Hershey, Pennsylvania: the chocolate capitol of the USA
A trip to Hershey, especially if you have children or just a grown up sweet tooth, is like visiting the fabled chocolate factory in the children’s story - but this one is an actual town, with a real factory, where you can go and see how chocolates are made while tasting samples to your heart’s content. One of the most popular pastimes for visitors is to take a tour of the Hershey facilities, which are fascinating for children and adults alike. Just watching the process of melting, pouring, shaping, decorating, and packaging hundreds of millions of bites of chocolate per day is enough to entertain anyone, and you will walk away with as many sweet treats as you would score on a really busy and lucrative Halloween trick or treat outing.
You can go to the Hershey’s Chocolate World exhibit, see the largest Candy Kiss in the world, or relax in the Chocolate Spa, where Cuban style body work and therapy is available to pamper you all day long. For less food-oriented activities you can play 18 holes of golf on the town’s excellent courses, visit a 10-acre wildlife zoo, or tour the historic and picturesque downtown. Hershey is considered one of the most desirable small cities to live in, and if it grows on you and you like the idea of smelling chocolate scented breezes all year ’round, you might check out the local real estate market with a view toward moving to the candy bar community