Who says you can’t have ice cream for dinner? When the weather calls for it, I think it’s a great idea! When I was a kid growing up in Baldwinville and Templeton in the 1970s – 1980s, we had some favorite local ice cream spots. Lee’s Hot Dog Stand, Templeton Country Store, Calico & Creme, Hunter Farm, and Murdock Farm immediately come to mind.
I’ve assembled a list of locally owned ice cream spots throughout Central Mass. We live dangerously close to Rota Spring in Sterling and I just love their Maine Blueberry ice cream.
Pictured above is our granddaughter Nixie, who lives in New Zealand and below is one of my favorite photos of our youngest three kids, taken in approximately 2004. All of them approve of ice cream for dinner!
Baldwinville
Lee’s Hot Dog Stand
Barre
Stone Cow Brewery
Clinton
The Fountain
Gardner
Maddy’s Ice Cream and More Ice Cream Truck
Pop’s Sweet-Harts Ice Cream Truck
Holden
Goodhile’s Ice Cream
Meola’s
Lancaster
Kimball Farm
Locations in Lancaster, Carlisle and Westford and Jaffrey, NH
Lunenburg
Cherry Hill Ice Cream
Conrad’s Ice Cream
Summa Madness Ice Cream Truck
Orange
Topsy’s
Phillipston
Red Apple Farm
Rutland
East View Farm
Lilac Hedge Farm
Still Four Corners
Sterling
Meola’s Wayside Ice Cream
Rota Spring Farm
Templeton
Izzie’s Ice Cream
The Kitchen Garden
Westminster
Kay’s Dairy Bar
The Vice
West Boylston
Froze Zone
Meola’s
Pinecroft Dairy
Winchendon
Lickety Splitz
Murdock Farm & Dairy Bar
Am I missing anything in this RESOURCE STORY? Please message me with any info you have, so I can always keep my CENTRAL MASS RESOURCE STORIES as current and relevant as possible!
