Hersheypark is the self-proclaimed sweetest place on Earth and it’s hard to disagree. This Pennsylvania amusement park has a stacked ride lineup with 14 roller coasters (including 2 hyper coasters) and the full-fledged Boardwalk water park. Along with the thrills, this park manages to be beautiful and charming. Plus, you also have Hershey’s Chocolate World next door for free. Find out why this may be the best park in the northeast!
Video Credits
Breakers Edge POV (Hersheypark)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4muSQ_phJJM
Canyon River Rapids (Sean Flaharty)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLV5YohNrI
Kissing Tower POV (Hersheypark)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbZPMzeqto
Laff Trakk POV (Hersheypark)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYSlcb1xZk
Reese’s Cupfusion POV (Sally Dark Rides)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1dKCAEaTM&t=1s
Background Music
Upbeat Vlog and Event Music by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Early Morning- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqCEFuQqF8
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you need to go to Toverland in the Netherlands
I'm not sure if it was operating during opening weekend, but the kissing tower was running last year at christmas time, so I imagine it should be open this year too.
Hersheypark is truly amazing and it’s one of the few parks that I visit every year. Also, I also recommend eating Troggs if anyone wants to eat at a restaurant outside and near the park.
Who knew a park from a chocolate company would have 14 coasters? This collection is amazing. They have 2 hypers, several looping coasters, and some good wooden cones. The park may not have much room left to expand both they don't need to worry about that as this park is already good enough to travel the country for. THe fat they have a hyper for people who want an intense experience or a more tame one shows they have something for everyone. Also Farechngiht looks absolutely amazing.
I've never understood Skyrush being described as intense but the restraints are every bit as awful as everyone says.
Do they charge for parking at night for the preview program? I'm not sure one hour in the park is worth $20 to park.
I visited once in 2018, but one of my favorite parts was how they gave out water. They filled full size cups and set them out for people to just grab. I enjoyed both the accessibility and the size. Most parks you have to wait in line just to get a small cup
Dude i been to Hershey park 2 times and i did all of this wrong! 😆
Holy shit a FREE darkride :O
That's amazing
As a minnesotan, I can’t wait to go this summer on that road trip with my parents!
Its got the same problem as Disney..its way too overcrowded, mostly on weekends, without the capacity to handle it. Otherwise, its a great park with some awesome rides.
I adore the park but I find it to be becoming more and more corporate.. it feels like a six flags park with all the adverts if six flags cared about paint and landscaping- and the pricing seems like Disney.. I don’t know why a sweatshirt costs $50.
That looked like some insane ejector airtime in the back car at 0:38
Which one do you think is better Boston tea party or title force I’ve only been on one them The Boston tea party because Canobie lake is my home park
It's a good park but I still like great adventure better
Love Hershey Park, happy to call it one of my home parks many "home" parks.
Hershey is my fav park that's close to me (philly is in a good spot for coasters tbh). ive done season passes for great adventure and hershey and the overall vibe of hershey makes it more worth it to me even if they dont have el toro. dorney is also a cute little park and has an excellent haunt for what it's worth. im interested to see what hershey does since they advertised something a bit scarier this season
When I went three days ago I saw a Hawk on one of the trees near Great Bear I don’t see birds of prey at amusement parks at all I have a fascination with birds of prey since I was young
Storm Runner was only running one train when I went the other day and holy moly it was taking forever to load I wanted to get more footage but I wasn’t going to wait
I’m very grateful this is my homepark because it has such a great lineup
Super Duper first coaster lol
at one time they gave out full size Hershey bars after chocolate world
12:40 time marker — Sidewinder was rethemed to Jolly Rancher Remix, complete with a new color scheme and a flavor tunnel.
This review is great! Except for 20:14 that laff track is weather dependent. I am very curious what your opinions are on spring creek BBQ.
It's funny marathoning Candymonium with early entry and then seeing the zombie horde rush it when the gates open. Becomes a matter of seconds as to whether you'll get that last re-ride before the back 7 row queues go from empty to full. If Intamin built a coaster that was Storm Runner as the first half, and Maverick's second half as the second half, that would be the best coaster in the world.
Re: ride strategy, I encountered the following on Thursday/Friday June 9th and 10th of 2022:
1) Thursday – Fahrenheit opened late (Friday too). Rode Laff Trakk first. Storm Runner got a line quickly. That with slow ops resulted in over a 30 minute wait for Storm Runner even with Fast Track.
2) Friday – Rode Storm Runner first after official park open. 4 re-rides (no leaving the ride), two in front row, two in back, then a line showed up. Got two rides on Jolly Rancher Remix, then the park got slammed on every ride.
3) Skyrush had over an hour wait most of the day on both days. The line for Candymonium still had a 90-minute posted wait time in the afternoon.
4) The Fast Track line merge points in this park are awful on the major rides compared to any other park I can think of, except for Fahrenheit, which was a 1 to 4 minute wait with Fast Track (over an hour without). With Fast Track, riding Storm Runner first and saving Fahrenheit for later was the better option.
Ops:
– Unreasonably slow. Most B&M inverts (e.g. Batman clones) are short lines or walk-ons, but Great Bear (an average B&M invert) had a 60-90 minute wait. Candymonium dispatch speed is molasses compared to similar B&M Hypers.
– Most of Hershey's rides were staffed with teenagers. It was comical how little the Hershey employees seemed to care about their jobs or know about the park. We eventually made a game out of it. In front of Skyrush, there are a number of employees working at different functions. We asked 5 of them, "Excuse me, do you know where Skyrush is? We can't find it." None of them knew, even though the coaster was towering right behind them.
– The park has an illogical locker policy, e.g. Candymonimum has cubbies, but sometimes (not others), there is a disgruntled teenager working the line queue entrance who demands that some people, but not others, store their items in a locker instead of the ride cubbies. Similar scenario on other rides. Can't really blame the teenagers for this. The ops are ultimately a failure of management, and a glaring weakness of Hershey relative to its nearby competitors. Hershey probably needs to make a personnel change here, poaching a competent ride operations manager from Six Flags Great Adventure.
Zoo America:
It was sad seeing caged deer, an alligator with a tiny space to swim, and other neglected animals. If Hershey discontinued this lackluster area, they could potentially expand their coaster lineup into that space, which they would need to do if they wanted to compete with nearby parks for number of quality coasters per hour that a guest can experience (e.g. I got less than half the rides per day here as compared to Six Flags Great Adventure). Multiple times I heard groups of guests complaining that there was nothing to do in the park that didn't have an hour wait or more.
Food:
Chocalatier was relatively good. Patio seating much more pleasant than indoor (tried both). Get the salad dressing on the side if you get a salad, otherwise they drown it. Soft pretzels were great, ice cream was pretty good too, Tropical Smoothie Cafe (outside the park) has good smoothies, and Duck Donuts rules!
I really enjoy this park! Great review. Candymonium is a really great floating airtime coaster, and Great Bear gives some unusual airtime for an invert. Storm Runner is surprisingly disorienting and a blast to ride. Skyrush wasn't open on my last visit due to the lift hill work, so I don't know how much better it is with the new seats/restraints, but was quite painful several years ago.
The first time I went in 2018, the park was submerged under 3 feet of water, but luckily in 2019 I was able to go as it wasn’t flooded. They had a temporary entrance during that season and it was basically a huge tent.