A puzzle corn maze rather than a walk-through, with a genuinely good non-date-specific ticket policy, but the farm publishes no price on its own site and the last day-maze entry is 3:30pm - much earlier than the 5pm closing time suggests.
Rural Hill does not publish maze ticket prices on its own website; tickets are sold online and are not date-specific. Charlotte On The Cheap listed $16 adult / $13 child for the day maze and $20 adult / $17 child for the night maze in the prior (2025) season - treat those as indicative only. A special ticketed event on October 25 is listed at $30.
The word to hold on to here is puzzle. Most farm corn mazes are a novelty you walk through in fifteen minutes and photograph from a viewing platform. Rural Hill’s Amazing Maize Maze is built as a game, with stations inside the corn that you have to find and work through. That changes the visit substantially, and it changes who it suits.
For a child of eight or ten, it is the best version of this attraction category: something with a goal, a map, and a reason to keep going into the fourth turn. For a three-year-old, it is an hour of tall walls and no payoff. Be honest about which one you are bringing.
The published day-maze hours are 10am to 5pm, but the last entry is 3:30pm. That is a ninety-minute gap between when you can get in and when the site closes, and it exists because the farm knows how long people take inside. Treat 3:30pm as the closing time and work backwards. If you also want the hay wagon ride and time in the pumpkin patch, an arrival before 1pm gives you a comfortable afternoon; an arrival at 3pm gives you a scramble.
The night maze has the same structure with different numbers: from 5pm on Friday and Saturday, last entry 9pm. Nine o’clock is a hard cutoff and the drive up from Charlotte on an October Friday is not fast.
The activity list includes a pumpkin patch, food trucks and local breweries, and none of that is covered by maze admission. This is the standard structure at ticketed corn mazes and it is not unreasonable, but it means the number you see in the booking flow is a starting point. A family of four doing the maze, buying two pumpkins and eating from the trucks is realistically looking at double the ticket total by the time they leave.
The breweries are worth flagging as a genuine differentiator rather than an upsell. Very few operations in this category are designed for adults to enjoy independently of their children, and a food-truck-and-beer setup on a historic site on a September evening is a legitimately good Friday night.
Tickets are sold online and are not tied to a date. This is unusually generous and it is the single best thing about buying here: North Carolina Octobers deliver rain, hurricane remnants and 80-degree Saturdays in unpredictable order, and a ticket you can move is a ticket you will actually use.
The limit is that a non-dated ticket is not a reservation. The farm sells out on peak October weekends, and holding a ticket for a day that has hit capacity is no help. If your visit has to be one of the last two Saturdays in October, treat that as the risky choice and have a backup weekend in mind.
The season opens September 5, which is early. Nine weekends is a long run for a Carolina corn maze, and the first month of it is largely ignored by a metro that starts thinking about pumpkins in October. Early September in the Piedmont is still hot in the afternoon, which argues for the 10am opening or the night maze, but the trade is a maze you can actually work through without walking into the back of a queue at every station.
Two calls’ worth of unknowns remain in the record: the current 2026 price, and anything about accessibility. The price is answerable in two minutes by opening the online ticket flow. The rest is a phone call to 704-875-3113. And whatever your satnav suggests, put Neck Road in it, not Jim Kidd Road.
Weekends only, Friday through Sunday, September 5 to October 31, 2026. The day maze runs 10am to 5pm with last entry at 3:30pm, which is the number that matters: arrive by 2:30pm at the very latest if you want to finish the maze without being rushed. The night maze is Friday and Saturday from 5pm, last entry 9pm, and it is a different experience rather than a cheaper add-on. September weekends are the quiet ones here - the season starts unusually early for North Carolina, and most Charlotte families do not start thinking about corn mazes until the first weekend of October.
Budget two to three hours. The Amazing Maize Maze is built as a game with stations inside it, not a five-minute wander, so an hour in the corn is realistic before you add the hay wagon ride, the pumpkin patch, food trucks and letting children loose on the bounce houses.
Nine weekends is a long run, but the demand is not spread evenly across them. Rural Hill draws from the whole Charlotte metro and the farm sells out on peak October weekends, so the last three Saturdays of October are the pinch point. The non-date-specific ticket is a real advantage here and a real risk: it lets you move your visit, but it does not hold you a slot on a sold-out day.
Not published. This is a historic site with fields, so assume grass parking and soft ground after rain. The important navigation detail is the entrance, not the surface: use the Neck Road entrance. GPS routinely routes drivers to the Jim Kidd Road gate instead, which is the wrong one.
Nothing published. A cut corn maze is dirt, stalk stubble and uneven furrows, and a hay wagon involves a step up, so this is a difficult site for wheels. Call 704-875-3113 if that matters to your group.
Your children are under about five. The core attraction is a large puzzle maze and the supporting activities are a hay wagon ride, a pumpkin patch and bounce houses, which is a thin afternoon for a three-year-old at corn maze prices. Skip it too if you need a firm price before committing, because the farm does not publish one.
Huntersville is on the Lake Norman side of the metro, about twenty-five minutes north of uptown Charlotte on I-77. If you want a full fall Saturday, the free-entry patches closer to the city work well as a short morning stop before an afternoon or evening maze here.
Rural Hill does not publish maze prices on its own website; you see the figure inside the online ticket flow. Charlotte On The Cheap listed $16 adult and $13 child for the day maze and $20 and $17 for the night maze in the prior season, which is indicative rather than confirmed for 2026. A special event on October 25 is listed at $30.
No. Tickets are sold online and are not date-specific, so you can buy now and decide the weekend later. The trade-off is that a non-dated ticket does not reserve you a place on a weekend that sells out.
Longer than most. It is run as a puzzle with game stations inside rather than a single path, so plan for around an hour in the corn and two to three hours on site overall.
The night maze runs Friday and Saturday evenings from 5pm with a hard 9pm last entry, and you navigate the same corn in the dark with a flashlight. It is priced higher and it is a genuinely different experience, not a discount version of the day visit.
September 5 – October 31, 2026. Weekends (Friday-Sunday). Hours: Day maze 10:00am-5:00pm (last entry 3:30pm); night maze Friday and Saturday from 5:00pm (last entry 9:00pm).
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Rural Hill does not publish maze ticket prices on its own website; tickets are sold online and are not date-specific. Charlotte On The Cheap listed $16 adult / $13 child for the day maze and $20 adult / $17 child for the night maze in the prior (2025) season - treat those as indicative only. A special ticketed event on October 25 is listed at $30.
4431 Neck Road, Huntersville, NC 28078, in Mecklenburg County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Charlotte Region.
We track 5 patches in Charlotte Region, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 57 days against a regional average of 54, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, an after-dark attraction, which most Charlotte Region patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Mecklenburg County. All Charlotte Region patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
ruralhill.net
Checked August 2026.