Warner Farm

Just went to the strawberry festival at Warner Farm. Folk music, go karts, pancakes, and multiple fields of strawberries to pick from.
Well be improvising strawberry recipes for the next couple days!

We were first timers at Mike’s Maze.
Our whole team was of adult age and we spent no time at the children related activities.
You are given a team number and a flag, I assume for rescue purposes.
You put a giant washer on a peg board to signify that your team is in the maze.
There a numerous games you may play while in the maze.
The nature of this particular maze provided large open areas that lessened the maze effect.
We spent a little over an hour to complete our game card.
We scored high and got sugar pumpkins as prizes.
We bantered with the kettle corn booth people as to our theories on how they created the maze.
Our favs were drones with flamethrowers and giant stencils held up by hot air balloons.
It was a fun time and very well run.
Parking was ample and directions were clear.

The corn maze is what drew me and the family here. It is a big maze with lots of fun for all mini games to play hidden throughout. We all enjoyed it very much. Then off to the «petting zoo» which is just a small fenced in area of goats, sheep and a llama. After that, if you want to do any of the other fun activities they offer, you have to pay an arm and a leg for everything. After spending $ 28 for 3 of us to do the maze, it was another $ 5 each to use the potato cannons, $ 4 each to go on a wagon ride around the farm $ 5 for a pony ride, $ 2 for a can of soda and $ 2 for one cone to feed to the goats. It was just too expensive to really enjoy it. Although it was nice and a beautiful ride up there, I doubt we will return.

Mike’s Maze is located in scenic Sunderland, MA… a combination aerially discernible image and corn maze is crafted here each season with the apparent running theme of ‘awesome’ — Mike’s has featured constructs from Albert Einstein to Julia Child… this year saw patrons getting delightedly turned around amid a reproduction of Odysseus and Polyphemus «An Odyssey in Corn»…
After a brief introduction (stay on the path, keep up with your kids, etc) you are given a fistful of tokens, a score-​sheet/​rough map and a tall colored flag (in case you have an inner ear problem and get fully lost) and are set loose into the field…
You then get to navigate your way through the maze, making your first decision as soon as you have taken a few steps inside… every so often you will stumble upon a mini-​game that you can buy into utilizing one of your tokens, once complete you will get an official check to your score-​sheet… should you complete all the games in one go there’s a special (not so special, mind you) prize for you at the end…
The mini-​games are as fun as they are variable… previous years have seen a tomato trebuchet, a potato cannon, a water puzzle, an archery event… the list goes on… all extremely silly good times…
At turns you’ll come across little kids excitedly arguing about which turn is the correct one, grandparents calling for their wards, hipsters moving quickly away from each other as they cease their extremely public display of affection at your arrival and even a few 50 something married couples in the same state… there’s just something about Warner Farm that brings out the happy in folk…
When you’ve gotten tired of getting lost, have chapped lips from canoodling or have mastered the maze you head back to the main tent and collect your goodies — different from year to year but they always manage to be keepsakes that elicit a smile…
In addition to the greatness of the maze pony and hay cart rides are on site for the kids beginning in October…
They are closed for the season in November… when you’re done with Mike’s head to Sugarloaf Frostee for a bite and get to the top of Sugarloaf itself… the maze is a sight to behold from that far above…
Go here and make delightful memories for you and yours…