The Honeybee Maze - Dr. Maze's 2011 Corn Maze

The Honeybee Maze - Dr. Maze's 2011 Corn Maze

Our 2011 Corn Maze honors the honeybee. The path through the corn is cut into the shapes of bees and flowers. As you find your way through the maze you will encounter mini-mazes and honeybee quizzes. The black line in the maze map is the path through the maze.

Honeybees and beekeepers have had a difficult time in recent years, and this year was no exception. Diseases, pests and chemicals in the environment all contribute to an ongoing decline in honeybee health. When we think about honeybees, the first thought that comes to mind is honey. Even so, honeybees play a much more important role in our daily lives. About eighty percent of our food crops depend upon honeybees and other pollinators. Without the help of honeybees, those crops would be much reduce and our lives would be utterly changed.

As you walk though the maze, test your knowledge of honey bees at our ten honeybee question stations. Do you know how much honey a single worker bee will make in her lifetime?

Continuing our innovation in last year's corn maze, we embedded six bonus walk-through mazes into the Honeybee Corn Maze, including the mini-mazes as part of the maze design. These extra mazes created a whole new level of maze experience. The embedded mazes are located in the dark areas in the maze drawing.

As you pass through the maze, you first encounter Hop Dots, the easiest maze. The second maze is the Finding Your Way Farm Sad to Happy Maze, a more difficult maze. Next comes the Number Maze. If you can count to 4, you can eventually solve this maze. The fourth maze is the No-Left-Turn Maze. This maze has a simple solution, but it's not easy to figure it out. The Spider Rope Maze comes next. Here you clip yourself to a rope and climb through the spider web to reach the other side. No fair unclipping before you get across! In the Honeycomb Maze you imagine you are a bee that needs to get to the opposite side of the hive. It's not so hard, if you can think like a bee.

The daytime entrance fee to the maze is $7 (10:00 am to 6:00 pm) The last entrance to the maze is always 1/2 hour before the farm closes.

Walking through the corn maze after dark is an entirely different experience from solving the daytime maze. On Fridays and Saturdays in October we keep the farm open after dark for Flashlight Nights. If you can't find your flashlight, you can purchase a Dr. Maze flashlight at the farm stand.

The Flashlight Night entrance fee is $9, starting at 6:00 pm.

The last corn maze entrance is always 30 minutes before farm closing.

Flashlight Nights at the corn maze. Fridays & Saturdays in October till 10 pm.

This maze is corn maze designer Dr. Maze's eleventh corn maze. To see all the corn mazes Dr. Maze created up through 2010, check out the Maze Retrospective page.