DIXON, Calif. —
The owner of a giant Northern California corn maze twice crowned the world's largest wants visitors to remember that there is fun in getting lost.
“It is confusing. It’s exciting, and in a world of GPS and constant signage, you always know where you are, where you’re going," said Taylor Cooley, owner of Cool Patch Pumpkins. “When you’re in the corn, everything looks the same until you pop up on a bridge and you’re like, ‘Oh wait, I’m all the way over here. I thought I was over there.’ ”
(Video above: An aerial look at the 2025 corn maze at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon.)
Cooley's pumpkin patch and corn maze along Interstate 80 between Sacramento and San Francisco are open once again for the fall season through Halloween. Back in 2007 and again in 2014, Cool Patch Pumpkin