By Natalie Bazinet
Staff Writer
CARIBOU — Strap on your moon boots for a trek through Goughan’s Corn Maze rendition of the solar system during the grand opening on Aug. 21 starting at 8 a.m.
Contributed photo by Paul Cyr ©2010
While the actual distance from the sun to Pluto has been measured at 3,647,240,000 miles, it only takes about 45 minutes to traverse the 6-acre corn maze version of the solar system at Goughan’s Farm located at 875 Fort Fairfield Road in Caribou. The maze opens on Saturday.
With all the outer space-themed games available within the 6-acre maze, children of all ages my find a little education slipped into the entertainment right under their feet as the entire maze created solar system as both the planets and their orbits are accurately proportioned and distanced from each other.
Anyone who’s ever experienced a corn maze will tell the more the merrier, and the Goughan’s took that approach with Pluto. Demoted from the official list of planets, Pluto is still among the celestial bodies orbiting a 3,600 marigold sun.
There are a number of games to play in the maze for all ages; from knowledge-based games like Space Trivia that draws on television knowledge of Startrek, Lost in Space, the Jetsons and Jimmy Neutron, space based are you smarter than a third-grader questions, and finding all the planets while knowing which one is which to more hide-and-seek type games like finding Mary in space and finding the New Horizons spacecraft — which is located in the corn maze solar system just about exactly where it’s currently located in space.
It takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour to finish one of the games and the correct completion of one game is all participants need to win a free ice cream.
Admission is $7 and the maze is open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Additional information can be obtained by calling 498-6565.
