Oh my, we decided to open a Corn Maze

admincorn — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:14:24 +0000

We must be crazy. With at least four businesses already, five children, animals, and too many community groups to count, what were we thinking? Fall of 2021 we were spending a weekend away in Michigan with our two youngest, 15 and 9, and looking for something we could all do together. Now, anyone with children of different ages knows that finding an activity that everyone is excited about is a challenge. Most often, either a child or a parent ends up dragging their feet along, asking when we are done, or worse yet, staring at a phone the whole time. I was checking the local paper and found two corn mazes advertised in the area. Our 15 year old daughter, who would have rather spent the weekend with her older siblings back home, was on board, so off we went.

Our family used to enjoy an annual visit to Door County's former corn maze, but they had been closed for a few years now. We arrived at the Michigan venue, donned some extra layers (it was chilly) and dove in. After tackling the maze, we explored the grounds while waiting for a hay ride to the pumpkin patch and apple slingshot. Kevin and I sat on a bench as we watched our two daughters laughing and racing each other up the hay bale mountain. Seeing the our two girls laughing together, and all of the other families playing and smiling, Kevin said, "we could do this." So, our journey began.

We visited a couple more mazes in the fall of 2021. As we traveled, we made some notes of what we liked and what we would do differently. Arriving home, we filled our older kids in on our plans, and they started coming up with ideas for a haunted maze, which we hope to do at the end of October. Although Door and Kewaunee counties have orchards and pumpkin patches, they currently have no corn maze. Corn mazes appeal to all ages, and our hope is that other families will visit our maze and have the same great experience that we always have had. It's going to be a lot of work, and I'm sure we'll be questioning our sanity a bit when, in the midst of a hot and otherwise busy June, we are planting all those pumpkins and plotting the maze in the field. If it brings families together and gives them a reason to set aside the phones for a few hours, it will all be worth it.

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