Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch & Liberty Corn Maze 2012

Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch & Liberty Corn Maze are some our favorite fall traditions! Every fall, we visit our Favorite Pumpkin Patches! With a commitment to offer an educational experience, introducing children and families to agriculture through animals, hands-on exhibits, and a REAL pumpkin patch and corn maze, this is one fall must for your bucket list!

Tips Before Your Visit:

• Read the Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch & Liberty Corn Maze listing for complete details, hours, pricing, and map!
• Plan to spend half a day if you enjoy all the play areas, animals, train ride, hay ride to find a perfect pumpkin and visit the maze. Consider a Season Pass to visit more than once! (Season passes included Parents, Grandparents, and children in the same home!).
• Read our Pumpkin Patch tips for what to bring, what to wear, and more!
• They offer group tours and discounts if you lead a school group, play group, or church group! 
• Be sure to try Pumpkin Donuts! They are addictively delicious!
• Carolyn's offers LOTS of great photo ops... dress for fun! The GIANT Rocking Chair (shown right) is our family fave!

Some of our Favorite Things about Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch:

• The trip is less than an hour from most locations in the metro... with one of the nicest pumpkin patches and our favorite corn maze in the metro, it's worth the trip!
• As a working farm, you'll find educational information throughout the site! The Carolyn's team is committed to providing an educational experience for guests and sharing their passion for agricultural careers. Handpainted signs offer great tips, lessons, and vocabulary to learn more about the plants and animals on the farm, making the trip fun and educational. They even offer a NEW Smart Phone Scavenger Hunt... bring your smart phone and scan the QR Codes on site to unravel a puzzle. 
• The pumpkins are ON the vine! At some patches, you will find pumpkins in fields already detached from the vine (some grown on the property, some purchased from outside sources) - it is great to visit a real pumpkin patch and pick that perfect pumpkin! They also sell a wide variety of pumpkins in the store - in every shape, size, and color imagineable! 
• The shop offers a great variety of fall goodies and decor - our fave is the Build Your Own Scarecrow kits (outfits and straw to make your own). Concessions are offered throughout including delicous homemade baked goods and quality burgers, brats, and hot dogs. 
• They offer many different play areas for the kids, including a GIANT Tunnel Slide (my girls' fave), kids' corn maze, straw maze, fort, fossil dig, many swings and jungle gyms, a trike path, petting zoo, and more.
• Entertainment includes Uncle Lester's Pig Races, the Pumpkin Princess, and live shows on some weekends.
• The Liberty Corn Maze is a separate attraction (next door to Carolyn's) - it is even open at night for as a great outing for teens and families! The Maze offers 4 paths varying in lengths - you may choose to do one or all paths and collect punches on a card for completion as you go. We love the overlook bridges offering a birds eye view of the maze at various stations throughout. The maze is bumpy  - plan to go on foot with sturdy shoes.

Fun at Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch & Liberty Corn Maze:

Some of the Pumpkins You may purchase in the Shop

One of the MANY displays you'll find throughout!

Goat Climb and Stage

Pumpkin Shop

Stage - Live Entertainment offered for Events or children play on the stage

A Tradition to see "How Tall This Fall?"

Playing with Corn

Just ONE of many educational signs in the Petting Zoo (feed may be purchased for 25cents from machines or $1/bag at the shops)

Feeding a Calf

Feeding a Goat

Goats

Slide exiting the Petting Zoo

Trike Track - a Fave!

Bunny Village

Play Fort and Tea Parties

Brielle's Favorite: Winnie the Pooh (you'll find MANY favorite characters throughout)

Learn to Lasso

The Horse Tire Swings - another fave!

Another fun Photo Op (You will find LOTS of Great Photo Boards with many fave Characters!!)

The Kids Corn Maze (included with Admission)

Play Areas - Notice the TALL Blue Slide in the background - the tunnel slide is a FAVORITE!

More Play Areas - sand play

Tractor Carousel (tickets sold separetly)

Swing and Climb (this is close to the Rubber Duck Races - sorry, no photo of the duck races!)

Sound Garden

Little Bud's Railroad - the Only TRAIN on a track at a local Pumpkin Patch (tickets sold separately)

Little Bud's Train

You MUST try the Pumpkin Donuts! (.75/1, $3.75/6, $7.50/12)

Picking the Perfect Pumpkin in a REAL Pumpkin Patch!

Liberty Corn Maze:

The Liberty Corn Maze is next to Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch. Admission to the Maze is Adult/$10, Children/ $8.00 for 13-5 years; Free/ 4 and under years. This is a great adventure for the whole family (especially older kids and teens!). "The Liberty Corn Maze is comprised of a 50 inch wide trail cut out of a farmer's field of corn into an elaborate design. Using Global Positioning Satellite (GPS), the maze is cut with pin-point accuracy allowing an aerial viewer to see intricacies of the images and letters in the maze. We have added bridges for additional excitement. Throughout the maze we have several bridges that take you up and on top of the corn. You will get a birds-eye view of the maze, and if you are lost it will allow you to form a new strategy to get out or further into the maze. There are five individual mazes with in one Liberty Corn Maze. When you enter the maze we will equip you with a map and a punch card. Within each individual maze there are 6 check points with a unique hole punch at each check point. We challenge you to become a Maize Master and get all 6 punches in each maze you go through."

The Memories:

We visit Carolyn's Country Cousins and the Liberty Corn Maze every year. Our oldest daughter LOVES to navigate through the maze and we love the fun and educational outing!