Households can discover ‘the nice pumpkin’ at this Caribou farm’s corn maze
CARIBOU, Maine — A Caribou farm household took inspiration from a Halloween basic for his or her newest fall corn maze.
Goughan’s Berry Farm is celebrating 17 years of its annual corn maze, which attracts hundreds of tourists each fall. This 12 months, the Goughans are paying tribute to the Peanuts tv particular “It’s the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”
Corn mazes are a fall custom in Maine and varied farms across the state provide them.
Mark Goughan reduce the corn within the 5-acre area into the shapes of Peanuts characters Charlie Brown, his sister Sally, greatest pal Linus and canine Snoopy. Linus is holding an indication that reads “Welcome Nice Pumpkin,” whereas Snoopy is dressed because the World Battle I flying ace, which is his Halloween costume within the particular. A zigzag sample connects the character shapes to the remainder of the maze.
The Goughans even have a 5-acre pumpkin patch, which impressed the maze’s “nice pumpkin” theme.
Goughan’s corn maze designs of years previous. Courtesy pictures.
All through the maze, households will full a Peanuts-themed crossword puzzle, phrase scramble and reality quiz about completely different characters. Picket cut-outs of Peanuts characters are scattered all through for photograph alternatives. However the greatest problem will likely be discovering the nice pumpkin itself, Goughan stated.
“If you could find the nice pumpkin, you win the sport and get a free ice cream,” Goughan stated.
It took Goughan two weeks to chop the corn into the fitting character shapes and the strolling paths. Then he spent one other three weeks creating indicators for the video games and making the bottom extra appropriate for strolling.
The maze sometimes takes from 45 minutes to at least one hour to finish, Goughan stated. However there’s a twist this 12 months: the maze has just one method in and a method out.
“Don’t fear. Each Thursday we ship our knowledgeable staff to seek for individuals from the week earlier than,” Goughan stated, jokingly. “We often discover not less than two thirds of the individuals who bought misplaced.”
Goughan stated the maze has turn out to be a good way for households to spend time collectively and be taught one thing new associated to every theme. Previous corn mazes have featured a snowmobiling moose, a tribute to Aroostook County Motion Program, a sixtieth birthday card to Goughan’s spouse Gloria and the College of Maine’s black bear mascot.
The corn maze opened final weekend and will likely be open on daily basis till after Halloween.
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