When Judith Cantor and her family wanted to go to try a corn maze, they didn’t want to drive all the way from their home in Brooklyn to the East End of Long Island — so instead they chose F&W Schmitt's Family Farm in Melville.

"I didn’t even know we had places so close to our home," says Cantor.

While most farms offering corn mazes are east of Yaphank, there are choices to the west.

F&W Schmitt’s Family Farm in Melville

26 Pinelawn Rd., Melville

The farm offers one of the biggest corn mazes west of Yaphank, at 6 acres, and it has activities along the walk. "We do a new theme every year," says Schmitt’s manager Ferdie Schmitt. This year's maze theme is "Loch Ness Monster." People who walk the maze get paper and pencil and at each station, they can make rubbings of bagpipes, Nessie, kil

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