Comments on: Sweet Corn Mazes

By: p@ssion

p@ssion — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:36:18 +0000

Great Idea to map corn mazes via Google Earth. This must be a lot of work to find the maze and to map them.
In the UK there is a maze in maize and at their website you can also read how they make the maze

http://www.mazeinmaize.co.uk/maze%20in%20making.html

Via puzzles.about.com you can also find a list of mazes in North America.
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/blmazeus.htm

By: waltzingaustralia

waltzingaustralia — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:54:09 +0000

Thanks for the response.

I need to get out there and check some of these out.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:01:38 +0000

waltzingaustralia- All I know about creating a corn maze I gleaned from the Meadows Maze website. They use a GPS to help them map out where the trails are going to be, then a tractor creates the trails by tearing up the soil when the corn is just sprouting. I assume that doing this when the corn is small allows them to see both where the corn is going to be, and where the tractor has already been. Rural Hills website says that the mazes got a large boost in the 1970s when farmers needed other means of revenue to support the farm. Today, almost none of these mazes are the only attraction the farm provides. Most of them have all kinds of fall activities including hayrack rides, haunted mazes, petting zoos, games, food and more.

By: waltzingaustralia

waltzingaustralia — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:24:11 +0000

Wow — those are fabulous. Thanks. I had no idea corn mazes existed. (And no need to apologize for the title — I appreciated the word play. And it makes me wonder if someone came up with the idea of making mazes from maize because of the name, or is it just because it’s the right height?)

They look like an amazing (sorry) amount of work. Know anything about how they’re created?