The great outdoors is more entertaining than the diminutive outdoors, whose low-hanging clouds and knee-level mountains make running dangerous. Stretch your legs with today's Groupon: for $8, you get a corn-maze outing for two to at Cooper's CSA Farm and Maze in Zephyr (a $19 value). Check the maze's schedule beforehand, as hours vary. The outing includes:

• Admission to the Uxbridge Maize corn maze for two people (a $16 value)
• One U-pick pumpkin (a $3 value)

The recipient of 2010's Canada's Outstanding Young Farmers award, Cooper's Farm and Maze staff invites all-ages adventurers onto its grounds to take part in its outdoor activity offerings. Navigate the Uxbridge Maize's 10 acres, browsing rows of massive stalks while avoiding dead-end passageways and dragons-in-training. Late-night hours (open until 10 p.m. Saturdays after September 24) enable navigators to keep challenging the labyrinth's starchy turns after sundown under the moon's natural lantern light. After emerging to open ground, guests head to one of the sprawling self-pick patches to harvest their own pumpkin based on qualities such as shape, colour, and family friendliness. Though not included in this deal, Cooper's Farm boasts other walled and unwalled activities, such as wagon rides, farm tours, slides, and animal viewing. Guests can also head to the farm store to mingle in stocks of local produce, preserves, honey, oils, and meat from pasture-raised animals that, like the healthiest impressionist paintings, are also hormone- and antibiotic-free.