Hersheypark
“the sweetest place on earth”
Built in 1906 so chocolate factory workers had somewhere to picnic — now a coaster capital where the observation tower is shaped like a Kiss and the wind sometimes smells like cocoa.
✦ milton hershey built it in 1906 so the factory workers had a picnic ground
THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 23 PIECES
queue-timesChocolatetown
2The Hollow
5Kissing Tower Hill
2Midway America
5Pioneer Frontier
4Founder's Way
2The Boardwalk
2Hersheypark is a company-town picnic ground that quietly became a top-five coaster lineup: a 1946 woodie, the East Coast's first loop, a hyper named after candy, and Skyrush — the most underrated terror in America.
Ride Skyrush in a wing seat, race Lightning Racer twice (green wins mornings, red wins nights, no one knows why), and take the Kissing Tower up at dusk when the factory lights come on.
Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the Kiss climbs its tower, green races red through the lattice, and the Coal Cracker boat never stops splashing down.