MazeScoutYour guide to outdoor fun
Plan corn mazes, pumpkin patches, orchards, hayrides, and night mazes around Chicagoland and northern Illinois.
Tanner's Orchard is a fourth-generation family apple orchard near Speer with over 11,000 trees. Beyond u-pick apples and pumpkins, the farm offers a seasonal sunflower field, a corn maze, wagon rides to the orchard, and the Back 40 Fun Acres area with farm animals. A farm market and bakery sell cider donuts and other baked goods, and leashed dogs are welcome for a $10 fee.
Kane Family Farms is a newer family farm attraction near Ottawa, Illinois (opened 2022), with two corn mazes of different difficulty, a u-pick pumpkin and sunflower field, hayrack rides, and a petting zoo. It operates Thursday through Sunday each fall with per-person wristband admission covering all activities.
Rader Family Farms in Normal opens its 2026 season on September 4 with a Route 66-themed twelve-acre corn maze and opening-night drone show. The farm also offers pumpkin picking, hayrides, sunflowers, animals and three flashlight-maze nights included with season passes.
Richardson Adventure Farm is a seasonal attraction in Spring Grove, Illinois featuring large maze, u pick pumpkins, and wagon rides.
Parkside Farm Stand is a family farm stand in Gilman, Illinois (Iroquois County), established in 2015. In fall it offers a you-pick pumpkin patch with specialty varieties, a sunflower field for photos, and a soybean maze with hidden spooky characters.
Families visit L&A Family Farms in Paris, Illinois for eleven acre sunflower maze, corn maze, and pumpkin patch.