All about our "a-maize-ing" crazy corn MAZE!
The corn maze and farm visits will open September 6
Tickets:
$7 per person • Free for age 3 and younger
Group Rate: $6 per person for groups of 10 or more
From the end of August/early September until about the first of November, we offer visitors an opportunity to experience the fun of our crazy corn maze. The five-acre maze sits right in a field of about 10 acres, and provides more than two miles of trails (with shortcuts of course).
Each year we design a maze for fun as well as agricultural education. Mazers of all ages can enjoy the challenges of "making it through" while enjoying a little taste of "farm humor." Rest areas and water stations are available throughout the maze.
Additional discounts are offered for school field trips and very large groups. The corn maze ticket also includes a hayride around the farm, a visit with the farm animals, all of our available play areas - including the grain bin playhouse.
During select times, each ticket holder will receive a free gift just for visiting the farm...
During September: An apple from the orchard
During October: Choice of an apple or small pumpkin
A visit to Forrest Hall Farm & Orchard offers a lesson in agriculture and this year’s maze theme…
2008 | The Rooster
Take a walk through the maze (or run if it’s not too hot)! We haven’t permanent lost anyone in eight years, so don’t worry. Then visit with our farm animals, take a hayride, play games, or just hang out. Stop by the nostalgia corner in the barn, and don’t forget to stop by the farm shop for goodies to take home.
Our five acre maze has over two miles of trails - with appropriate shortcuts of course! There are rest stops in the maze, and we offer wagons to pull the little ones along. Ticket-holding mazers get a FREE gift for completing the maze.
This year’s maze design is a rooster. For centuries, the rooster was known as the “evil chicken” and the “ferocious clucker” as they have been known to chase anyone approaching their pens or their hens. Actually roosters play a really important role on a farm, especially when it comes to alerting the hens and other farm animals that a predator is near. They are the “watch dogs” of farm animals. They crow and squawk and dance…and they are good leaders. The problem comes when you have more than one rooster and the group must decide who is going to be the leader. This is called “pecking order,” and roosters take it very seriously. Once a rooster has become the leader, he stays the leader until either a new, bigger, stronger and more influential rooster comes along, or until he is too old to lead - and if this happens, the second in command rooster takes over. Roosters are beautiful and often-times quite colorful.
Come visit, and be “A-Maized”
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The Corn Maze Experience
We started as tobacco farmers...and never saw a need to be anything else. With the downsizing of tobacco growth, we needed a plan...a plan for our farm to survive. In comes Agri-Tourism...
During the summer of 2000, we came across an article about corn mazes in Progressive Farmer magazine and were intrigued by the possibilities. However, we weren't sure how something like this would be received in our community. We were sure of one thing - growing a little bit of corn and a little hay was not going to make up the missing farm income from tobacco production. We had to come up with something better than that...And welcome to the birth of the Forrest Hall Farm Crazy Corn Maze. To our surprise it was great fun. People came from all over. We've had local visitors, children on field trips, even visitors from Europe and Canada.