How to Park for Free at Hershey Park, Hershey Stadium or Giant Center

$10 is a lot of money to waste on parking. Let's face it, there is no need to pay if you are willing to walk a few blocks and don't mind a shuttle bus.

Simply use the free street parking that is available around town deep in the neighborhoods and either walk or ride your bicycle to the Hershey Museum. Watch the street signs because some streets have only 2 hour parking. Behind and to the right of the Hershey Museum you can walk across an enclosed overpass walkway. Once across you can wait for the free shuttle bus that operates when Hershey Park and Hershey Museum is open. It will take you to Hershey Park. The shuttle hours vary so make sure you find out what they are so you can plan your return. You can walk to the park too. Either use the overpass walkway or the Park Avenue Bridge and follow the asphalt path from there. Once you arrive at Chocolate World you can walk to the Stadium or the Giant Center quite easily. See map for details.

The Shuttle bus is free for visitors of Chocolate World and the Hershey Museum. It costs nothing to be a visitor at the Museum gift shop and Chocolate World. In fact, the Chocolate World ride is free and they give you free candy samples at the end. Might as well enjoy the air conditioning while you are there. After you "visit" you can continue on to the Giant Center or Stadium and do what you need to do.

Here is a link to this Google Map.



While riding the shuttle bus this may not be a good time to give a lecture on the evils of indulging on sugar, lack of exercise and childhood morbid obesity. Trust me, this won't be a receptive crowd.

Derry Township, Hershey, PA Municipal Public Park Locations Map

For anyone that is wondering where the public parks are in Derry Township and Hershey, PA click on the icons on this Google Map:

Boathouse Park	Brookside Park	Bullfrog Valley Pond
Cocoa Castle	Founders Park	Gelder Park
Koons Park	Palmdale Park	Shank Park
Union Deposit Ball Fields

You may click on this Google Map Link for easier use of this map.

Old Holy Trinity Cemetery - Eldersburg, Maryland

This brings me back to my preblog life. Years ago I became interested in old Episcopal cemeteries, simply because I liked the stories the Episcopalians wrote on their tombstones. Since there was no Internet at the time I made some phone calls. I ended up talking to this guy named Jim Purman who took care of some strange abandoned odd cemetery in the plasticified burbs west of the city. He put me on a mailing list and for years I've been getting paper biannual newsletters about the Old Holy Trinity Cemetery in Eldersburg, MD mailed to my home address. I've read every single word of the newsletters and feel I know everything that is going on with the place but I never took the time to figure out where it was. I went to the official website of the Holy Trinity Cemetery but there wasn't a map, only poorly written directions. Then I went to Google and stared at the aerial imagery for hours and finally located this lost little cemetery behind a strip mall. I figured the least I could do for these folks is make them a little Google maps so people can find it.

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Leakin Park Gwynns Falls Trail Map -Baltimore, Maryland

Here are some hike and bike trail maps for Leakin Park and most of the Gwynns Falls Trail that will work nicely with your GPS, Garmin or Smartphone. The first one is in Everytrail which will work with your iPhone, Garmin handheld GPS unit and is also downloadable in gpx and kml (Google Earth) file formats if you want to download the file for use with your Garmin, Magellan or DeLorme mapping software. The second is in Google Maps and you may use it on your Droid, Garmin Windows Mobile or Blackberry by saving it to your Google Maps "My Maps" or use the Send-to feature for Garmin. These maps should be to help bikers, hikers and geocachers. They were made by my knowledge of this park and by tracing another trail map.

Here it is in Everytrail, click on the title link and it will take you there on the Internet.
Leakin Park Gwynns Fall Trail Mapx - Baltimore, Maryland at EveryTrail


Here it is in Google Maps, click on the link at the bottom and it will take you Google Maps on the Internet.

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For those of you who enjoy history you might want to check out my GPS-friendly Ghosts of Leakin Park site.

For those interested in learning more about the bodies that have been left in the park you may visit the Bodies of Leakin Park site.

Savage Park Trail Map, Howard County, Maryland

Here is a trail map I have created for Savage Park. The Everytrail version is great if want to transfer the trails to your handheld GPS such as Garmin, Magellan or Delorme, as it is downloadable in gpx and kml (Google Earth) file formats. The Everytrail version also works very well with your iPhone with an easy Send-To feature. Below that map you will see the same map in Google Maps that can be utilized with your Android, Windows Mobile, Garmin and Blackberry devices by adding it your Google Maps "My Maps". These maps are great for hiking, biking and geocaching.

Here is the EveryTrail version. Just click on the title link and it will take you there.
Savage Park Trail Map for you in gpx at EveryTrail



Here is the Google Maps version, click on the link if you need to use it:

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