As of 2020[update], the park covers over 121 acres (49 ha), containing 76 rides and attractions, as well as a zoo called "ZooAmerica".

Included in his plans was a site along Spring Creek that would be suitable for a leisure park for Hershey employees.

[3][4][7] The festivities included a baseball game, in which Hershey defeated the Crescent Club of Harrisburg by a score of 13–1.

[6][16] Music was performed by the recently formed Hershey Band and other events were held on park grounds.

[citation needed] The park added its first roller coaster in 1923, the Wild Cat, for the town of Hershey's twentieth anniversary,[17] which operated until 1945.

In the summer of 2020, Hersheypark opened a new themed area called Hershey's Chocolatetown, which included a new entrance plaza, ice cream parlor, flagship retail store, and a Bolliger & Mabillard hyper coaster named Candymonium.

A casual sit-down restaurant called Hersheypark Place (formerly Tudor Grill) is located just outside the park.

A Chickie and Pete's Crab House restaurant and a frozen yogurt stand were added for the 2014 season.

It is smoke-free, as ZooAmerica houses "more than 200 animals from five regions of North America" and offers tours, birthday parties, and informational programs at varying costs, even having their own individual seasonal pass.

From there, it becomes Founder's Way, which leads to a junction where three sections – Kissing Tower Hill, The Hollow and Pioneer Frontier – meet and make up the central and southern end of the park, while two sections, Midway America and The Boardwalk, make up the northern end of the park.

[30] It features Candymonium, a Bolliger & Mabillard hypercoaster; the Chocolatier themed restaurant, bar, and patio; the Sweeterie confectionery kitchen; as well as a 10,000 square foot flagship boutique store, Hersheypark Supply Co, Milton's Ice Cream Parlor, a 2,200-square-foot Starbucks store and a kettle corn location that is the largest in Hersheypark.

The project cost an estimated $150 million making this the largest capital expense in the park's history.

Along with the expansion, Hershey announced plans to introduce a new entrance to the park, which will lead directly to the new section.

[38] All three locations as well as the Hersheypark Supply Co. main gift shop are open year-round even when the park is closed.

Now a few buildings from Rhineland still remain, including a few gift shops, the now-empty former station of the Sky Ride, Nathan's, and Dispatch Pizzeria Express.

Going into the main circle of the area is a statue of Milton S. Hershey and a surrounding fountain, which honors the chocolate maker and founder of the park.

It is from this area that guests can access The Hollow, Pioneer Frontier, and a bridge leading to Kissing Tower Hill.

The park's first water ride, the Mill Chute installed in 1929, was alongside the creek where Great Bear runs today.

The original location for the bumper cars, then called the Auto Skooters, is now the SooperDooperLooper Sandwich Stop.

A Streco turnpike ride was located underneath the high bridge that crossed Spring Creek to Minetown.

Before SooperDooperLooper came to Comet Hollow in 1977, a Himalaya ride was in that location, and before that, twin Eli Bridge Ferris wheels.

Beginning with the 2012 season and renovations being done to this area, the famous chocolate smell that was used in building materials was dampened due to concerns about safety.

Until the start of the 2014 season, this area of the park had been called Minetown, which had been officially opened in 1990 with the additions of Convoy, Red Baron, Flying Falcon and Dinosaur-Go-Round.

The section features many classic Hersheypark attractions, including the Sunoco Twin Turnpike, Coal Cracker flume ride, Kissing Tower and Great Bear.

The Overlook Food Court Restaurant is a cafeteria-style place, and for many years was the only area in the park where alcohol was served.

It also includes the Frontier Flyers, The Howler, Mini Scrambler, Livery Stables, and Red Baron.

However, the southern end of the section was expanded at this time, encompassing the Pirate (swinging ship), The Claw, and the Dry Gulch Railroad, all rezoned from Music Box Way.

The section also has Music Express, Merry Derry Dip Fun Slides, Ferris Wheel and three kiddies rides: Granny Bugs, Pony Parade, and Tiny Tracks.

For the 2018 season, Hersheypark announced that two new water attractions would be in this area: Breaker's Edge, a hydro-magnetic coaster slide that also counts as the park's 14th coaster, and Whitecap Racer, the longest mat racer slide in the world which features two sets of twisting enclosed tubes.

Capital Area Transit provides direct access to/from Harrisburg with its HP bus during the summer season.