Two of the Best Corn Mazes and Agri-Adventures in Minnesota. Create your own screen free agri-adventure complete with corn stalks, pumpkins, fresh apple cider, and wagon rides. Run through a corn maze with your kids or find the perfect pumpkin for the porch.
Sever's Corn Maze and Fall Festival near Minneapolis (September - October). This maze experiences gets better every year by always presenting a new 14-acre corn stalk challenge for maze-goers and adding dozens of agri-activities to the menu of fun. New this year is an on-location pick-your-own pumpkin patch and it remains the home to the world's largest straw bale maze. Families have the chance to watch pig races, relax in the corn kernel pit or try target practice with the pumpkin slinger. Popular with little ones, the giant slides, pony rides, canary tent, and hayrides of course. Perhaps most fun of all the camel rides. Make time for the exotic petting zoo with animals from around the world including lemurs and camels, and kangaroos.
Bonus Points: Live music is a great addition to the weekend family fun.
Here's the deal. There is a discount coupon at their website. (Sever's Just south of the Twin Cities next to Canterbury Park, Shakopee. (952) 974-5000 or
www.severscornmaze.com)
Tweite's Fall Harvest Festival and Corn Maze Adventure near Rochester (September - October). For more than two decades this location has been offering what is now dubbed agri-entertainment. The interactive maze experience begins with a video and Maize-O-Vision decoder glasses are available to add an additional dimension to the fun. For the youngest maze-goers Tweite has created Spookley Kid Corn Maze complete with its own mini challenges. Additional family activities include gem mining, a barnyard version of golf, wagon rides, an Enchanted Forest with gnomes and the fairies hiding along the path. On site is a western town dubbed Dodge City complete with oodles of activities including steer roping, swinging horses, board walk of slides, giant tic-tac-toe, human-sized checker board, and the silo sand box. The interactive children’s area in Harvest Town has a builder’s corner, water play area, finger mazes, and a 20-foot high tree house slide. There’s a tire dragon and a dino bone dig near a giant dinosaur skeleton.
Bonus Points: Live entertainment and Pumpkin Pete farm tour tours add to the festive atmosphere.
Wait for it! Check out “The Bunny Run” - a five thousand square foot maze built for hopping. The destination is a tower with a rabbit hole tube-slide exit. (Tweite's Family Farm & Pumpkin Patch 1821 Frontier Rd. SW Byron, MN 55920. (507) 365-8035 or
www.tweite.com )
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