Corn Mazes
When you're lost at the Calgary Corn Maze, you're not just wandering around aimlessly... We have lots of activities to help you through. In addition to our finger find stations, you can now use our in maze trivia, games, and hidden image picture stations to find your way out of the largest and most interactive puzzle in Southern Alberta. Each year, is a new design and a new challenge.
Our larger corn maze is 10+ acres in size (about the size of ten football fields), with the corn reaching a peak height of 11 feet. It consists of two phases, each which takes 30 to 60 minutes to complete depending how fast you go and how many wrong turns you make. If you try to find all stations hidden in the maze you can fully expect to be in the maze at least another 40 minutes (most guests that try spend over 2.5 hours searching for them).
Night time maze navigation takes a little longer and adds another exciting dimension to maze exploration. The quickest route if you absolutely made no wrong turns (which has never happened yet) will take approximately 45 minutes per phase.
For visitors that would like a taste of the corn maze, but not the whole thing, we have a smaller 3-acre maze that takes approximately 20 minutes to find the 5 hidden stations and complete the maze.
The corn typically reaches its peak height in mid to late August. In a typical growing year, the typical lifecycle of the corn is as follows:
- Late-July: Corn reaches 6 feet and above.
- Mid August: Corn reaches 8 feet and above.
- Early-September or when the first hard frost occurs: Corn begins changing from green to fall yellow, and plant height and density begins to reduce.
- Late-September to early-October: Corn is full yellow in color. Height of the field is dependent on weather (wind, snow, etc.)
- Mid-late October: The corn is harvested before the snow settles in for the winter.
When the corn reaches 5 feet and above, it it tall enough that people can no longer determine which path to take next although they may be able to see over the tops of the corn.
