Get an early look at this KC corn maze celebrating Kelce & Swift's love story

Tammy Ljungblad, The Kansas City Star on Sep 12, 2025

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Amid continued excitement over the engagement of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and pop superstar Taylor Swift, a local farm is keeping love and football at the forefront of fall fun.

It’s been weeks since Kelce proposed to Swift, turning their backyard into a floral wonderland and surprising her just after she appeared on his New Heights podcast. The world watched as the 14-time Grammy winner and NFL star, who had been dating for over two years, shared their “Love Story” with millions.

To mark the occasion, Johnson Farms Plants and Pumpkins in Belton, Missouri, about 30 minutes south from Arrowhead Stadium, unveiled a special tribute: a sprawling, 9-acre corn maze cut into the field by Rob Stouffer of Precision Mazes. Braving unseasonably hot September temperatures, Stouffer worked all day Thursday and carved majestic silhouettes of the engaged couple into the corn, along with a pair of intertwined rings.

The maze showcased Kelce’s number 87, and Swift’s lucky 13, and the phrase “Kansas City is Enchanted,” which could be a nod to Swift’s song “Enchanted” from her 2010 album Speak Now. The maze was designed by a team at Precision Mazes.

“This is a working maze and was a design challenge for our team,” Stouffer said, whose employees collaborated on the design. With 3,000 feet of paths winding through the field, he calls it a “life-size puzzle for people,” not the hardest maze he’s crafted, but one designed for fun and one he hopes draws visitors to the farm.

Stouffer said he was inspired when he saw the couple’s engagement news pop up in an ESPN alert on his phone. He pitched two designs to Johnson Farms, and one was ultimately carved into the corn, spanning nine acres. This is not Stouffer’s first Taylor Swift-inspired crop art. In July 2023, As Swift was preparing to bring The Eras Tour to Arrowhead Stadium, Stouffer carved a quintessential Midwestern welcome message for the artist into field of wheat stubble in Orrick, Missouri.

It’s clear that Kansas City fans aren’t letting the fairy tale fade. With their love story now literally carved into a cornfield, the couple’s engagement has become a lasting part of the area’s landscape. Fans can enter a contest on the farm’s Instagram page and one lucky couple will have their initials carved into a personalized corn maze heart at the farm. The Taylor and Travis corn maze will open on Saturday and folks at Johnson Farms hope the visitors will be enchanted.

As for Stouffer, he’s already imagining and hoping his next big design might be a massive crop art celebrating Kansas City as a host city for the World Cup in 2026.