Wild Adventure Corn Maze under new ownership, reveals season design

SHELLEY– It’s the same maze, with a new look under new ownership. The Wild Adventure Corn Maze is opening this fall, and owners have recently revealed this season’s design: “Thank you to our veterans.”

New owners Ryan and Bethany Searle say they were well acquainted with the previous owner, Richard Johnson. When the opportunity for the maze to change hands came up, they jumped on board. Johnson has had the maze since 2011, and before that, it was owned by founder Shawn Stolworthy.

“After watching how it went last year and helping in certain aspects of the maze, me and my wife decided that this would be a good opportunity to take on this new challenge and keep it in our area, and our goal is to keep in there,” Ryan Searle says.

The Searles were basically a shoo-in, as Johnson paid to use their property off Interstate 15 exit 113 as a new location for the maze last year. Searle says the maze changed location because every once in a while, the crop has to be rotated in order to preserve healthy soil.

“It had been at its location for several years and needed an opportunity to move to a different piece of property,” he says. “People can relate to that maze, and really, it hasn’t moved very far from where it was (originally).”

Searle says coming up with the design for the maze is one of the most difficult tasks. With help from the original owner, Stolworthy, who now owns Maze Play, they engineered the veteran theme.

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Photo cred: A Veteran’s Aerial View LLC