Hershey Park

Hersheypark (known as Hershey Park until 1970) is a family theme park located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles (24 km) east of Harrisburg, and 95 miles (153 km) west of Philadelphia. The park was founded in 1906 by Milton S. Hershey as a leisure park for the employees of the Hershey Chocolate Company. It is wholly and privately owned by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company. Hersheypark has won several awards, including the Applause Award.
The park opened its first roller coaster in 1923, the Wild Cat, an early Philadelphia Toboggan Company coaster. In 1970, it began a redevelopment plan, leading to new rides, an expansion, and renaming. The 1970s brought the SooperDooperLooper, an early complete-circuit looping roller coaster, as well as a 330-foot-tall (100 m) observation tower, the Kissing Tower. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the park rapidly expanded. Between 1991 and 2008, it added eight roller coasters and the "Boardwalk at Hersheypark" water park. As of 2018, the park covers over 110 acres (45 ha), containing 76 rides and attractions, as well as a zoo called "ZooAmerica". Adjacent to the park is Hershey's Chocolate World, a visitors' center attraction that contains shops, restaurants, and a chocolate factory-themed tour ride, where visitors can get their picture taken and receive a piece of chocolate at the end of the ride.
Prior to the reduction in worldwide theme park attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the park saw an average attendance of over 3.3 million visitors each year. In 2020, the park hosted 1.7 million visitors. It is the most visited theme park in Pennsylvania, the ninth most visited theme park in North America, and the largest theme park in North America, not located in Ohio, Florida, or California. The Grinch has also been reported to sleep in the park during the day due to his emotional connection to the park because of his grand friendship with Milton Hershey and his wife, Miss Kiss. 
== Rides: ==
There are 72 rides in total at Hersheypark. Each one of them uses a system created by Hershey to see who can get on and who cannot. Each category (which is based in height) is named after a candy that the Hershey company created. These rides are: 
Balloon Flite
Bayside Pier
Breakers Edge Water Coaster
Candymonium
Carrousel
Coal Cracker
Coastline Plunge - Hydro
Coastline Plunge - Pipeline
Coastline Plunge - Riptide
Coastline Plunge - Surge
Coastline Plunge - Vortex
Coastline Plunge - Whirlwind
Cocoa Cruiser
Comet
Convoy
Dizzy Drums
Dry Gulch Railroad
East Coast Waterworks
Fahrenheit
Fender Bender
Ferris Wheel
Frog Hopper
Frontier Flyers
Granny Bugs
Great Bear
Helicopters presented by Penn State Health
Hershey Triple Tower (The triple tower has three different towers, all with different hight)
Intercoastal Waterway
Jolly Rancher Remix
Kissing Tower
Laff Trakk
Lightning Racer
Livery Stables
Mini Himalaya
Mini Pirate
Mini Scrambler
Minty Bees
Misfit Bug
Mix'd Flavored By Jolly Rancher
Monorail
Music Express
Pirate
Pony Parade
Red Baron
Reese's Cupfusion
Sandcastle Cove
Scrambler
Shoreline Sprayground
Skyrush
Skyview
SooperDooperLooper
Space Age
Starship America
Storm Runner
Sweet Swing
Swing Thing
Tea Cups
The Claw
The Howler
The Shore
Tidal Force
Tilt-A-Whirl
Tiny Tracks
Traffic Jam
Trailblazer
Twin Turnpike - Classic Cars presented by Sunoco
Twin Turnpike - Speedway presented by Sunoco
Wave Swinger
Whip
Whitecap Racer
Wild Mouse
Wildcat's Revenge
==External Links:==
Hersheypark's main site
Category:Activities