For Maine’s small sugarhouses, this weekend is like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the week before Christmas all bundled together.

“This is our one chance all year to really move our product, greet the customers and make some money,” said Alan Greene, who runs Greene Maple Farm in Sebago and is president of the Maine Maple Producers Association. “It’s really make or break for us.”

That’s why Maine Maple Sunday Weekend, now in its 43rd year, has become such a big deal. More than 100 sugarhouses are expected to open their doors on Saturday and Sunday, drawing thousands of Mainers with boiling demos, farm tours, pancake breakfasts, live music, maple candy, syrup, doughnuts, wagon rides, pony rides and more.

The event has become a huge draw for families, and some farms and sugarhouses, especially within an hour of Portland, can get crowded. Greene suggests people looking for a quieter experience might want to pick a place farther afield. The Maine Maple Sunday Weekend online interactive map helps you do that, and provides very specific details on what each place is offering. So far, with a cold winter and recent warm spell, Greene thinks the sap will be running in plenty of time for the event.

Here’s a list of seven fun things or sweet treats to try on Maine Maple Sunday, besides syrup, and a place or two where you can find each one. Many places are offering most, if not all, of the things on this list.

Tours

More than two dozen places are offering some kind of tour, including tours of the “sugarbush,” another name for where the trees are. At Dad’s Maple Sugar Shack in Harrison, you can tour the farm and see horses, chickens and angora rabbits, and also learn about the syrup-making process in the sugarhouse. At Dunn Family Maple in Buxton, there’s a team of “maple experts” waiting to give you a tour of the wood-fired evaporator and answer any questions.

Pancake breakfasts

At least 28 places are offering pancake breakfasts, the optimum delivery vehicle for their syrup. At Jillson Farm Sugarhouse in Sabattus, people partaking of the pancakes and sausages can eat in the farm’s greenhouse. They’ll also serve a Maine favorite, taffy on snow, on Sunday. At Royal River Orchards in New Gloucester, the outdoor breakfast includes pancakes, bacon, applesauce, maple baked beans and a hot beverage.

Music

Several farms and sugarhouses are offering live music, including at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Hinckley and Merrifield Farm in Gorham. At Grandpa Joe’s Sugar House in Baldwin, music will be provided by the Maine Squeeze Accordian Ensemble and The Half Moon Jug Band.

Doughnuts

Raider’s Sugarhouse in China will be selling maple doughnuts and whoopie pies, among other things, while Harris Farm in Dayton will have hot doughnuts with maple sugar coating. Overall about a dozen places will have some maple-connected doughnut product on hand.

Candy

There is no limit to the number of sweet treats maple syrup or maple sugar can be found in. Red Door Sugar Shack in Topsham will have maple cotton candy, maple popcorn and soft maple candy. Dead Stream Alpaca and Maple Farm in Readfield also has maple cotton candy, plus maple lollipops and maple sugar candy.

Animals

Many a sugarhouse in Maine is on a farm, so there are plenty of chances to see farm animals. At Crooked Brook Farm in Wells there are alpacas and sheep while Road’s End Farm in Canton has lambs and piglets, plus other animals. On Sunday at Highland Farms Sugar Works & Dairy in Cornish, you can meet a baby Jersey cow named Mr. Maple.

Ice cream

About three dozen of the Maine Maple Sunday Weekend participants are offering ice cream. If you’ve never had a real maple syrup sundae, you are missing out. Some places will give free samples of syrup on ice cream, including Douston Maple and Honey in Arundel, Battleridge Syrup in Clinton and Keegan Family Farm in Readfield.