Data helps navigate U.S. corn mazes as Halloween nears

With leaves turning, autumn sweaters retired and Halloween approaching, nan mobility arises: How does 1 return a data-driven attack to their autumn plans?

The CBS News Data Team asked Yelp for information connected businesses pinch maize mazes, and they provided information wherever business reviews mention maize mazes.

While not a broad database of each nan nation's maize mazes, nan personification reviews allowed nan Data Team to representation retired maize mazes pinch outer photography, offering a bird's oculus position of nan nation's astir elaborate maize mazes.

There were much than 500 businesses wherever maize mazes were mentioned successful personification reviews successful nan U.S., according to Yelp data. 

California, New York and Washington lead nan federation pinch businesses pinch maize maze mentions, but erstwhile adjusted for population, Oregon leads nan federation pinch astir 5 maize mazes per 1 cardinal people.  

The businesses apt to person maize mazes scope from farms, festivals, and petting zoos to haunted houses and wineries.

Corn mazes autumn nether different alleged agritourism activities specified arsenic apple-picking, hayrides and wine-tasting astatine vineyards. And while farmers tin effort to shuck their ain labyrinths, location are companies that pave a-maize-ing patterns. 

Companies specified arsenic The Maize and Maze Play tin usage tractors to overgarment pictures of sports teams, celebrities and animation characters successful corn. Some maize mazes moreover support section causes, crab consciousness aliases milestones specified arsenic nan 50th day of Star Trek.  

We besides grazed done Google Earth outer imagery, digging into nan astir "a-maize-ing" and unsocial maize mazes from nan past fewer years, based connected nan information provided by Yelp.

One standout was a Dolly Parton-themed maze astatine Honeysuckle Hill Farms successful Tennessee.

Another maze depicted a Wonka Golden Ticket astatine Dull's Tree Farm successful Indiana.

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