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Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail leads to some cold spots
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If you're going to be driving through Maryland this summer, you may want to try to cover some of the new Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail.
Announced last week, the trail is a collection of seven dairies that make and serve their own ice cream on site. To promote eating local and the state's $183-million dairy industry, Maryland's Department of Agriculture is providing a map brochure for ice cream lovers to find the seven cold spots.
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Visitors can pick up an Ice Cream Trailblazer Passport at any of the creameries (and at marylandsbest.net). Have your passport "stamped" at each creamery between now and Sept. 7 and you can submit it to the ag department to be entered in a drawing for prize pack including a $50 creamery gift certificate, a documentary DVD on "The Maryland Harvest," and "Dishing Up Maryland" cookbook.
The state says that the trail, which also has a geocaching feature, is the first in the country to link ice cream-making farms.
But there are other ice cream trails. You can get a copy of Connecticut's "Sundae Drives" brochure at mystic.org/icecreamtrail, which highlights unusual flavors you can find including, at the Hallmark Drive-In in Old Lyme, a cherry vanilla one called "Hockey Fight," made with "white chocolate chunks as teeth and shredded Bing cherries as blood."
First Published June 24, 2012 12:00 am
