There is a website called the MAiZE (themaize.com).  Where you may find most of the mazes in your area.  There is one in Poland, one in the UK, many in Canada and at least 100 in the USA.  However, keep your eyes open because many people are getting in the act!

So, check the weather and then go out and enjoy a fall day and evening in the outdoors with your family. It is big fun!  Make sure to check the weather, because most of the mazes do not operate in the rain.  Pack a jacket, bug spray and sunscreen (this is TEXAS).  Do not forget your camera.  I guarantee you will take at least one priceless picture of a loved one with hay in his/her hair!

Dewberry Farm is located west of Katy in Brookshire, Texas.  Open weekends September 25 to November 23 with 4-acre Corn Maze and 16-acre Pumpkin Patch, not to mention rubber duck races, pig races, petting zoo, pony rides, zip lines and pedal cars.  Shoot a pumpkin and corn cannons.

Fiddlesticks Farms is on the east side of Midland off  I-20.  Look for the big red barn on the south side of County Road 120. Play in the cornfield maze or take a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick your own pumpkin. Visit the Learning Barn and see baby farm animals, live milking demonstration, and get the feeling of real farm life.  Jump on the hay pile, slide down the tube slide or potato sack slide.  The pumpkin blaster and cow train are just a few more places to have big fun.

Kaska Family Farm, 15893 County Line Road North, West, TX, is open Saturday, September 25 through Sunday, October  31. Enjoy the corn maze, a corn (not sand)  box, shoot the corn cannon.  Take a hayride, walk the haunted trail (10 and older),  attack a hump of hay or bounce in the jump house.  Food is available as well.

Rocky Creek Maze is located at the  Chaloupka Farm, 784 County Road 251,- Moulton, TX. The farm opens to the public on October 1 and closes November 27.  Features  are corn canon, hay rides, hay jump, barrel train ride, frog hopper, pumpkins, butterfly garden, family slide, mini maze and duck races.  The haunted maze, s seven acres of corn with carved pathways creating a giant puzzle, opens on October 15 and is then open Fridays and Saturdays through October 30 and Sunday, October 31.

South Texas MAiZE is located on US Highway 90 East in  Hondo, TX on the Graff Family Farm.  The maize is a 7-acre labyrinth of twists, turns, and dead ends carved into stalks over your head. There is a huge trampoline called the corn popper and a barrel train for the children. Slide down the tube slide or watch the Boer goats manage the two-story goat walk. There is a separate area, complete with swings, slide,  hay pyramid and tractor, for the little folk.  For something different (and $$), rent a campfire with table and hay bales for four hours.  The family starts and maintains the fire.  You may bring your own food to cook over the fire or reserve a hot dog and marshmallow package ($$).

RV Road Trip Idea

International Bowling Museum

and Hall of Fame

621 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, Texas

Want to bowl all strikes this summer with your favorite-bowling buddies?  Take an RV road trip to the new International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame in Arlington, TX.  The sport’s new “International Bowling Campus” combines the Museum, Hall of Fame and a world-class research and training center that is sure to captivate any bowling fan.  Here is how to bowl a perfect game on your RV camping trip to Arlington.

Where to Go: The new location of bowling’s Holy Grail is almost as interesting as the attraction itself.  The museum, once housed in St. Louis, MO, has become part of a complex that will include the training center for the USA and Junior USA Teams and the headquarters of the USBC, BPAA and other international bowling organizations.

Moving the Museum to the Dallas metro area also affords visitors a chance to visit Six Flags over Texas, adjacent to the Bowling Campus, as well as take in a Dallas Cowboys or Texas Rangers game at their nearby stadiums.  Set your GPS for 621 Six Flags Drive in Arlington; you will find more than enough to do once you are there.

What to Do: Need more detail on what is going on at the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame? The question just might be “What isn’t going on there?”  Inside the Museum, you will find interactive exhibits that explore the ancient roots of bowling, the sponsors that have propelled the sport’s growth and the technology that is fine-tuning this international sport.

Ten-pin addicts should find the Olympic training center fascinating, with its computer-assisted coaching techniques and a glimpse of the future of bowling,  If your RV camping crew includes kids, bowl them over with a trip to “Bowlopolis”, where they can test their skills in a kid-friendly setting.

As if that was not enough, the Bowling Hall of Fame also celebrates the greats throughout bowling’s history.  Every sanctioning body for the sport has champions featured in the Hall of Fame—their stars represent PBA, PWBA, USBC, BPAA and even the World Bowling Writers organization here.

Before leaving the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, be sure to stop by their gift shop.  It is amazing what you can take home that will announce your love of bowling!  Make your RV camping trip to the Museum perfect by scheduling a special event there.  The facility can accommodate parties for nearly every occasion, so why not call your fellow RV owners and arrange a group trip to the museum for a special event?

Where to Stay: The essential element in all this trip planning is the perfect RV campground.  Arlington.org has created a helpful online listing of RV campgrounds close to the Bowling Museum.  Traders Village RV Park, adjacent to one of the largest flea markets in Texas.

Even if you have never bowled a lane, there is much to fascinate at the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame in Arlington, Texas.  Avid bowlers, however, will not want to leave once they enter this Dallas-area shrine to their sport.  So are you ready for an RV road trip?  Suggest this excursion at your next league night; it might just become an annual pilgrimage!

About the Author

Joe Laing is the Marketing Director for El Monte RV Rentals. For other great RV camping vacation ideas see Monty’s Musings RV Camping Blog or the new Monty’s RV Vacation Photo / Picture Gallery.