Best Ice Cream Parlor in Every State, According to Yelp

At Lenoes’ Creamery in South Dakota’s Black Hills, all ice creams are handmade with high-quality ingredients. Popular flavors include Spearfish Valley rhubarb, blackberry lemon, and vegan coconut toasted almond with blueberry jam.

This Tennessee dairy farm serves homemade ice cream at five locations throughout the state, including one in downtown Knoxville. Their Jersey cows are on pasture 365 days per year and the milk, which is not homogenized, is turned into stunning ice cream in flavors including sweet cream, chocolate-strawberry, and brown butter.

An old-school walk-up window identified by its giant ice cream cone sign, Connie’s serves their super-creamy frozen custard in cones, sundaes, shakes, and banana splits, but do as the locals do and order a super-thick concrete, in flavors like Texas Tornado (vanilla custard blended with fresh strawberries and melted chocolate) and Choc-O-Rocko (chocolate custard blended with roasted almonds and marshmallow cream).

Famous for its hand-churned, small-batch ice creams, Blacksmith Ice Cream creates ice cream in creative seasonal flavors including coconut mango sticky rice, lemon poppy seed swirled with lemon bars, and sweet cream ice cream swirled with Lucky Charms marshmallows.

There’s no need to be shy when ordering at Shy Guy Gelato, which was founded by a local Vermonter who perfected his recipe while working at restaurants in Italy. They rotate through more than 200 gelato flavors, but favorites include stracciatella, Choco-Palooza, raspberry crème fraîche, and fior di latte.