KANSAS CITY, Mo. — While this destination is outside of the Kansas City metro, you'll still technically be in Chiefs Kingdom.
“This year with the Super Bowl, we were like, oh, we have to do something special there, so Chiefs Kingdom came to mind," said Jay Schwinn, manager of Walter's Pumpkin Patch.
Hop in your car and take a trip two and a half hours outside of town, and you'll find five acres of fandom.
“If you get over five acres, people get bored with it and then are cutting through it to get out," said Becky Walters, owner of Walter's Pumpkin Patch.
At Walter's Pumpkin Patch in El Dorado, Kansas, take a break from navigating 2020 and get lost in a corn maze. Your only other option is to stick to the right path and come out the other side.
“It depends how many wrong turns they take, so I can’t give you a set time," Walters said.
For 10 years, Walter's Pumpkin Patch has been designing corn mazes for the fall season.
“When we first started out, we tried to cut it ourselves and that was just craziness," Walters said.
As the designs have changed, so has the technology that has created them. In one day, the Chiefs Kingdom corn maze was built by Rob Stouffer with Precision Mazes out of Lee's Summit.
“It’s all GPS-driven so technology has really sped the process up of course, so once we give him the acreage and the layout from the topical graphic map to show him how the field lays and everything, he actually has it all loaded up when he gets here," Schwinn said. "He just knows, basically it just guides him and tells him where to go into the field and tells him what to cut and what not to cut."
As the Kansas City Chiefs look to run it back, finding another Chiefs-inspired maze for next year could be on the horizon.
The maze will open to fans on Sept. 19.
