Cookie Mountain

Cookie Mountain is an attraction that has been at Sesame Place since opening day in 1980.

 Image from YouTube

Sesame Place describes it as:

Why settle for “King of the Mountain” when you can be the “King of Cookie Mountain?” Cheer along your kids as they try to scale this impressive, bright-blue vinyl cone that seems to reach the sky. Watch the all-out effort as they climb, slip and slide their way to the top. And, back down again. (All participants must be 44 inches and under.)


In the early days the vinyl material was a reddish orange color. Today it is in Cookie Monster's more traditional blue color.

Image from Google Street Views

1992 News Article: Park's Theme is Education

Here is an article about the park from 1992. At this point the park had been open for 12 years. It's interesting to note that this was in the Milwaukee Journal, far away from Langhorne PA and appeared in September - just a month before the season ended.

Here are some of the facts from the article:

-Sesame Food Factory (referred to as Food Factory) was still open and still had a glass enclosed kitchen where guests could watch food being prepared. Today the restaurant is named Elmo's Eatery and the kitchen is still visible to guests, but without any glass.

-No fried food was sold at the park at this time. The fries were baked and flavored ices contained real fruit.

-Captain Ernie's Cafe (now called Captain Ernie's Bistro) was the only place to buy hamburgers.

-Rides mentioned are: Big Bird's Rambling River, The Count's Ballroom and Cookie Mountain.



The image is a bit difficult to understand, I can see the recycling can and the can of Minute Maid juice being deposited by what seems to be Oscar the Grouch. According to the article, posters above the trash cans featured Oscar showing how to separate trash from recyclables.

I have traced what looks like Oscar to me:

Do you see something different? Maybe this is a Sesame Place Rorschach test!