# Hershey Park - only for kids?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hershey-park-only-for-kids/744497>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hershey-park-only-for-kids/744497 "2016-01-28T15:45:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hershey-park-only-for-kids/744497/21 "2016-01-29T19:24:40Z")

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My husband and I went there as adults and had fun. They had a beautiful flower garden, and there was a puppet show in which they asked some really old riddles, like how do you know the ocean’s friendly?

Because it’s always waving.

We solved several in a row and they gave us a bucket of free chocolate.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hershey-park-only-for-kids/744497/22 "2016-02-03T03:56:17Z")

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> [@kopek](#):
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> I could be wrong, parks have been changing hands a lot the past couple years, but I’m pretty sure Dutch Wonderland is owned by the same parent company as Kennywood, Idlewild and Lake Compounce. It’s a sort of split between a pure kiddy-park like Idlewild and their more family/adult Kennywood. Hershey owned it for a few years (2000-2010?) but they really didn’t do anything to change it at all other than possibly renaming the Sky Princess to Kingdom Coaster; I believe that was under their watch.

You may be right. I just have a vague memory of, a few years ago, seeing ticketing info claiming you could get into either park, or some other indication that they were joined at the time. As I’m about 50 years older than Dutch Wonderland’s target audience, I didn’t take advantage of the opportunity :D. Nor have I paid attention to DW since then.

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hershey-park-only-for-kids/744497/23 "2016-02-03T12:23:42Z")

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We go to Hersheypark every year. Lots of roller coasters and other stuff for grownups, and a lot of stuff for kids.

If you go, let me know. Airman and the sprog and I live near there and we’d love to get together.

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