Sugaring in Rouge Park connects Black and Indigenous Detroiters

Sugaring in Rouge Park connects Black and Indigenous Detroiters

Mild spring weather brings Rouge Park’s Stone Bridge Trail area to a traditional boiling point.  2026 marks six years of sugaring in Rouge Park’s “Sugarbush,” Detroit’s largest patch of sugar maples near Outer Drive and Tireman Avenue.  “Sugaring” is the Anishinaabeg tradition of tapping sugar maple trees in the late winter and early spring to collect sap that’s boiled down to produce sugar and syrups.  Today, syrup production has expanded far b…