The Field of Screams maze archive spans 2002 through 2026, turning more than two decades of Kentucky corn designs into a visual history of the attraction.
Most haunted attractions disappear when the lights come on. At Field of Screams, part of every season remains visible from the air.
Since 2002, a new design has been cut into the six-acre corn maze on our Brandenburg, Kentucky farm. The aerial archive now spans 2002 through 2026, preserving the shapes, characters, messages and tributes that visitors experienced from inside the field.
That archive is more than a gallery. It is the clearest visual history of Field of Screams: one farm, one tradition and a different maze waiting every fall.
It began in 2002
Field of Screams has been delivering haunted nights in Brandenburg since 2002. Over time, visitors have come from Louisville, Elizabethtown, Fort Knox, Radcliff and communities across Southern Indiana to enter the barn, woods, corn and hayride route after dark.
The maze gives each season its own signature. A permanent building can change inside while looking the same from a distance. A cornfield has to be grown and cut again. The design belongs to that year because the field itself is temporary.
When the season ends, the photograph becomes the record.
Why an aerial design matters
A maze only needs paths to function. An aerial design asks the field to do more.
From above, the paths become lines in a larger image. The field can carry a character, symbol, message or tribute that visitors cannot fully see while walking inside it. That creates two different experiences from the same six acres.
The aerial view lets you understand the whole design. The ground-level view removes that understanding and turns the lines back into choices. Art from above becomes uncertainty from inside.
That contrast is the reason the annual design remains central to the Field of Screams identity.
A visual archive from 2002 through 2026
The full maze page presents every year from newest to oldest. Visitors can move backward from the 2026 design to the first 2002 field and watch the visual language change across more than two decades.
Some designs are bold and frightening. Some carry words. Some mark a moment with a tribute, including “Support Our Troops” and “United We Stand.” Together, they show that the maze has never been only a background for the rest of the attraction.
If you visited Field of Screams in an earlier year, find the design from that season. It may bring back a specific group, a specific scare or the person who insisted they knew the way through.
If 2026 will be your first visit, start with the newest design and remember that the clean aerial lines will not look nearly as helpful after dark.
The maze is one part of a larger farm tradition
Field of Screams is not only the corn. The Main Event combines the six-acre maze with a massive two-story haunted barn and forbidden woods. Hayride 2 Hell adds a wagon route through fog-covered locations of horror.
Those environments allow the farm to shift scale across the night. The barn brings the walls close. The woods open into the treeline. The corn blocks direction. The hayride carries the group across the property.
The maze is the piece that can be seen most clearly from the sky, but it belongs to a complete haunted farm experience on the ground.
Review the ticket combinations to decide whether you want the Main Event or the whole farm.
Why visitors return to a changing field
A seasonal tradition needs a balance. People return because they recognize the place, but they want the new year to matter.
The annual maze design makes change unavoidable. Even before anyone enters the field, 2026 is visually different from 2025. The photograph gives returning visitors a reason to compare, and the ground-level maze gives them a new route to face.
That does not mean every part of the experience needs to be replaced for the sake of appearing fresh. It means the farm has a natural cycle. The corn grows, the design is cut, the attraction opens and a new season joins the archive.
A Kentucky and Southern Indiana Halloween landmark
Field of Screams is at 132 Darnall Ave in Brandenburg, about 45 minutes southwest of Louisville and directly across the Ohio River from Harrison County, Indiana. The Matthew E. Welsh Bridge connects Brandenburg and Mauckport, placing the attraction inside the wider Kentuckiana fall map.
Visitors from Corydon, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Crawford County, Washington County and Perry County can use the Southern Indiana guide to plan the trip. Kentucky visitors can begin with the complete 2026 visitor guide.
Every route ends with the same important direction: continue one mile past the Otter Creek Park entrance. Do not turn into the park.
See the archive, then enter the newest field
The maze designs from 2002 through 2026 tell the history from above. The 2026 season lets you step into the newest chapter from the ground.
Field of Screams is open Fridays and Saturdays from September 18 through October 31, 2026, dusk until 1:00 AM. The event is cash only, with ATMs onsite. Wear shoes suited to farm ground and save the route before signal gets thin.
Explore the complete corn-maze archive, compare ticket options and get directions to the farm.
The field looks finished from the air. After dark, that is when it begins.
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