The Cooper Family Farm corn maze is celebrating its sixteenth year of fall fun.

The maze is open Monday through Thursday with a reservation, 5 to 10 p.m. on Fridays, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturdays, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The maze is open until Oct. 30.

Admission to the maze is $8 for people 4-years-old and up and free for children 3-years-old and under. Included in the price of admission for the 8-acre corn maze is a cow train, unlimited corn crib crawl adventures and access to the kids play area.

The maze is carved out into a different themed design each year. Past themes have included a 9/11 tribute, a tribute to the pumpkin festival and one for coal miners. This year, the design is themed for the November election, where it includes the word vote, a donkey, an elephant and Uncle Sam in the shape of West Virginia.

Kim Cooper, the owner of the Cooper Family Farm, said he is worried how the election will go and what it will mean for West Virginia. Cooper is also raising awareness of the election with a corn vote.

“We have a box where you can vote for the president, whether it would be republican or democrat,” Cooper said, “and then towards the end of the season we will open it up and publish our results.”

Upon entering the maze, a person gets a themed passport that has ten questions on it and there are ten decision points in the maze. Answering the questions correctly will take a person to the next decision point. If answered incorrectly, it will make a person go in circles and lead to dead ends. Different passport themes include: television, movies, music, an interactive one that involves playing games, the Bible, boy scouts, girl scouts, Halloween, sports, American history and 4-H.

The Field of Screams, or the haunted maze, will be open Oct. 21, Oct. 22, Oct. 28 and Oct. 29. The haunted maze admission is $10 per person regardless of age and there are not reservations for the haunted maze.

Zip-ling is $20 for 1 ride and $30 for 2. The course is made up of three towers and three zip runs with over 1,500 feet of flying. For a combo deal, it is $25 for a zip line ride and the maze and $35 for 2 rides on the zip line and the maze. There is not an age limit, however, the zip line’s weight limits are between 100 to 260 pounds. All riders must also fill out a waiver. Riders under the age of 18 must have a guardian signed waiver.

“We enjoy having groups or families or even individuals,” Cooper said. “We get people from Wheeling to Wytheville and from Kentucky to almost Columbus. We have a lot of couples that do a first date there.”

Buying pumpkins and renting tents with a fire pit is also available. Tent rentals have a 2-hour limit and is $25. The pumpkin prices depend on the size of the pumpkins.

The Cooper Family Farm is located behind Milton Pre-K, which is located at 1302 Route 60 Milton, West Virginia. Parking is behind the school. From the parking lot, a tractor gives hayrides to the maze area.

Krislyn Holden can be contacted at [email protected].