Overview
- Farms in roughly 15 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces are moving ahead with Dolly Parton–themed corn mazes this fall, reframing planned attractions as memorial tributes following the singer’s death on Tuesday.
- The multi-site campaign was produced by Utah-based The MAiZE Inc., which worked with Parton and her Imagination Library on the maze concept and ran a promotional video that premiered the day before her death.
- Individual sites vary in scale and timing: All Seasons Orchard in Woodstock, Illinois unveiled a 6-acre portrait maze that opens this weekend and runs through Nov. 1, Jaemor Farms in Alto, Georgia listed its Harvest Celebration starting Sept. 12, and Happy Day Farm in Manalapan, New Jersey plans an 8-acre maze that opens Sept. 19.
- Participating farms say portions of ticket sales and separate direct donations will go to local Imagination Library chapters, but the exact share of proceeds differs by site and remains unconfirmed for some locations.
- The project ties a long-running agritainment tradition to Parton’s literacy legacy — The MAiZE’s Country Music Corn Maze series has honored Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan and Lainey Wilson in recent years and the Imagination Library has mailed hundreds of millions of free books to children since 1995.