While I already have a section of US State mazes on the site, I am going to be adding to that today. To recap what was there in the past: 2 versions of state mazes, one difficult for adults and a second for kids that includes some of the important state information. Those mazes end at the state capital and include a list at the bottom. Here are the Ohio examples for reference:

Each of these sections have 51 mazes since I gave pages to Washington DC also. Well back in 2021 I also made a third section that was never posted. It isn’t perfect but I decided to finally pull it together out of the archive and let you decide if you like it. Personally, I think it is a fun activity for kids. It is based off of a Trail Maze concept. In a trail maze there are typically no walls, instead you solve the clue/word puzzle by moving from start to goal a letter at a time to form the answer and solve the maze. Here is the Ohio Trail Maze as an example. Each state has a motto represented at the bottom by dashes. To fill in the extra space I added word find but the words are scrambled so they aren’t in straight lines like a traditional version. Hints are the first and last letter of the phrase. The second shows the motto solved and 2 of the word finder answers as an example:

I should mention that many of the mottos are in Latin. Those are all noted on the page so you can look up the motto rather than guess Latin words cluelessly. Here is the Trail Maze books cover in red, white, and blue.

The page holding all of the state mazes got a refresh with the 3 mazes for each state sitting together rather than each type getting it’s own section. Hopefully teachers will like the student and trail mazes.