The Hershey Story
The Hershey Story is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 126 m. Big Lick Mountain stands 545 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Chocolate Town Square, a park 0.1 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Museum of the Hershey Company
Dates from 2009.
Wikidata Q7739512, matched on coordinates and name (535 m apart).
What to expect
- Operated by
- Hershey Company
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 10.9 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Chocolate Town Square: 0.1 mi
- Hershey Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Founder's Park: 0.9 mi
- Swatara Creek Park: 1.4 mi
- Palmdale Park: 1.5 mi
- Great Bear: 0.1 mi
- Twin Turnpike - Speedway: 0.1 mi
- Coal Cracker: 0.1 mi
- sooperdooperLooper: 0.1 mi
- Twizzlers Twisted Gravity: 0.2 mi
- Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Abandoned Mount Gretna Prison Foundations: 8.4 mi
- Highspire War Memorial: 8.9 mi
- The "Governor's Troop": 9.5 mi
- 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Camp Hastings.: 9.6 mi
- Education Center: 0.9 mi
- Pennsylvania State Police Historical, Educational, & Memorial Center: 1.4 mi
- Kinderhaus: 1.5 mi
- AACA Museum: 2.2 mi
- Hummelstown Area Historical Society Library & Office: 3.3 mi
- Round Top: 5.0 mi
- Conewago Hill: 9.4 mi
- Governor Dick Hill: 10.7 mi
- Mount Ararat: 10.8 mi
- Hulls Hill: 11.6 mi
- Milton S. Hershey: 0.3 mi
- The Boy with the Leaking Boot: 0.9 mi
- Winter: 0.9 mi
- Fall: 0.9 mi
- Spring: 0.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 246: 4.9 mi
- Bellaire Woods: 8.1 mi
- Shaw Family Nature Preserve: 8.3 mi
- State Game Lands Number 145: 8.8 mi
- State Game Lands Number 275: 9.0 mi
- Historic Hershey Rose Garden: 0.9 mi
- Bill Bowman Garden: 0.9 mi
- Northside Garden: 3.6 mi
- Palmyra Community Library: 4.5 mi
- Prayer Garden: 7.3 mi
- Original Carrousel Circle: 0.2 mi
- Quitte Creek Nature Park: 8.2 mi
- Hemlock Grove: 9.8 mi
- Main Campfire Circle: 14.0 mi
- Swing Circle: 14.0 mi
- Spring Creek Springs: 1.1 mi
- Penryth Spring: 8.8 mi
- Donegal Spring: 13.5 mi
- Spring Lake Spring: 14.6 mi
- Eichelberger Spring: 14.7 mi
- Chickies Rock: 17.5 mi
- Chinese Wall: 19.0 mi
- Round Head: 23.7 mi
- Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 9.6 mi
- Concrete Beach: 12.9 mi
- Rausch Gap: 15.1 mi
- Acrigg's Falls: 17.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Hershey Story. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lick Mountain | N 10° | 545 m | 22.0 mi |
| Short Mountain | N 349° | 500 m | 20.9 mi |
| Good Spring Mountain | NNE 18° | 500 m | 24.9 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 5° | 496 m | 22.7 mi |
| Stony Mountain | N 352° | 491 m | 12.9 mi |
| Third Mountain | NW 318° | 488 m | 12.5 mi |
| Panther Head | NNE 27° | 473 m | 23.2 mi |
| Berry Mountain | NNW 332° | 435 m | 19.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:01 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middletown Harrisburg Intl AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/234462983
Day trips start here
- Wrightsville · 19 mi
- York · 23 mi
- Lancaster · 25 mi
- Lancaster County · 27 mi
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