1. Hersheypark
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 300 Park Blvd.
Description: This is big coaster country. There are 11 to be exact, and they include some real screamers. One recent addition, The Boardwalk, with its centerpiece 54,000-gallon East Coast Waterworks, is a combination of slides, interactive water toys, ropes, and bridges; surf-simulating Waverider and Coastline Plunge, which sends you plummeting down one of four watery chutes from 50 feet above the ground; and an Aquatheatre where Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins and California sea lions put on a splashy spectacular. The 36-inch-tall and under crowd has more than 25 rides to call their own. Check the website for seasonal hours and discounts.
2. Falconry Experience at the Hotel Hershey
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: It’s a thrilling experience to watch these magnificent birds of prey in free flight. See for yourself why falconry has been the sport of royalty for more than 4,000 years. It’s really a breathtaking experience. Available Memorial Day through Labor Day.
3. ZooAmerica: Hershey
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 534-3900
Address: 100 W. Hersheypark Dr.
Description: Located just across a walking bridge from Hersheypark is this 11-acre walk-through zoo, where over 200 animals, representing 75 species native to the 5 regions of North America, live in naturalistic habitats. Open year-round. Visit the website for seasonal hours. Same-day admission to ZooAmerica is included in the Hersheypark one-price admission plan during the regular summer season when entered from within Hersheypark.
4. Hershey’s Chocolate World
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 534-4900
Address: 251 Park Blvd.
Description: You can’t actually tour the Hershey factory, but you can learn about the chocolate-making process on a free, fun-filled ride narrated by a comely trio of crooning cows and their bull buddy, Hef. The Hershey Company’s Official Visitor Center and a store that’s stocked to overflowing with confectionery creations are conveniently located in the same building. Open 7 days a week year-round. Chocolate World also offers a number of other activities and attractions including a “create-your-own-candy-bar” experience ($$), 30-minute, 3D animated musical extravaganza starring the Hershey product characters ($), and a guided chocolate-tasting adventure ($).
5. Hershey Trolley Works
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 533-3000
Address: 251 Park Blvd.
Insider Pick:
Description: Take a tour through town as singing conductors provide a musical and historical background. It’s great fun and you get to eat chocolate.
6. Adventure Sports in Hershey
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 533-7479
Address: 3010 Elizabethtown Rd.
Description: The whole family will love the wide variety of sports activities that are offered here, including 18-hole miniature golf, bumper boats, batting cages (lighted for night fun), go-karts, and 20-acre lighted driving range. New outdoor laser tag, a hybrid of indoor laser tag and paintball. Season begins early Apr and continues to the end of Oct. Open daily in summer; check the website for the rest of the seasonal schedule.
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 170 Hotel Rd.
8. AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) Museum
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 566-7100
Address: 161 Museum Dr.
Description: Auto aficionados can travel through time and space, experiencing the evolution of design and the fickleness of fashion. On display are more than 90 historic cars, from Henry Ford’s Model T to the epitome of road royalty as exemplified by Packard, Pierce, Lincoln, and Cord.
9. The Hershey Story
City: Hershey, PA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (717) 534-3439
Address: 63 W. Chocolate Ave.
Description: Interactive multimedia exhibits and artifacts guide you through the history of Milton Hershey, his company, and his town. Check the website for seasonal hours. At Cafe Zooka in The Hershey Story Museum, you can sample a flight of warm drinking chocolates from around the world to surprise and educate your palate. $—1 flight can be easily shared by at least 2 people.