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Heartland Country Corn Maze

Tuesday, 25th October 2005 by James

Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

The 2002 design of the Heartland Country Corn Maze near Harrisburg was a coyote howling at the moon (with the letters USA in the lower right corner). This year they drew a 6.6 acre triceratops.

Thanks: David Thornton

7 Responses to 'Heartland Country Corn Maze'

  1. 1. Deane says:

    I went to this year’s maze, and it was a complete blast for me and the kids. Here’s how it works:

    – You get a map of the maze with 10 points marked on it.

    – You get a card with a fill-in the-blanks type trivia (”The triceratops weighed ___ tons”). Each point has the answer to a question.

    – You use the map to find the 10 points and complete your card. The maps is incredibly accurate, but it still made for great fun, especially when you moved out of the straight-line area and into the dinsaur design, with all of its curved passages.

    – There’s a hidden marker, not on the map. It contains a specially-shaped holepunch that you use to punch your card. Show this punch at the box office, and you get a free concession.

    I took my kids (10, 4, and 18 months in a stroller), and we had a great time. Highly recommended if you’re ever around Sioux Falls.

    If you can, go at just the right time when the corn is high enough to block everything off, but fresh enough so that it hasn’t been trampled. There were a lot of places where people made their own passages though the corn.

  2. 2. Corey Vilhauer says:

    Yes — this maze was great.

    The best is to go at night — it’s pitch black except for your flashlight.

    South Dakota doesn’t have much… but we’ve got corn mazes… and that’s all that matters.

  3. 3. William Eckley says:

    Here is a spooky one in Phoenix AZ. Happy Halloween. Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  4. 4. chewbaccawokka says:

    Does anybody besides me notice something a little weird going on with the tail? Particularly the LOOK of it?

  5. 5. Gabe says:

    yeah, that’s totally what it LOOKs like.

  6. 6. Dave Thornton says:

    Does anybody besides me notice something a little weird going on with the tail? Particularly the LOOK of it?

    Please, chewbaccawokka; not while the kids are listening!

  7. 7. Sproul says:

    hey… thanx for saying you guys like it… c ya later!!
    -sarah sproul
    heartland country corn maze

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