2019 Pursue Your Scoops Ice Cream Trails
Where To Find The Locally Made Ice Cream In PA
When we heard of this, it brought to mind the Donut Trail in Ohio, and we were excited about checking out the "trail". Unlike the donut trail however, it's not quite as easy to just bring a donut from each stop home... although with a cooler, it could possibly be done?
Unfortunately, the trails are just too long. To stop at each creamery on the trail, the driving time would not allow you to make it to all of them before they closed, unless there's a route I'm missing. So for those of us in Central PA - unless you are spending a couple of days in one of these areas, it's not really feasible. (To be fair, doing the donut trail in one day is sort of insane and near impossible too)
I went over the locations and routes, and mapped them all out on a google map you can see here: Google Map Of All the Stops
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There are three different passports, sorted by region. Download your passport, have it stamped at each location you visit. 5 locations on one trail will earn you a t-shirt, visiting all of the stops on a trail will win you a t-shirt and an ice cream bowl.
Complete your passport by Sept. 2, 2019
Find The Passport Here
Visit 5 stops to win a Pursuse Your Scoops T-shirt
Visit all 10 stops to win a Pursue Your Scoops T-shirt and Ice Cream Bowl
I mapped out a route from Watsontown PA to all of the creameries on the Eastern Trail. It's a minimum of 10 hours of driving time, which would not make it a very enjoyable day - that would not give you much time for ice cream! It would be better to split it into two trips, minimum - - the northern part, and the southern part. Even then, it's a LOT of driving. And 5 ice cream stops each time.
The nearest creamery on that list is an hour and 15 minutes away - The Lands At Hillside Farms. Creamworks Dairy In Waymart, the furthest north, is 2 hours away, and Chester Springs Creamery, the furthest to the south, is 2 hours and 30 minutes away.
The Green stops are the South Central Trail
The South Central Trail
Find The Passport Here
Visit 5 stops to win a Pursuse Your Scoops T-shirt
Visit all 13 stops to win a Pursue Your Scoops T-shirt and Ice Cream Bowl
This trail would also be 9-10 hours of driving in one day, from our area. You could split it up into west and east sections, but even that would be pretty near impossible, in two days. This trail goes so far east that it "overlaps" part of the eastern passport trail. There are 13 stops in this section, so in two days, you would have to do 6-7 stops in each day - a bit much for even the most die hard ice cream lover.
The closest stop is Halls Ice Cream in Millerstown, an hour and 6 minutes from Watsontown. Lapp Farm in New Holland is 2 hours away, to the south east. Windy Knoll 2 hours to the south west.
Western Trail Stops are in Orange
Find The Passport Here
Visit 5 stops to win a Pursue Your Scoops T-shirt
Visit all 13 stops to win a Pursue Your Scoops T-shirt and Ice Cream Bowl
This has the least number of stops - but the largest distance between stops. From The Penn State Creamery to Jackson Farms Dairy is nearly a 3 hour drive - and that's after the hour drive from our area to Penn State. From there, it's another hour north to the Windy Ridge Dairy. Visit all 13 stops to win a Pursue Your Scoops T-shirt and Ice Cream Bowl
So an ice cream road trip is probably not going to work for most of us... however, download the passports and put them in your glove compartment, and watch for the creameries in your travels this summer. Who knows how many you might get to before summers end! It only takes 5 stops on one trail to win a t-shirt, and I know that the creameries we have visited over the years have all been fantastic.
By the way - did you know you can get Penn State Berkey Creamery Ice Cream in Mifflinburg? DC Coffee And Tea (one of my favorite restaurants!) serves Berkey Creamery Ice Cream.
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