DIXON, Calif. (AP) — The owner of Northern California’s giant corn maze was once crowned with hoping to remember that the world’s biggest visitors get lost.
“It’s confusing. It’s exciting, and in a world of GPS and constant signage, you’re always always know where you’re and where you’re going,” said Taylor Cooley, owner of Cool Patch Pumpkins. “When you’re in corn, everything looked the same until you showed up on the bridge and you said, ‘Oh, I’m here. I thought I was over there.'”
Cooley’s pumpkin patch and corn maze along Interstate 80 between Sacramento and San Francisco are open again during the fall season throughout Halloween. In 2007, once again in 2014, Cool Patch Pumpkins competed in the Guinness World Records book as the world’s largest corn maze.
Maze – extends over 40 acres (16.2 hectares) – usually takes at least 45 minutes to complete, with five different bridges that allow the maze audience to rise above the stems. He is also known for his elaborate designs created by Cooley and his team in the maze. This year’s maze celebrates farmers. The previous season honored veterans and first responders with the enormous murals included in the maze design.
“It’s all done by hand,” Cooley said. “We want to share fun and exciting things and build paths around it.”
A recent afternoon visitor from afar through the maze.
“I had no sense of direction and I was able to spend the whole day here. It’s fine. We have water. We survive.
Similarly, Shelley Tang in Redwood City, California has corn to eat whenever you get lost.
“My kids have a better sense of direction than me, so I’ll follow them,” she said.
The corn maze of Quebec, Canada, and the maze of Minnesota and Illinois also boast record mazes based on lyrics and mileage.
Beyond the maze, the cool patch features a toddler corn bath filled with 150,000 pounds (68 kilograms) of dried corn.
