A straightforward $8 family corn maze in the Laurel Highlands with free parking and no scare element - but it is cash only, and that is the thing that ruins visits here.
General admission $8.00; children 3 and under free but must be accompanied by an adult. CASH ONLY - no cards accepted. Parking is free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $32.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
Chad’s does one thing. There is a 3.5-acre corn maze with roughly a mile and a half of paths, a pumpkin patch, and a car park you do not pay for. No slides, no jumping pillows, no ride wristband, no petting zoo. For a certain kind of family that is the appeal: $8 buys the whole visit, and there is nothing inside to be asked for.
Take cash. This is the most common way a visit here goes wrong, and it is entirely avoidable. Admission is $8 a person with no card facility at the gate, on a rural stretch of Route 711 where the nearest machine is not obviously around the corner. Two adults and two paying children is $32; add a margin for pumpkins, whose prices are not published anywhere we could read. Draw out more than you think you need before you leave.
What separates Chad’s from a plain field walk is the coin-collection layout. Wooden coins sit at hidden stations along the route, and finding them is the point of the exercise, which reliably turns a twenty-minute crossing into an hour or more. That structure is what makes the $8 defensible for older children, who would otherwise be through and out well inside half an hour.
The design changes annually. The owner cuts a new one each year with GPS, themed on the imagery of a country song, so a return visit is not the same maze. That matters more than it sounds for local families deciding whether a second trip in the same October is worth the money.
It is also, explicitly and at every hour, not a haunt. Plenty of Pennsylvania mazes flip into a scare attraction after dark, and parents of nervous seven-year-olds spend October working out which ones. Chad’s does not. The Friday and Saturday late nights to 9pm are the same family maze in the dark.
Two schedules run here. Sunday through Thursday closes at 7:00pm, Friday and Saturday at 9:00pm, and last entry is an hour before close on every one of those days. That hour is where the mistakes happen: rolling up at 6:30pm midweek gets you turned away with the lights still on.
The weekday evenings are the value play. Same maze, same $8, a fraction of the traffic. Weekend nights are when the Laurel Highlands crowd arrives after dinner, and they are also when a headlamp stops being optional. By the second half of October it is fully dark long before 9pm, and phone torches drain fast in the cold.
No 2026 season dates. A directory listing describes a pumpkin patch open daily through October from 11am to dusk, but that source is out of date for other farms in the same region, so we have not treated it as fact. Nor is there any published information on parking surface, restrooms, food or accessibility. Given the operation’s size, assume it is minimal and plan accordingly - eat first, and use facilities before you arrive.
The practical summary: bring cash, come on a weekday if you can, bring a light if you are coming late, and treat the $8 as close to the full cost of the outing rather than as a starting figure.
Sunday through Thursday 11:00am to 7:00pm with last entry at 6:00pm, and Friday and Saturday 11:00am to 9:00pm with last entry at 8:00pm. Weekday evenings are the sweet spot: the same maze, far fewer people. The two late nights are the only chance to walk it properly in the dark, which by mid-October starts well before the 9pm close. The farm had not published 2026 opening or closing dates when we last checked.
One to two hours. About 1.5 miles of paths across 3.5 acres, and the wooden coin stations are designed to slow you down rather than let you beeline for the exit. Allow the longer end if you have children who want to find every one.
The pressure points are Friday and Saturday evenings, which run two hours later than the rest of the week and pull in the after-dinner crowd. Sunday to Thursday the same maze is genuinely quiet. Last entry is an hour before close every day, so arriving at 6:30pm on a Wednesday means arriving too late.
Free, which the farm states explicitly. Surface is not published; assume farm ground rather than asphalt, and expect it to hold water after the rain that defines a western Pennsylvania October.
Not published. A cut corn maze is uneven, rutted ground by definition and can be muddy in the middle of the season, so it is a poor bet for wheels or unsteady footing. Ring ahead on 724-238-9066 if that matters.
You do not carry cash. The maze takes no cards at all. Skip it too if you want a full farm park with animals, slides and food stalls - this is a maze operation with a pumpkin patch, not a fall festival - or if your children are small enough that a mile and a half of uneven corn rows becomes a carry.
Ligonier sits in the Laurel Highlands, where peak leaf colour and peak maze season overlap, so the Route 711 corridor carries heavy scenic traffic on October weekends. Because the maze itself takes under two hours, it works better as half a day out with a meal in town than as the whole trip.
General admission is $8.00. Children 3 and under are free but must be accompanied by an adult. Parking is free. The maze is cash only and does not accept cards.
Sunday through Thursday it runs 11:00am to 7:00pm and Friday and Saturday 11:00am to 9:00pm. Last entry is an hour before closing in both cases, so 6:00pm and 8:00pm respectively.
No. Chad's is a family-friendly maze at every hour it is open, with no haunt element. If you want to be frightened in a Westmoreland County cornfield, this is not the place.
A pumpkin patch, and the coin-collection game inside the maze itself - wooden coins hidden at stations along the route. This is a single-attraction operation rather than a farm park, which is part of why it is cheap.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Open daily during the season (Sunday-Thursday and Friday-Saturday hours differ). Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $8 per person. General admission $8.00; children 3 and under free but must be accompanied by an adult. CASH ONLY - no cards accepted. Parking is free.
2973 State Route 711, Ligonier, PA 15658, in Westmoreland County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Laurel Highlands.
We track 3 patches in Laurel Highlands. At $8 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $8.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 3 patches we track in Laurel Highlands had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in Westmoreland County. All Laurel Highlands patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
chadscornmaze.com · pahauntedhouses.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.