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Corn mazes in New Hampshire are a fall mainstay! It’s no secret that New Hampshire is one of the best places in the world to celebrate autumn and all its activities. New Hampshire is full of family-friendly fall activities like apple picking, fall festivals, haunted houses, pumpkin patches, and scenic drives through the most beautiful fall foliage you’ve ever seen. There’s no better place to pass the Halloween season and the rest of fall.
Kids and adults alike treasure the memories they make at these New England farms and orchards. There’s something special about selecting your own pumpkin where it’s growing in the pumpkin patch, especially if you’re a kid. Finding the perfect pumpkin takes time! And once you’ve found it, it’s time to hit up a New Hampshire corn maze!
Farms and orchards across New Hampshire are preparing their special fall offerings, from Halloween events like haunted houses, haunted corn mazes and flashlight ghost tours, to more seasonally aimed events like apple picking, petting zoos with real, gentle farm animals, and delicious food like the apple cider donuts you’ve been waiting all year to taste again.
Keep reading to see some of the best corn mazes found in New Hampshire and more great things to do in New Hampshire in the fall! Note that some of these places are local farms that are only open weekends and many are just open through the end of October, so be sure to check their calendar before heading over.
Brookdale Fruit Farm
41 Broad St., Hollis, NH 03049
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Beautifully and spookily decorated around Halloween, Brookdale Fruit Farm’s seasonal activities, including its corn maze and hayrides, are customer favorites year after year. Considered a local treasure, Hollis-area families make memories out of the tradition of visiting the farm for its corn maze and other offerings.
Brookdale Fruit Farm has been family-owned and operated for 175 years. Offering pick-your-own apples, a variety of berries, and pumpkins, the farm has customers visiting to find the finest fresh fruit from June to October, though the farm is open year round for its other offerings.
An ice cream stand, greenhouse flowers and vegetable plants, and the “farm stand,” a sizable farm store, which offers a huge variety of New Hampshire made items, raw honey, maple syrup, breads, desserts, pastas, and much more, keep customers coming back all year.
Riverview Farm
141 River Road, Plainfield, NH 03781
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The corn maze at Riverview Farm in Plainfield has a brilliant mind behind its story, twists, and turns. Emily Zea, who designs the maze every year, earned a bachelor’s in communication arts illustration, and just finished a master’s degree in sequential imaging. 2021’s theme was Monsters of New England, with tales of New England cryptids and old wives’ tales.
Customers say the corn maze is spooky fun for the whole family. Google reviews praise the farm as “toddler heaven,” thanks to its plentiful climbable tractors and not-too-spooky Halloween options.
The Franklin family has operated this picturesque farm along the Connecticut River for the last 30 years. In addition to the corn maze, the Riverview Farm boasts more than 1,600 apple trees and acres of blueberries, raspberries, and pumpkins for pick-your-own fun. The Franklin family also makes its own apple cider.
Collins Farm Corn Maze and Adventure Trail
US-302, Bath, NH 03740
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Collins Farm Corn Maze operates from Aug. 6 to Oct. 30 and has been previously named the number one corn maze in New Hampshire. With 13 acres of maze and trivia questions throughout, there’s a lot to learn at this site. It’s likely to be a popular destination this fall, as owner Corey Collins recently went viral on TikTok with a short aerial video showing him creating this year’s pirate-themed corn maze with his trusty John Deere tractor.
Those who have attended in the past said the Collins Farm Maze is fun, challenging, and educational for all. Collins Farm also operates an adventure trail, flashlight maze and haunted maze. The night-time flashlight maze and haunted maze also include checkpoints and trivia to learn and collect along the way.
Customers say Collins Farm, in addition to its entertaining mazes and trails, has beautiful hanging plants and excellent customer service.
Beans & Greens Farm
245 Intervale Road, Gilford, NH
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For more than 15 years, Beans & Greens Farm in Gilford has offered what it says is one of the most difficult corn mazes in New Hampshire. The maze, which covers multiple acres of cornfield, includes miles of turns, dead ends, loops, open squares, and bridges, according to their website.
In addition to the annual corn maze, Beans & Greens Farm offers a Family Farm Fun Day, a Harvest Festival, fairy house and gnome home building, Kids’ Day on the Farm, field trips, and birthday parties. The farmstand, in addition to fresh veggies and fruits, offers a bakery, locally produced meats, and a deli using farm ingredients.
Beans & Greens was founded by Andy and Martina Howe, local dairy farmers from Gilford. They were the proprietors for more than 30 years, and in 2021 passed the torch to the new owner, Chris Collias. The farm’s aim is to provide as much high quality, locally produced food and fun as possible.
Beech Hill Farm
107 Beech Hill Road, Hopkinton, New Hampshire 03229
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Beech Hill Farm boasts two award-winning corn mazes. Last year, the farm celebrated its 250th anniversary with one maze and created a mystery maze with the second. The twist on the game Clue was based on a real crime that has never been solved.
