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Best Fall Festivals & Corn Mazes in Canada.Alberta Fraay Corn Box When time is tight pint-sized fun is better than no fun at all whether it’s a daytrip or a weekend escape, enjoying time together and making family memories matters.
 
We are thrilled with the feedback from Canadians who love their corn mazes and pumpkin patches and took time to “Tell Mom” where to find the best.
 
Here’s the scoop. This year's Best Fall Festivals & Corn Mazes for Families regional lists reveal a plethora of chances to have fun with kids. Spanning three regions within Canada plus eight distinct geographic regions in the US, the collection of harvest festivals and corn mazes continues to grow. The fun does not just include corn mazes, hayrides, pumpkins and apple cider. In Canada activities run the gamut from gemstone mining, pig races, and barrel-train rides to scary Ghouls Night at Heritage Park in Alberta and booming cranberries in BC. Nova Scotia offers luscious oatcakes and the chance to pick apples, pears and plums straight from the orchards. In Manitoba families have the chance to make their own scarecrows or try their luck with a pumpkin catapult.

Highlights of the 2018 harvest season in Canada include:

Canada's Western Edge - Best Corn Mazes and Fall Festivals for Families. From Alberta to BC it’s time to celebrate the season. Taste sweet apple butter or corncob jelly; carve a pumpkin or stuff a scarecrow; play flashlight tag or chase the kids through the corn stalks; ride on a wagon full of hay or bob for apples; walk on a cranberry bog. The season has family fun written all over it. Forget the lawn; the laundry will wait. Take the kids and creat some fun. 
 
Canada's Heartland - Best Corn Mazes and Fall Festivals for Families.Alberta Fraay Corn Boy  From Ontario to Manitoba and Saskatchewan there is no time like the present to take the kids and getaway for some fun. Mazes provide unique examples of agri-art meant to be enjoyed and we have assembled some of the best for you review. It’s time to find the perfect pumpkin; share a hayride with your child; hug a goat feed a bunny.

Atalntic Canada - Best Corn Mazes and Fall Festivals for Families.
From Nova Scotia and Quebec to Prince Edward Island, the idea is simple, enjoy the season. Sometimes with a pumpkin patch and sometimes haunted on weekend nights, mazes provide unique signatures as the lunar calendar ends the calendar year. Taste sweet apple butter or corncob jelly; carve a pumpkin or s
 stuff a scarecrow; ride on a wagon full of hay or bob for apples. Make time for fun with your kids.

Highlights of the 2018 harvest season in US.  The 2018 regional lists of reveal a plethora of chances to have fun with kids. The collection of festivals and events spans the gamut from barnyard mini golf in Vermont and pumpkin bowling in Kansas to pig races, hayrides, living history, and most American of all corn mazes.

Content posted by Nancy Nelson-Duac, Curator of the Good Stuff for the Family Travel Files with contributions from readers and images from Kraay Family Farm in Alberta. Before making plans please confirm dates and times because Mother Nature can be unpredictable. Copyright updated 2018.