Hershey - Harrisburg , PA Area
AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
Host Hotel: Country Inn & Suites Harrisburg, NE- Hershey
8000 Jonestown Rd
Harrisburg, PA 17112
Room rate is $135.00 plus tax Breakfast included.
Registration Deadline: August 15,2025
Registration Form Click Link >>> Registration Form Fall Meet 2025
Friday August 29, 2025
Registration in hotel hospitality room
Dinner on your own – list of area restaurants will be provided at registration
Saturday August 30, 2025
Breakfast at hotel
Lake Tobias Animal Park Laketobias.com
Line up at hotel to travel to Lake Tobias Animal Park in Halifax, Pa
Approx. 35 min drive from hotel
Safari Tour – Load open air buses for safari tour. Meet and greet animals UP CLOSE. Animal food available for purchase. (Group will be given a time to meet to ride safari tour together).
Explore the zoo – Acres of zebras, lions, reptiles, giraffes, monkeys, birds, etc.
Lunch – Food and Snacks are available at the park or stop at a nearby restaurant on your way home.
Note: Zoo provides free golf cart rides to various parts of the park if walking is a challenge.
Tours run rain or shine so be prepared in case of bad weather.
Back to hotel to prepare for banquet.
Banquet
Line up at hotel to drive to Hershey Region Lodge
Approx. 10 min from hotel – plenty of parking
Delicious buffet meal catered by Lisa’s Café
Door prizes, 50/50 raffle, 2nd Annual Scat Pack Smack Down Trivia game
Frank Wilson Slide Show
Door Prizes: Don’t forget to search those garages, barns , closets and basements to find some treasures everyone else would love to have!!
Sunday August 31, 2025
Breakfast at hotel
Church Service at hotel
Line up to drive to Hershey Region Lodge
Approx 10 min from hotel
Business Meeting at 10:00 am at Hershey Region Lodge.
America Transportation Experience/AACA Museum AACAmuseum.org/
Walk or drive across parking lot to museum
Tour museum on your own
Many interesting displays, Automobiles, motorcycles, buses, and model trains, auto memorabilia, and the world’s largest collection of Tuckers.
Special display: Tailgate Travelers – Classic Station Wagons
Lunch
Head back to the Hershey Region Lodge
Join us for Subs, salads, chips and drinks.
Afternoon
On your own
Explore “The Sweetest Place on Earth”
Chocolate World – Take a free simulated ride and learn how they make chocolate, other chocolate attractions available, but best of all- buy a few delicious souvenirs to take home.
The Hershey Story – The Museum on Chocolate Avenue is devoted to the history and legacy of Milton S. Hershey and the chocolate candy confections he invented.
Hershey Gardens – 23-acre botanical garden, butterfly atrium, and arboretum located at 170 Hotel Road, Hershey. They are set atop a hill overlooking Hersheypark.
Tröegs Independent Brewery – Take a Guided Production Tour (Voted Best Brewery Tour by readers of USA Today), grab a beer and some snacks (Rosemary popcorn is amazing!)
Tanger Outlets – Outdoor shopping-mall featuring 37 brand-name & designer outlet stores.
King Kone Creamery (across the street from the museum) Drive-thru or eat in ice cream parlor serving a huge selection of soft and hard ice cream, plus sundaes.
And many more options to fill your afternoon
Pizza Party
Dean and Jeane Oellig have generously offered to open their home for our pizza party.
Approx 4 miles from the hotel.
Pizza, salad, and drinks
Please bring chairs!
Monday Sept 1, 2025
Breakfast at the hotel
Check out
Head home or take an extra day to explore the area.
Schedule
Hotel Information
We will be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn located just off the Hogan Road exit on the north end of town. The address is 250 Haskell Rd, Bangor, ME 04401. We have a block of 40 rooms for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. 20 of those rooms have also been held at the group rate for Thursday and Monday nights. Members can call the hotel directly at 207-262-0099 and mention the Northeast Hemi Owners Association. They can also book online here. If booking online enter “NEHOA” in the Group Code box. That should bring up the group rate of $109/night for a double queen room or king room. The rooms will be held until August 20th.
About The Meet
With the official Memorial Day weekend 2021 meet in Rhode Island postponed again due to COVID, and the “unofficial” meet in New York now in the books, it’s time to look ahead to the Labor Day meet in Maine. There are two sides of Maine—the picturesque rocky coastline, and the seemingly endless lush forests of interior Maine, which are peppered with small towns. From Bangor, we can experience both.
Compared to other meets, the drive to and from Bangor will be a considerable distance for many of us. Saturday will be an on-your-own day, and I expect many of us to check out Acadia National Park, which is 50 miles southeast of Bangor. On Sunday, we will drive to Greenville, which sits at the southern tip of Moosehead Lake 70 miles northwest of Bangor. Most of the roads are two-lane. Due to the harsh winters, they take quite a beating, so rough sections are the norm. Furthermore, summer is road construction season, and often entire sections of the two-lane roads are ripped up for repairs. It is not uncommon to encounter rough, unpaved roads while repairs are being made. Please keep this in mind while deciding which vehicle to bring.
We are hearing that many folks are planning vacations around this meet, and we think that is a fantastic idea! Please do your homework and try to decide ahead of time what you want to see and do while you are there. Don’t forget your GPSs, but I must warn you that we have encountered areas where a GPS won’t work. If you have a map or atlas, bring it too. If you have a good camera, bring it! There is much to see and to photograph.
