Giant Northern California corn maze celebrates farmers, lets visitors enjoy getting lost

DIXON, Calif. -- The owners of a elephantine Northern California maize maze erstwhile crowned the world's largest privation visitors to retrieve that determination is amusive successful getting lost.

"It is confusing. It's exciting, and successful a satellite of GPS and changeless signage, you ever cognize wherever you are, wherever you're going," said Tayler Cooley, whose household owns Cool Patch Pumpkins. "When you're successful the corn, everything looks the aforesaid until you popular up connected a span and you're like, 'Oh wait, I'm each the mode implicit here. I thought I was implicit there.'"

The maize maze astatine Cool Patch Pumpkins is photographed Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, successful Dixon, Calif.

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The pumpkin spot and maize maze on Interstate 80 betwixt Sacramento and San Francisco are unfastened erstwhile again for the autumn play done Halloween. Back successful 2007 and again successful 2014, Cool Patch Pumpkins earned a spot successful the Guinness Book of World Records arsenic the world's largest maize maze.

The maze - dispersed retired implicit 40 acres - typically takes astatine slightest 45 minutes to implicit and features 5 antithetic bridges that let maze-goers to emergence supra the stalks. It is besides known for the elaborate designs the squad creates successful the maze that tin beryllium seen from overhead. This year's maze celebrates farmers. Previous seasons honored veterans and archetypal responders with elephantine murals included successful the maze design.

The maize maze astatine Cool Patch Pumpkins is photographed Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, successful Dixon, Calif.

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"Everything is done by hand," Cooley said. "We privation to pass thing amusive and exciting, and past we physique our pathways astir that."

On a caller afternoon, visitors from adjacent and acold coiled their mode done the maze.

"I person nary consciousness of direction, and we could walk each time here. That's fine. We person water. We'll survive, 3 days," said Ryan Moore, who was visiting from Hawaii.

Ellie Webster, left, Darren Tang find a span aft turning a country wrong the maize maze astatine Cool Patch Pumpkins successful Dixon, Calif., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.

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Likewise, Shelley Tang from Redwood City, California, joked determination is ever maize to devour if they get lost.

"My children person a amended consciousness of absorption than me, truthful I'll beryllium pursuing them," she said.

A maize maze successful Quebec, Canada, arsenic good arsenic those successful Minnesota and Illinois, besides boast record-breaking mazes, either by acreage oregon mileage.

Beyond the maze, Cool Patch features a maize bath for toddlers afloat of 150,000 pounds of dried corn.