Day 6: Milton Maize Maze...

Milton, West Virginia is about close as you can get to “hometown folk.” Home to the Milton Flea Market and the small bluegrass theater the Mountaineer Opry House, you can easily get a feel for the place. And that’s why I like Milton, I really do. Milton hosts these unique and sometimes strange attractions and you’d have to drive great lengths to find anything quite like it.

Come October, Milton is also the home of The Mazie…a HUGE maze that happens to be in a cornfield. Though it’s known at The Maize, I can’t help but to still call it the Milton Maize Maze. It just sounds so much better.

Now, a couple weekends in October, volunteers mark off some of the maze and they dawn costumes and props and the family-friendly Maize is instantly transformed into the Haunted Maize!! ::Insert spooky sound effect here::

Haunted walk-through tours are usually pretty good given the right setting. But I don’t know of any better place than in a cornfield. Just being in the middle of a cornfield in the pitch black is scary enough. And then when you throw in the element that people are waiting with chainsaws to scare you to the point you empty your bottom, then you’ve got a pretty creepy feeling, I promise you.


Once you start to walk through the Maize, your eyes just play tricks on you. It’s muddy as hell, so you have to watch your step, but you look to your left and right at the endless rows of stalks blocking your every view, and you know that there’s someone about to jump out at you…you just don’t know when or from where.

The best thing about the Maize is that it’s actually pretty long. You’ll be in the cornfield for a good 10-15 minutes, easy.

I totally recommend this. They have a stand with snacks, drinks, and even a campfire of two to help you keep warm. The air is cool, people are screaming, and you're in a big freakin cornfield. What's better than that?

Oh, and be sure to get yourself a coupon...it'll save you a buck.
http://www.cornfieldmaze.com/printcoupon.i?username=wvmilton