Exploration Acres

There’s more than corn in Indiana…
Yes. Indiana. We are the CORN state indeed. Drive through, it’s no joke. However, this means we have the BEST corn mazes! Exploration Acres is the best I have even seen. Each year they plow maze into acres upon acres of tall corn and make a theme and photo to follow. This year the 5 mazes were a USA them. I personally think the Mount Rushmore maze was incredible. It was hard! The open space in the faces made you really have to pay attention. It was like I am in an eyebrow, or that strip is the lip, turn right! Oh no, it wasn’t the lip, it was the mustache… Turn around! Fun! There are 8 miles of maze total in 5 crafty carved mazes. See my photos for the overlay.
The neat thing is how they have evolved over the years. There have always been punch stop stations to make your landmarks and success for fun. Now, each station has a specific puncher. the cards are perforated local businesses that are promoting and donating coupon value to the family that runs this fine maze on their farm. It costs $ 10 for as much play time as you’d like in the corn mazes. Then, the 28 available punch stops are many thinks I actually use! 20% off at Pink Walrus frozen yogurt. 20 free arcade game tokens for up to 6 people on the one coupon with a purchase of a round of indoor mini golf. It’s like $ 5-​$ 7 with or without a student ID and when you go once they ask who won… then the employee hands the loser a «buy one get one free card» for next time. The card states, «Buy one get one free. You need practice!»…or something like that. So it’s like Even less when you combine coupons. Dairy Queen, buy one blizzard, get one free. Linda Mexico, free appetizer with entrée purchase. The corn maze alone is fun, but now they have evolved into coupon punches along the way. The website lists the rewards. You must stop at the correct marker though. Each has it’s own «symbol» punch. Ex: heart, star, small dot, oval, jalapeño punch, diamond, and many many more. The coupons are only valid once punched. The $ 10 for unlimited hours of fun (just until they close) is plenty enough fun. However with the rewards, I got my ten dollars back in coupon value after a visit there in one single day/​evening. Way to make a day full of fun!
They also host a pumpkin patch so you you pick your very own pumpkin and then purchase it by weight. There are wagons so you and any kiddos if you have them can pull them around. There is also a pumpkin Nascar race this year! I didn’t see anyone use it but it was like our Indianapolis 500! See, more than corn in Indiana. We have gem stones in the corn when you read reviews and seek local businesses! LOL.
Lastly, I can’t forget to tell you about the hayride that is fully included to take you out to the corn mazes, pumpkin patch, or wherever. However, its honestly not that far and you certainly can walk… but who wouldn’t want a free fun hay ride?! There is 8 miles of corn maze available for exercise. Enjoy the hay ride!
This place is awesome and I went three times this season alone. The rewards are such a bonus perk, but I love the maze fun! They even added a children’s maze game this this of «clue» of some sort. «Who hurt Farmer Joe?» — it’s for KIDS. LOL. But yes, I clearly am kid free and played myself. FUN! You look at the pictures and punch a kids card. A stop has your coupon punch AND a kids photo for their card game. They must punch card the animal, weapon, and location. Ex: Chickens with Rope in a Barn. It wasn’t them!!! 6 stops on the capital rotunda Maze as I remember and 7 available suspects for the kids game. Just a little extra fun. Kids like to look at pictures, and solve puzzles by playing the «game» it was. Very cool and super updated over the years. There just aren’t other corn mazes like this around! Come to the corn state to a real farmers corn field to learn the finest mazes available! There is more than corn in Indiana! But, we will keep our corn and fun for adventure and bragging rights! I clearly recommend this place. I return annually and have made multiple visits this past season. I can’t wait to see what theme they carve next year!!!

Great pumpkin patch, corn maze, hay rides and fall fun! They also have a little shop with some delicious hot cider and apple dumplings you will not want to miss out on. This is my third year coming and every year it just gets better! Lots of activities for the kids too.

Yesterday was my first time to a corn maze. I went with a group of friends which made it fun and a few made it scary. See about coupons.
The trails via map or by chance led to signs and special hole punches in order to get discounts at Lafayette area stores. It was just fun to have a goal to reach than just walking through field of 8′ corn stalks. There were many designs of the maze which I heard changes yearly. One of the guys in my group figured out the map and we empowered him to begin leading the way. It was sometimes muddy so I recommend not to wear white walking shoes and bring a handy flashlight.
There were booths for other foods like hot cider and hot chocolate (in the center /​beginning of the maze), funnel cake (I think), water, and Gatorade.
They have porta potties only near the entry so go before.
At the end, we got to a campfire to warm up and make S’mores. There are a hay tunnel, hay pile, and hayrides available to enjoy.