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2025 Corn Maze

Sever's Corn Maze-O

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Sever's Corn Maze
3121 W 150th St., Shakopee, MN 55379

Event Details

Overview

Come orienteer in the midwest's largest, most intricate corn maze! The Corn Maze-O event is a favorite event for young and olde, veterans and beginners. Stick around after running through the maze for a relay in the giant corn pit.

MNOC has exclusive use of Sever’s Corn Maze for this unique event. Sever's is open for regular business at 10:00 am, so encourage your family and friends to come early as participants or spectators for the Corn Maze-O, and then spend the rest of the day enjoying all of the activities  Sever’s has to offer. There is a giant slide, extreme corn pit, petting zoo, pig races, jumping pillows, pumpkin patch, magic show, a live polka band, and a great selection of fall food favorites!


Courses

There will be two courses: a longer course and a shorter course. The straw bale maze adjacent to the corn maze may also come into play, either as part of the long and short courses, or as a separate fun course.


Schedule

  • Check-In: 7:45 am

  • Race Start: 8:00 - 9:00 am

  • Course Closure: 9:30 am*

*Course  closes and ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST RETURN TO THE FINISH BY 9:30 am. It is  important that participants return on time. Always have some way to  know the time while you are out on the course.

The course will need to be disassembled starting at 9:30 am. This means we will have to stop all starts around 9 am.


Start Location

3121 W 150th St in Shakopee, MN 55379 - just 2 miles south of 169 & 41.

Visit Sever’s Fall Festival website for more info on Sever’s Corn Maze.


Volunteer

Many volunteers are needed! Use the Volunteer button at the top of this page. When you show up for your volunteer shift, please connect with the other MNOC volunteers so they know you have arrived. Thanks!

See task descriptions here.


Pricing

Cost is $22, which includes admission to Sever’s for the entire day! Children 3 and under are free. Pre-registration of ALL participants and spectators is REQUIRED; there will be no day-of registration. The deadline for registration is Thursday, October 2 11:59pm. All participants must pay for a ticket as it also gets you into Sever's Fall Festival. If  you are doing the course as a group, you will still need to buy a ticket for each participant as it is their ticket into Sever's Fall Festival as well.

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* We will collect payment at the main gate on Saturday morning. Payment by credit card is preferred.


Race Management

Setter: Molly Moilanen

Vetter: Justin Bakken

Race Director: 

Come Clean, Leave Clean

The Minnesota Orienteering Club practices a Come Clean, Leave Clean policy. This helps us maintain a good relationship with the parks we utilize, sets a good example for other users, and limits the transfer and spread of many of the plants that make our venues less enjoyable.

Race Results

Race results are usually published within 24 hours of the event. View our Race Results page to see the results.

Questions

If you have questions or comments about this event, please feel free to Contact Us.

Orienteering Etiquette

Here are a few tips to make orienteering enjoyable for all:

  • Stand Back: Move at least 5 meters away from check-points after you've punched. Doing so 1) allows other competitors easy access to punch, and 2) doesn't give away the control location to other competitors.

  • Seal the Lips: Do not shout to others in the woods. Especially avoid shouting "it's over here!" - that's not fair to others on the course who want to find the control themselves. So if you are in a group, stay within speaking distance.

  • Encourage Participation: If you are in a group with less skilled orienteers, let them navigate to every other control in order to practice their skills.

  • Don't Follow: Don't follow other orienteers on the course (except when specifically allowed in Minnegoats and other special events). Run your own course and refine your orienteering skills. Besides, they may be running a different course or may be making an error.

  • Keep It Clean: The park should be left in better condition than you found it. Be aware of, and cautious not to cause damage in, sensitive areas such as wet spots and steep slopes. Also, artifacts in the woods should be left as you found them, and don't damage trees or plants. And please do your part to pick up trash and leave the park cleaner than you found it.

  • Keep It Clean #2: Please avoid profanity and adult topics.  Small children are typically present at almost all MNOC meets. Help us create a fun and family-friendly environment enjoyable for all.

  • Share The Trails: Be courteous and respectful to other park users and be sure to yield right-of-way when on trails.  The city and state park departments are kind enough to let us hold events in their parks, so please help in retaining that valuable relationship.

  • Be Courteous: Please be nice to our volunteers. Everyone working at a meet is volunteering their time. Volunteers are often trying to do two or more things at once, so be patient.

  • Control Retrieval: If you can, please stick around until the event is done to help with control retrieval.  This simply entails going around the park and collecting the check-point flags that were used for the event. We like to have 6-8 volunteers help with this at the end of every event.

  • Volunteer: Orienteering events, along with the entire MNOC club, is run by volunteers.  We'd love for your help in running the events, so please sign up to be a volunteer if you have a few hours to spare. We'd greatly appreciate it.

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