October is here and with it comes the fun of special fall events and activities. The Corn Maze in Milton, West Virginia, celebrates its 15th year as an annual fall event for the region.

The maze is owned and operated by Kim Cooper and his wife Joyce Cooper. Kim Cooper said he and his wife were youth directors looking for different things to do when they decided to start the maze.

“I was looking at a magazine and saw a corn maze in Tennessee,” Kim Cooper said. “It planted the seed for us, no pun intended.”

The once 100-acre maze now stretches over 700 acres of land. The Coopers have added a zip line, “corncrib crawl” for little kids, homemade teeter-totters and a 12×12 corn box.

“We just want a good place for families to spend quality time together,” Kim Cooper said.

During Oct. the Coopers also offer a haunted corn maze for those looking for some scary Halloween fun. Marshall freshman, Paiton Dean, once volunteered to work the haunted maze as a “haunter” when in high school.

“We got to dress up basically however we wanted, as long as it was scary of course,” Dean said. “It was so much fun because I was with my friends, and who doesn’t have fun scaring people?”

According to Kim Cooper, people come to visit the maze all the way from Wheeling, West Virginia and Morehead, Kentucky.

“There’s nothing else in this area like it, so I think it’s such a unique thing to experience,” Dean said.

The maze is open Monday through Thursday by reservation and open to the public Friday through Sunday until Nov. 1st.

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