I survived the world's largest corn maze.

[City Lights]

Is this maze cool or what? Luckily, they give each person a map before entering. They also keep track of how many people enter to make sure everyone gets out before closing.

The design has 10.7 miles of trail and covers 28.5 acres. There are 4 mazes and 3 bridges within the picture, and you can enjoy exploring one maze in about half an hour or do all four. The "Glove" maze is 0.8 miles of trail, the "Ivy" maze is 2.1 miles of trail, the "Cubs" maze is 3.8 miles of trail and the "Sox" maze is 4.0 miles of trail.

The cornfield is planted in early May both north-south and east-west to form a dense stand. The original drawing is scanned into a computer and the trails are designed into the mazes. When the corn is 10 inches tall, the trails are tilled guided by a Global Positioning System. The bridges are carefully set in place with a large fork lift and the steps and braces are bolted on. In July, most of the trails are tilled again to clean them up.

http://www.richardsonfarm.com/r-maze.htm

[wildhorses]

1. that is AWESOME

talk about your field of dreams...

[City Lights]

3. They've also done a tribute to aviation, Lewis and Clark, and

Da Bears. It was an amazing thing to see.

[wildhorses]

11. I love your sigline...

I am part Cree on my Mom's side and part Cherokee on my Dad's side

[City Lights]

15. That is so cool!

Thanks, wildhorses. I love your username.

[Haole Girl]

2. That's huge!

I went through one in England, but it wasn't half the size of that. I'm glad you survived it. Definitely *not* for the claustrophobic!

[City Lights]

4. We did one in England too. At Hampton Court.

Nothing like this one though! We could see through and over the one at Hampton Court, plus it was much smaller. I wouldn't have gone in this one without a map.

[elocs]

5. I went through one last October near Chicago.

It was shaped like Johnny Appleseed and you got a map before you went in, too. After it got dark they had the second half of the maze haunted. We got there early and were surprised to see hundreds of people lined up to get in when we got out.

[City Lights]

6. Ooooo, haunted.

That would be awesome.

The one we went to is open 'til Midnight on Friday and Saturday. I'd like to go back and go through it again at night.

[elocs]

7. This was a beautiful fall, October night with a full moon.

The first scarey thing was a guy jumping out of the corn with a chainsaw running (sans chain). Amazingly, when one of the 16 year old boys in our party encountered this he was so freaked out that he had to go back. It was funny hearing all the screams as we went through.

[City Lights]

9. Do you happen to remember the name of the place,

or where it was located?

If done right, a haunted maze could be very .

[Nicole]

14. Hey, did you check out events from there?

I clicked on the link you provided for the maze & found events 1/2 way down the right side of the page.

Events include a haunted halloween. So there you go!

[City Lights]

17. Get out!

A haunted maze right in front of me. We got the full scoop on the place today, but they didn't say a word about it being haunted.

Thanks for enlightening me!

[Nicole]

18. You're welcome

Now I want to go for Halloween! Long drive from Oklahoma though.

[elocs]

22. The place I went to was Jonamac Orchard. Here is the link:

http://jonamacorchard.com/corn_maze.php

It is in Malta, IL and just opened this past weekend. I see they are having the haunted corn maze again in October.

[City Lights]

23. Thanks, elocs.

I'll check it out.

[ThingsGottaChange]

8. I used to live in Spring Grove!

Never made it to the corn maze though. It really is awesome.

[City Lights]

12. Small world!

[swag]

10. It's so great that it's doesn't have a Grateful Dead theme.

[Nicole]

13. How fun!

I would love to go through that.

[City Lights]

20. Both adults and kids enjoyed it.

We went with my sister (DUer, borlis) and her family. My kids went by themselves with one of borlis' kids, and wouldn't take a map. (Mine said they didn't want to be "map nerds." They did take a cell phone though. They did fine, but it was impossible to meet up with them inside the maze because without a map, they had no reference point.

[shugah]

16. that is a cool maze!

but doesn't it seem like it ought to be a corn maize?

our local corn maze actually has a political path this year - at the top it says "dick de vos or granholm." i can't find a picture of it to post. it's not nearly as well developed or attractive as this one you posted, but it doesn't sound like they're using the same "technology" either.

on edit - the correct answer to the question in the maze is of course, granholm.

[pokerfan]

19. Either that or the Amazing Maize Maze.

[City Lights]

21. My husband always says Michigan's colors are corn and blue.

He went to MSU.

[LynneSin]

24. This is the only Maze I've done - it made it to Guiness World Book

This was created in conjunction with my college (although I was out already) and for a bit of time was the largest maze.

[City Lights]

26. Another cool maze!

I like it!

[mikeytherat]

25. Shouldn't that be, "Corn Maize"?

Just askin...

mikey_the_rat

[borlis]

27. When I asked child #3 if he had fun there last night his reply was

"All that walking made me really tired." The little stinker who is 4 years old still didn't fall asleep until after 11:30 last night. So much for tiring out the little ones. Not mine anyway.