Lose Yourself and then Find Yourself in Life Size Mazes
Mazes and Labyrinths have been around for thousands of years and are still thriving today. While labyrinths are often meant to help with spiritual enlightenment, mazes are usually designed to be a lot of fun and also to provide a strategic challenge.
The images below are certainly not meant to be an exhaustive list of mazes, just some of the oldest, largest, best known, or most unique…
Garden Mazes:
If you have a chance to travel to Oahu, make sure to stop by to visit the Dole Plantation Pineapple Garden Maze which reclaimed its World Record after having 36,800 square feet and 4,710 linear feet added to the original maze.
photo by cosmic_kid99's
Hampton Court Maze is possibly the most famous maze in the world. While Hampton Court Maze is not particularly difficult, it is one of the oldest surviving hedge maze still in operation.
The maze was originally part of a network of paths and labyrinths that made up William III’s ‘Wilderness Garden’, planted around 1690 by George London and Henry Wise. It covers a third of an acre and contains around half a mile of paths.
Longleat Hedge Maze
Made up of more than 16,000 English Yews, Longleat’s spectacular Hedge Maze was first laid out in 1975 by the designer Greg Bright. The Maze covers an area of around 1.48 acres with a total pathway length of 1.69 miles.
Wandiligong Maze is Australia’s largest living hedge maze with 2km of pathways, surrounded by gardens.
The Garden Maze is the largest garden maze in the Mid-Atlantic states – a one acre ornamental garden at Luray Caverns.
Fence Mazes:
Glacier Maze is a Fence Maze that can be found in Coram, Montana, right outside of Glacier National Park.
Cowtown Cattlepen Maze is 5,400 sq.ft. of frequently changed wooden pathways made to look like the cattlepens of the Old West.
Snow Mazes:
Bundle up and don’t take too long to find your way out!
photo by Vanessa Smith
Towering sides in a Snow Maze
photo by Nat - Photostream on Flkr
Corn Mazes:
At over 40 acres, Cool Patch Pumpkins holds the title for the largest corn maze in the world in the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records
Davis Mega Maze in Sterling, Massachusetts, has been a popular seasonal attraction since 1998. Davis’ Farmland, a seventh-generation family-owned farm, holds this unique maze that changes completely from year to year.
Really Unique Corn Mazes: See lots of crazy and fun mazes at: The Maize
