SoCal Girl Goes to the Halloween Harvest Festival

Two of my friends and I decided to go checkout the Halloween Harvest Festival at a nearby community college since none of us had ever been in a corn maze before and really wanted to experience the terror of being lost in the darkness, surrounded by nothing but corn rows (okay, that's kind of a lie - I wanted to experience the terror but didn't want to do it alone so I made them come with me).



Anyways, as I was looking for scary corn row mazes in Southern California (we don't exactly have a ton of farms lying around in LA so I was surprised we even had one), I came across this one at Pierce College, which was close enough and had great reviews. We went around 7:00 pm and ended up staying till 11:30, mostly because we were having so much fun but also because we may or may not have gotten lost in the corn maze for a while.







                             

The Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College has three different "scary" attractions and a regular old gigantic corn maze. We got the 3-Haunt Attraction Pass, which gave us access to Creatures of the Corn, The Factory of Nightmares, and Insane Reaction, and then bought a separate ticket just for the giant corn maze.

"Creatures of the Corn" was a mini corn-maze-themed attraction, where you walk through a path pre-carved through the corn rows while scary things jump out at you and follow you, cackling endlessly in your ear. For the last leg of the maze, we were chased out by a maniac with an electric chain saw, so that was fun.

Then we did the Factory of Nightmares, which was by far the scariest. At one point, you're surrounded by a thick fog and can't see anything, let alone the exit or anyone about to jump out at you. Last was Insane Reaction, which was essentially a maze inside of a mental asylum with mental patients out to get you.

We decided to take a short break before entering the giant corn maze and checked out the rest of the festival. There were a ton of kid-friendly activities and lots of pumpkins and hay stacks everywhere. Live music was playing in a corner and kids were running rampant, clutching frozen lemonades and hot dogs. We decided to get some funnel cake, and it was beyond delicious!

Around 10:00 pm, we headed into the corn maze, and were given a map, showing the 10 different points we were meant to reach and tick off. Within a few minutes of entering, we were completely surrounded by corn stalks on all sides and couldn't tell one direction from another. It was insanely cool and so much fun!

(The Map)

The Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College was so much fun and such a cool experience. I definitely want to go back again next year, and kidnap a little niece or nephew off mine to take along!