The 6.5-acre corn maze at Old McDonald's Farm features a silo farm scene.Football, festivals and corn mazes - three sure signs fall has arrived.
The first three of several area corn mazes are opening Saturday, Sept. 20, offering seasonal fun on Saturdays and Sundays through Nov 2. From high-tech smartphone games for adults exploring the twisting turns through a corn maze to old-fashioned hayrides, each offers a bumper crop of activities for the whole family.
Aw, shucks! It's just plain fun.
OLD MCDONALD'S FARM
• Location: 16705 Coulterville Road, Sale Creek.
• Theme: "So God Made a Farmer" corn maze.
• Days and hours: 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. Saturdays, noon-7 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 2. Open Tuesdays-Fridays for school field trips, birthday parties and other large groups by appointment.
• Admission: $12 ages 3 and up; pumpkins an additional fee.
• Other things to do: Hayrides to pumpkin patch, giant slides, pumpkin slingshot, farm market, Calf-A and Old McDonald's Mining Co. store, wagon rides, Barnyard 500 pedal tractor race, hands-on fun in the harvest barn. Farmersgolf is additional charge.
• Website: www.oldmcdonaldsfarm.net.
The River Maze in Ocoee, Tenn., is marking its 10th year.RIVER MAZE
• Location: Birchland Ocoee Farms, 1371 Highway 64, Benton, Tenn.
• Theme: "Ocoee ... Place of Passion and Beauty" corn maze, "Beauty and the Bees" soybean maze, "No Right Turn" maze
• Days and hours: 11 a.m-9:30 p.m. Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 2; 5-9:30 p.m. Friday nights in October only. Groups by appointment.
• Admission: $10 ages 4 and up; pumpkins an additional fee.
• Other things to do: Admission includes all mazes, hayride, goat walk, milking the cows, corn toss, corn box, horsey tire swings, "Tag with Spookley and His Friends" and "The Fairy Tale Trail." Tokens must be purchased for face/pumpkin painting, "Water Wars," cow train, pumpkin basketball, corny football and corn cannon.
• Website: www.therivermaze.com.
AUTUMN ACRES
• Location: 1096 Baier Road, Crossville, Tenn.
• Theme: Trivia Corn Maze, Farm Tracks corn maze, FSI corn maze
• Days and hours: 4-10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, 1-6 p.m. Sundays through Nov 2. Open by appointment 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday (all times Central).
• Admission: $10 armband for ages 3 and up, $2 discount for ages 65 and older; $15 VIP admission armband includes ticket to barrel train ride and two tickets for the corn cannon; $140 season pass for two adults and up to three children/grandchildren. Pumpkins $4.
• Other things to do: Hayrides, pirate ship playground, kids' corral with giant tunnel slides, bonfires, general store, petting zoo, pumpkin patch, Barn Yard Cafe. Additional fee for corn cannon, face painting and animal feed.
• Website: autumnacres.net
- Compiled by staff writer Susan Pierce