Corn maze
Corn mazes are created as a summer pleasure ( usually until Thanksgiving used from July ) mazes in corn cultures.
On surfaces 10000-45000 m² a road network with up to three kilometers in length is possible for the visitors to take up to 1.5 hours. In order to achieve a denser vegetation ( Opaque ), the corn is sown mostly double ( criss-cross ). The labyrinth is planned as a scale diagram of paths, intersections and dead ends, and ( about 10 to 20 cm) created by milling or cutting after the first growth of the maize plants. In the design of such field mazes of different tools can be used up to the GPS technology and crops such as sunflower, hemp or millet. In addition to abstract patterns UFOs, maps, symbols, fairy-tale motifs, and the like are displayed.
Many of these mazes provide visitors with illustrated boards among other interesting facts about agriculture. They are combined with other attractions: Barefoot park, playground, sandpit, herb garden, straw castle, quizzes and contests, caves, climbing playground, petting zoo, pony rides, picnic niches or live concerts.
The first known corn maze was created in 1993 from an idea of producer Don Frantz as auxiliary project of the Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. It was designed by the maze designer Adrian Fisher and presented represents a Stegosaurus
Scary mazes
In the U.S. 2000 corn fields will be used as open-air horror mazes since. Here are scenes in a classic corn maze constructed in which most professional Scareactors ( " Erschrecker " ) trying to scare the visitors. 2007 was built in the British theme park Alton Towers is one of the first of these corn mazes as a horror attraction within the Scarefest. 2010 and 2011 was to find such an attraction even in the Horror Nights at Europa-Park Rust.
Also in 2007 was the first scary night instead of in a classic corn maze. In contrast to the horror attractions here an existing maze for one or more nights is converted. The first and largest event of its kind today is MaisMaze in Ditzinger corn maze near Stuttgart.
Examples
- Tulley 's Farm, Crawley, West Sussex, designed by Adrian Fisher annually as a horror attraction new.