In the last few years, theme parks have made big bucks selling late-night tickets to Halloween-themed special events. Busch Gardens has Howl-O-Scream, Universal Studios has Halloween Horror Night, Sea World has Spooctacular, Lowry Park Zoo has Zoo Boo.
And Hodge Farms has the Newberry Cornfield Maze.
OK, so the cornfield maze isn’t as big or flashy or scary as the shows put on by the big-shots, but it’s got a certain small-town charm that Universal Studios could never match.
The Newberry Cornfield Maze is held every year on a remote farm about 20 miles west of Gainesville. For $9, you can walk the haunted corn maze as many times as you’d like and make one pass through the haunted house. For an additional $5, you can ride a haunted hay ride around the farm.
That’s about as ominous a maze entrance as I could imagine.
The corn maze was a lot of fun. The maze wasn’t too extensive, but navigating your way through with flashlights and moonlight makes the event pretty spooky. Of course, the masked, chainsaw-weilding psychos add some scares too.
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