Hershey Park

[Pikapower]

Discuss about the theme park located in Hershey, Pennsylvania (the home of Hershey's chocolate)!

[TheFugitive]

Was there once with my kids about 12 years ago.   Nice park, but not different enough
from Kennywood that it was likely worth the drive across the state.

Not to mention we went on some New York City promotional day when half of
Brooklyn was there, with attitudes in-hand.

I found the tour of the Hershey Chocolate Factory and the historical info on the life
of Milton Hershey to be much more interesting.  Hershey Chocolate was his THIRD
attempt to start a candy company.  The first two were miserable failures that ended
in bankruptcy.  He actually borrowed the money to start Hershey's from a former
employee at the second failed company.

He became fabulously wealthy, but lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment.
He donated his fortune to the Milton Hershey School for orphans.

It is also home to the oldest non-NHL professional hockey team in North America,
the Hershey Bears.