Get Lost in Maine’s Best Corn Mazes

After popping it and slathering it with butter, aimlessly wandering through it is our third favorite thing to do with corn. Check out a few of our favorite fall mazes.

Maine corn mazes
From our October 2016 issue
Updated September 2024

Ricker Hill Orchards

295 Buckfield Rd., Turner.
207-225-3455.

Theme: None — just an old-school labyrinth
Cost: $9
Difficulty: Team Ricker Hill designs the maze for kids to get through inside a half hour.
Pro tip: Admission includes a whole agro-tainment complex — mini-golf, petting zoo, and more. Adults: drop into the cozy tasting room and have a couple pints of craft hard cider afterwards. Or before.

Treworgy Family Orchards

3876 Union St., Levant.
207-884-8354.

Theme: Peter Rabbit-themed. Hit check-in stations as you navigate the fictional characters’s ears, feet, and tail.
Cost: $13, ages 3 and up
Difficulty: Moderate — paths are long, but none too winding.
Pro tip: Bring your ticket to the Orchard Café for free ice cream.

Thunder Road Farm

178 Newport Rd., Corinna.
207-278-3708

Theme: Peanuts-themed to celebrate the beloved comic strip’s 75th anniversary.
Cost: $12, ages 4–59; $10, ages 60 and up
Difficulty: This is a large maze, but it can be split into two parts — younger children do not have to complete the full maze.
Pro tip: Come on Halloween to do some trick-or-treating inside the maze, where costumed characters lurk, distributing candy.

Pumpkin Valley Farm

100 Union Falls Rd., Dayton.
207-929-4088.

Theme: “Bee Kind”
Cost: $15, ages 3–64; $12, ages 65 and up
Difficulty: Expect to spend an hour exploring this 5-acre bee-themed maze.
Pro tip: Price includes admission to the corn maze, other farm activities, and access to other play areas. Do not skip the kettle corn (or, if you’re a little tyke, a ride on the tractor-pulled “cow train”).

Goughan’s Farm

875 Fort Fairfield Rd., Caribou.
207-498-6565.

Theme: Sunflowers
Cost: $9, ages 5 and up; $3, ages 4 and under
Difficulty: Set aside an hour, longer if you want to play any of the five carnival-style games hidden in the maze.
Pro tip: Complete at least one of those games and it earns you an ice cream when you find the exit.

Beth’s Farm Market

1986 Western Rd, Warren.
207-273-3695
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Theme: Friendly Scarecrow
Cost: $15, ages 5 and up
Difficulty: Not stroller-friendly. It takes about two hours to complete the maze — it is suggested you bring water with you.
Pro tip: Admission includes access to the Hay Pyramid (climb at your own risk).

Down East Magazine, May 2025

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