About LuckySap

The site answers the questions a sugaring season throws at you, in the order they come up. When will the sap run this week? When does my state usually open? Which of my trees can I tap? How much syrup should I expect, and is it done yet? Can I sell it?

• When-to-tap dates and live sap-flow forecasts for 21 states and provinces.
• A county maple atlas covering 528 US counties and Canadian census divisions.
• 31 sourced guides and 10 calculators.
• The rules for selling syrup in 21 states and provinces, and for tapping on public land in 21.

The app does the part a website can’t: it follows your own trees. It gives you a sap-flow outlook for your spot, an evening notification when tomorrow looks like a strong sap day, a log for every collection and boil, and season stats you can compare year to year. It’s free to download, with an optional Premium subscription.

LuckySap is built by Stuck at Home LLC, an independent software company that makes apps for hobbies people take seriously: collecting, metal detecting, backyard chickens and, every spring, maple.

Every number on the site traces to a source, and every page lists its sources at the foot. We lean on the people who measure things for a living: university extension programs, the North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual, USDA and Statistics Canada tables, the US Forest Service, and the national weather services.

The guides are written from evidence tables rather than from memory. The table behind the boiling, filtering and bottling guides alone has 300 rows: 276 quote a source we opened, checked word for word against its saved text, and 24 come from trade press or equipment makers and say so. None come from memory. Where good sources disagree, the page shows both instead of picking a winner quietly.

The data pages explain their own method:

When we added 24 guides in October 2026, each one went through a separate fact-check: a second pass that matched every number, date, name and attribution back to the evidence. It covered 656 claims and led to 31 corrections.

The calculators share one set of maple math, tested against the published tables it comes from. Pages about rules (selling syrup, tapping on public land, sugaring outside the maple belt) show the date we last read the official sources, because rules change and you might act on what they say.

The site is free and carries no ads. It exists because some readers try the app, and some of those choose Premium. None of the gear links earn us anything: no affiliate or referral programs are active.