With spooky season creeping up on us, what better way to celebrate trickery than solving your way out of a corn maze?! Bring family and friends for a day of trial and error as you navigate your way through corn as far as the eye can see at these corn mazes near New York City.
1. Queens County Farm, Queens
The Amazing Maize Maze at Queens County Farm will open for the season September 15 and remain open through October 28. Along your way through this 3-acre maze you must solve puzzles, uncover clues, and find your way out of the maze. And if you’re looking for more of a challenge they even offer a nighttime special called Maze By Moonlight where you have your chance of escaping the maze once it gets dark out!
📍 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Queens
🗓️ September 15 – October 28
2. Stony Hill Farms, NJ
You’re sure to get lost in this 10-acre corn maze packed with misleading walkways and bridges throughout. In addition, there are games positioned throughout the maze as you try and discover its annual theme. Don’t worry if you get completely lost because you can always call or locate a Maze Master! This maze opens for the season Saturday, September 2nd.
📍 15 North Rd, Chester, NJ
🗓️ September 2 – November 5
3. Argos Farm, NJ
This farm is sure to offer you a fun-filled day with the family! Explore the 2-acre maze and celebrate making it out the other side with a delicious fresh donut. Their fall festival fun opens for the season Saturday, September 16 and will stay open through Sunday, October 19.
📍 1250 Lacey Rd, Forked River, NJ
🗓️ September 16 – October 19
4. Harbes Orchard, Long Island
Open weather permitting, Harbes Orchard will offer a variety of mazes to entertain you this fall. You can choose between the Wizard Of Oz Maze or the Robin Hood Corn Maze, both of which open in September. And, for an extra scare, experience the orchard when it transforms into a Spooky Night Maze on Saturdays in October and one special Sunday night!
📍 812 Sound Ave, Calverton, NY
🗓️ September – October
5. Kelder’s Farm, NY
Think you have what it takes to make it through the windy, twisty dead ends of the Kelder’s Farm maze? This year is the time to try! Though we’re not yet sure what their corn maze theme will be this year, last year they made it into a tribute for Ukraine and those that have suffered in the midst of this crisis. When you make it through the maze there are 30+ other fun farm attractions to check out. Their corn maze opens in September.
📍5755 US-209, Kerhonkson, NY
🗓️ September – October
6. F&W Schmitt’s Family Farm, Long Island
At F&W Schmitt’s Family Farm’s 7-acre corn maze you’ll be sure to find dead ends, mis-steps, and a whole lot of joy for every age. Beyond the corn maze they offer a playground, hayrides, pumpkins and veggies, a petting zoo, pony rides, and more. The fall festivities open Saturday, September 23rd.
📍 26 Pinelawn Rd, Melville, NY
🗓️ September 23 – October 30
7. Outhouse Orchards, NY
Enjoy the fall weather and race your friends and family in this alien-themed corn maze! Find secret clues about monsters and amazing feats of farming as you travel through winding paths on a mission to find your way out. Though it doesn’t say exactly when the corn maze opens, their picking season begins September 2nd, so we can only hope the corn maze will open shortly after if not at the same time!
📍 139 Hardscrabble Rd, North Salem, NY
🗓️ September – October
8. Ort Farms, NJ
For over six generations, Ort Farms has brought joy and festivities to the fall months. Beyond the corn maze the farm even offers a 5-acre sunflower trail, hayrides, pony rides, carriage and train rides, pick your own veggies, food trucks, and apple canons! Their corn maze will open Friday, September 1st.
📍 25 Bartley Rd, Long Valley, NJ
🗓️ September 1 – October
9. Alstede Farms, NJ
Included with your admission ticket to the farm, advance your way through the corn maze and discover interesting facts about the yearly theme. If you’re looking for an extra thrill, try traveling through the maze by flashlight during their Harvest Moon Hayride that begins past dark! Their corn maze opens Friday, September 1st.
📍 1 Alstede Farms Ln, Chester Township, NJ
🗓️ September 1 – October
10. Hank’s Pumpkintown, Long Island
Hank’s Pumpkintown offers not one, but three corn maze activities! And beyond the mazes admission includes unlimited wagon rides, unlimited tractor rides, calf roping, cow milking, pedal cart race tracks, duck races, wooden play structures, and more. They open for the season Saturday, September 9th.
📍 240 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill, NY
🗓️ September 9 – October 31
Bonus: Barbie-Themed Corn Maze
New Jersey’s Happy Day Farm just announced their 2023 corn maze and let’s just say, this Barbie farms! That’s right, Happy Days will be what you could call Barbie’s Dream Farmhouse for the season. The 10-acre corn maze will be cut into the shape of power duo, Barbie and Ken, all fall long. They open for the season Saturday, September 9th and you can learn more here.
📍 135 Iron Ore Road, Manalapan, NJ
🗓️ September 9 – October 20