Hershey park
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey founded the town of Hershey, Pa., in 1903, and today it has become a Willy Wonka-type play land for children and adults, with golf courses, theme parks, zoos, streetlamps shaped like Hershey Kisses and a chocolate spa where you can get covered in cocoa.
A trip to Hersheypark should begin with a visit to Hershey's Chocolate World, which offers a tour of the chocolate-making process (and ends with a visit to a gift shop). Then burn off those candy bars at Hershey park, which has six water rides, 20 kiddy rides and eight roller coasters. The Great Bear roller coaster is an inverted steel coaster that loops and twists at 61 mph, and riders who barrel down the Tidal Force flume reach 50 mph. The Roller Soaker, which will open in summer 2002, is a combination roller coaster-water rider and lets riders dump up to four gallons of water on spectators waiting to receive their revenge.
Admission to Hershey park also offers access to Zoo America, an 11-acre walk-through zoo that was once Hershey's personal zoo. Adults will want to book a room at the Mediterranean-style Hotel Hershey, which is based on Hershey's mansion. The spa offers treatments such as the Whipped Cocoa Bath, Chocolate Fondue Wrap and a Cocoa Butter Scrub, all of which prove that chocolate really is good for you.
Admission to Hershey park is $19.95 for children ages 3-8, $34.95 for ages 9-54, and $19.95 for 55-69.
Hershey park
100 West Hershey park Drive
Hershey, Pa.
Phone: (800) HERSHEY
A trip to Hersheypark should begin with a visit to Hershey's Chocolate World, which offers a tour of the chocolate-making process (and ends with a visit to a gift shop). Then burn off those candy bars at Hershey park, which has six water rides, 20 kiddy rides and eight roller coasters. The Great Bear roller coaster is an inverted steel coaster that loops and twists at 61 mph, and riders who barrel down the Tidal Force flume reach 50 mph. The Roller Soaker, which will open in summer 2002, is a combination roller coaster-water rider and lets riders dump up to four gallons of water on spectators waiting to receive their revenge. Admission to Hershey park also offers access to Zoo America, an 11-acre walk-through zoo that was once Hershey's personal zoo. Adults will want to book a room at the Mediterranean-style Hotel Hershey, which is based on Hershey's mansion. The spa offers treatments such as the Whipped Cocoa Bath, Chocolate Fondue Wrap and a Cocoa Butter Scrub, all of which prove that chocolate really is good for you.
Admission to Hershey park is $19.95 for children ages 3-8, $34.95 for ages 9-54, and $19.95 for 55-69.
Hershey park
100 West Hershey park Drive
Hershey, Pa.
Phone: (800) HERSHEY
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