Beech Hill Farm is famous for its ice cream barn, which offers some 75 flavors of New England-made ice creams, yogurts, sherbets, sorbets, and sugar-free or fat-free varieties. Visitors also come to the farm for the Gardener’s Barn and Potting Shed as well as purchasing fall favorites like mums, pumpkins, and corn stalks.
A ninth-generation farm, Beech Hill Farm has been recognized as a New Hampshire Farm of Distinction. Robert Kimball and his wife Donna own the farm and live in the Kimball homestead built in 1800. Following a lifelong dream, they have worked together to diversify the family farm in an effort to preserve the heritage and integrity of one of the longest-running family owned and operated farms in the United States.
Emery Farm
147 Piscataqua Road, Durham, NH 03824
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Emery Farm, established in 1660, offers a 20-minute corn maze with educational stations hidden throughout. No reservations are needed for this seasonal activity. In addition to the corn maze, Emery Farm holds tractor-drawn wagon rides, field trips, and classic fall farm activities, including donuts and cider at the cafe, a petting zoo and more.
The farm has a year-round garden center, where they grow and sell annuals and perennials, herb and vegetable starters, bushes and shrubs, and hanging baskets. They have pick-your-own blueberries as well. They also offer seasonal items including corn stalks, pumpkins and gourds, holiday wreaths, and Christmas trees.
Emery Farm is said to be the oldest family farm in the United States, having been in the same family since 1660. They aim to keep it a working farm for generations to come, and have started a regenerative agriculture program to preserve agriculture and serve the community.
Sherman Farm
2679 East Conway Rd., Center Conway, NH 03813
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“The Maize at Sherman Farm” has been rated one of the best corn mazes in New England by Yankee Magazine and was WMUR Viewers’ Choice for Best Corn Maze in New Hampshire for 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. The maze includes 12 acres of twists and turns, as well as a treasure hunt and a series of corny riddles.
Admission to The Maize includes a number of activities for little ones, including corn boxes (like sand boxes, but with corn); a petting area, a Mini Maize, a play area, and a pumpkin-shaped bounce pad. It also includes access to a pay-by-weight pumpkin patch.
Sherman Farm was established in 1964 by Al Sherman. It is a family farm with produce, livestock, an ice cream barn, and sunflower fields, among other features. It was one of the first farms in New Hampshire to create a corn maze.
Trombly Gardens
150 North River Road, Milford, NH 03055
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Trombly Gardens offers a daytime corn maze during its autumn months, but the farm also offers a night-time maze during the popular Milford Pumpkin Festival. The farm also has hay rides, fun events, farm animal visits, and a “pick your own pumpkin” station as well as a pumpkin patch.
Among their offerings are seasonal berry picking and an ice cream stand. Customers praise their ice cream flavors and say Trombly Gardens is a hidden gem.
Trombly Gardens is a third-generation family business. Initially known as Sunny Prairie Farm, it began in 1950 with 4 cows and 500 chickens and grew into a 400-cow dairy. In 2000, it transitioned to produce and cattle, with a seasonal farm stand and greenhouses, and in 2019 its new year-round farm stand was built.
Moulton Farm
18 Quarry Road, Meredith, NH 03253
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Moulton Farm’s 20th annual corn maze opens in September. Hand-drawn and carved out of feed corn fields using trimmers and later a tractor, the maze takes months to plan and execute.
Moulton Farm also offers pick-your-own pumpkins, corn stalks, mums, asters and more in its garden center. The farm bakery makes seasonal treats like pies and whoopie pies, while the farm’s kitchen offers soups, entrees, quiches, meat pies and side dishes. The Cider Bellies stand offers freshly made donuts. Yankee Magazine declared Moulton Farm’s whoopie pies the best in New England.
Located at the north end of Lake Winnipesaukee, Moulton Farm was established in the 1890s. The farm is open year round.
Coppal House Farm
118 North River Rd (RT 155) Lee, NH 03861
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The Coppal House Farm corn maze is planted and harvested using Belgian Draft Horses. Mailboxes with trivia questions can help or hinder the maze participants. The maze is in a different location and has a different theme every year. In addition to the maze, the farm boasts horse-drawn rides, a Sunflower Festival and a youth farm camp.
The farm also offers pumpkins, fall decorations, winter squashes, meat, eggs, and cooking oil in its farm store. The farm itself has been in existence since the 1740s.
John and Carol Hutton named their 78-acre farm Coppal House Farm for “coppal,” the Gaelic word for horse, because they knew they would always use Belgian Draft Horses in their farming efforts. They held their first corn maze in the fall of 2005, with only a table and an umbrella as a booth. Coppal House now boasts a diverse farm, a six-acre corn maze, and a sunflower festival.
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