Mysterious Outdoor Adventure Returns to Hilliard, with a Few New Twists and Turns

Popular Maize Maze & Agri-Tainment Park Returns for the fourth season with a brand new design and the pumpkin patch is back.

Hilliard, Florida (PRWEB) September 17, 2006 -- With 8 acres of corn planted and their new mind-boggling design now created, the Conner family is bringing the “Maize craze” back to northeast Florida. The popular Hilliard labyrinth that drew thousands of visitors last fall, will once again get curious maze-goers lost when it opens to the public on Oct.7th . This year the design will be based on John 3:16. Part of an increasingly popular “agritainment” trend, it will be joined this year by more than 160 affiliated Maize sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.
   
The Conner family, in partnership with maze designer Brett Herbst – the world’s leading designer of 600+ corn mazes -- hope to give even more people a chance to experience the unique source of good farmin’ fun in their newly-designed labyrinth. Though the correct pathways can be walked in under 30 minutes, most directionally-challenged visitors – adults and children alike -- will require about one hour to travel through more than two miles of twists and turns and numerous decision points.

Conner’s A-Maize-Ing Acres will give visitors the chance to "get lost" Oct. 7th – November 11th, but through Nov. 30 to reservations only. Hours are Tuesday – Friday: – Reservations only, Friday eve. 5pm – 9pm, Saturday – Opening at 11am closing – 9pm. We are closed - Sunday & Monday. Field trip hours, during weekdays, are available by reservation. The maze and agri-tainment park is located west of Callahan on county road 121. Cost is $9 for ages 2-64: $7 for ages 65 and up, and free for kids 1 and under. Discounts are offered for families, groups and field trips. Our pumpkin patch will be open Sept. 30th –Oct. 31st, closed on Sunday and Monday. Hours are 11am-7pm. Our pumpkins, decorative gourds, Indian corn and other fall decorations come on consignment from a Navajo Indian reservation in New Mexico. They are all pre-priced and up to seventy five percent of the proceeds returns to them.

Media Invitation: Realizing that the only thing more intriguing than finding the way out of the human labyrinth is figuring out how it got there in the first place, local media are invited to come interview the creators and witness final preparations. Oct.5th at 12pm . Aerial photos will be supplied as well.

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