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Inside the making of a world-class corn maze

Andrew Paul

created: Oct. 13, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Oct. 23, 2025, 12:47 p.m.

After a 22-year career in industrial trade show designing, Fitzgerald has since spent nearly that long overseeing “northwest Indiana’s largest corn maze,” Exploration Acres. By the time Fourth of July fireworks are shimmering overhead, Exploration Acres’ corn is inching towards your waist. Just as farming has modernized over time, so has the process that goes into preparing a corn maze. Remember that Netflix-approved Stranger Things corn maze in 2018? There is, however, at least one detail you can count on at Exploration Acres’ gigantic corn mazes.

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