Laurel Hill State Park Maple Tour, Somerset While our maple syrup is not quite as famous as our mushrooms, Pennsylvania is among the top 10 U.S. producers of the sweet stuff, and Somerset County is the place to tap into the tradition’s local heritage. For two weekends every March, the area’s many sugar camps (maple When an hour or two in the fields just isn’t enough, a farm stay may be in order — and Coopersburg’s Flint Hill Farm is waiting with open arms. 110 visitpa.com ALEX BYERS (2 PHOTOS); HONEY IN THE HOLLOW BEE FARM the spring or early summer, you can pick your own ripe strawberries, cherries, and blackberries; plums, apricots, peaches, and apples start to ripen in late summer, just as the farm’s sunflowers burst into bloom. Fall visitors also can take a hayride to the pumpkin patch, and the Farm Market carries locally made jams, butters, salsas, and honey year-round. orchards outfitted with sugar houses, where sap is boiled down into syrup) host Taste and Tour Camps . Each of the 25 camps is unique, with tasty extras on top of their family histories, special methods and signature syrups. Whether you visit Rockwood’s Livengood Brothers Maple for the maple kettlecorn, Normalville's Duck’s Maple Farm for bourbon barrel-aged maple candies or another camp, there are no bad choices. Cream of the Crop The pride of the Glick family since 1948, Maplehofe Dairy in Quarryville is everything you’d expect from a three-generation family agribusiness: wholesome, home-grown, and delicious. Maplehofe’s Holstein herd is fed with crops grown on-site for fresh, RBST-free dairy products, including their beloved lineup of flavored milks: chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, vanilla, and orange cream.