow and maple treats from the pastry kitchen, plus cider, hot chocolate and locally roasted maple coffee.

Aptly named Executive Chef Rory Golden oversees the harvest. Steeped in syrup science and lore, he confirms, “It’s not just for breakfast anymore.”

In 14 years what started as a unique attraction has spread to every corner of the 800-acre resort. Deerhurst’s popular Maple Madness package includes two night’s accommodation and family sugar bush tour for CDN $190 per adult (based on double), just $1 more than regular room rates. The resort’s Aveda Spa adds maple crème manicures and pedicures to its Muskoka Maple sugar body scrub. And, of course, there’s the food.

This year, Golden looked east to Quebec for inspiration from the country’s largest syrup producing region. His French Canadian maple brunch buffet includes classics like pea soup, “tourtiere” meat pies, maple roasted ham, white chocolate maple mousse and “oeufs a la neige,” snowy meringues poached in syrup.

An all-you-can-eat feast, it is served, complete with pancakes, right below the sugar shack in cozy, log-walled Steamers restaurant for CDN $12.95 per person. Throughout Deerhurst you can indulge in pancake breakfasts and a range of maple-spiked menu items, from salad dressing to butternut squash soup, salmon and cheesecake.

For families who come to see the forest and the trees during school spring break, Deerhurst’s biggest draws are location and activities. An easy, two-hour drive from Toronto, here snow still invites skiing. And, depending on weather, other on-site sports include dog sledding, skating, snow tubing, Hummer tours and sleigh rides.

Even if spring thaws, indoors there’s a 20,000 square foot sports centre with swimming pool, tennis courts and a video arcade. Deerhurst also takes child’s play seriously with a YMCA day camp for kids 18 months to age five based on theme days that run from mad scientist to mediaeval. From March 9 to 18 that’s supplemented with a program of resort activities including jewelry making, giant board games and basketball. Maple or otherwise, there’s always a new adventure at Deerhurst. Plan your spring getaway at http://www.deerhurstresort.com/marchbreak

Deerhurst Resort is home to one of Muskoka's earliest historic lodges, superstar Shania Twain's recording discovery and the region's first modern, 36-hole golf course development. Located on Peninsula Lake just east of the town of Huntsville, Ontario, this classic escape offers the most on-site activities of any resort in Eastern Canada 1-800-461-4393. http://www.deerhurstresort.com.

If you would like to obtain more information or reproduction quality photographs, please contact:

Anne White
Director Public Relations
T 416.566.9297
F 416.883.8975
awhite@deerhurstresort.com

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