6-10-2024 4:50am

TREK THE TRAIL

Jeff Barto Editor

Enjoy the Ice Cream Trail

Maryland’s Best program is kicking off the 2024 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail with new additions to the trail, new prizes for participants, and of course ice cream! Now in its twelfth year, the Ice Cream Trail is designed to promote the state’s dairy industry and has become increasingly popular. It’s a great way to spend time with family and friends – how many locations can you make it to this summer?

WIN PRIZES

Check in online on Instagram or Facebook at any creamery, post a picture, tag Maryland’s Best, @mdsbest (IG) or @mdsbestag (FB), and be entered to win an ice cream cone squishy each week! One check-in per location per family.

NEW!! In partnership with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and AllTrails, check out a hiking trail near each location!

Use AllTrails to navigate your hike and easily share your adventure on social! AllTrails helps people discover and navigate trails in their neighborhoods and around the world while staying prepared, informed, and ready for the trails.

For an additional entry to win each week, take a photo of your hike, and tag @mdsbest/@mdsbestag, and @MarylandDNR to enter. Anyone who visits all 11 trailheads and submits photos to our email, icecream.trail1@maryland.gov, will be entered to win a free annual State Park Pass or a one-year free subscription to AllTrails+!

WIN THE ULTIMATE PRIZE

Do you have what it takes to be Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trailblazer Champion?? Visit every location on the trail, and take a photo at each stop. When you have visited all 11 (Moo Cow Creamery is a bonus location!), email the photos to icecream.trail1@maryland.gov by September 10. You will be entered to win a $50 gift card to a creamery of your choice. The winner will also receive a copy of the children’s book “Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish,” and the 2024 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Champion Trailblazer trophy. One lucky winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to the on-farm creamery of their choice, a copy of the children’s book “Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish,” and the 2024 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Champion Trailblazer trophy.

MARYLAND ICE CREAM TRAIL STOPS

Broom’s Bloom Dairy

1700 S. Fountain Green Road (MD 543) Bel Air, MD 21015

bbdairy.com

Phone: 410-399-COWS (2697)

Chesapeake Bay Farms Inc.

Chesapeake Bay Farms

8905 Logtown Road, Berlin, MD 21811

supportlocalcows.com; Phone: 410-629-1997

4111 Whitesburg Road Pocomoke, MD 21851

Phone: 443-373-8487

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Deliteful Dairy

16320 Long Delite Lane, Williamsport, MD 21795

delitefuldairy.com; Phone: 301-223-0032

Happy Cow Creamery

8728 Dollyhyde Rd, Union Bridge, MD 21791

creameryathappycow.wixsite.com/happycowcreamerygran; Phone: 301-829-9996

Keyes Creamery

Keyes Creamery

7349 Hopewell Road, Churchville, MD 21028

keyescreamery.com ; Phone: 443-619-4975

Lockbriar Farms

10051 Woorton Rd, Chestertown, MD 21620

www.lockbriarfarms.com; Phone: 410-778-9112

Misty Meadows Farm Creamery

Misty Meadows Creamery

14325 Misty Meadow Road, Smithsburg, MD 21783

mistymeadowsfarmcreamery.com ; Phone: 301-824-2112

Moo Cow Creamery @ Walnut Ridge Farm

3935 Bussard Road, Middleton, MD 21769

www.moocowcreameryllc.com; Phone: 240-549-9183

Prigel Family Creamery

4852 Long Green Road, Glen Arm, MD 21057

prigelfamilycreamery.com ; Phone: 410-510-7488

Rocky Point Creamery

4323 Tuscarora Road, Tuscarora, MD 21790

rockypointcreamery.com; Phone: 301-874-5810

South Mountain Creamery

8305 Bolivar Road, Middletown, MD 21769

southmountaincreamery.com; Phone: 301-371-8565

South Mountain Ice Cream Shop

50 Citizen’s Way, Suite 101, Frederick, MD 21701

Phone: 301-383-8790

Woodbourne Dairy at Rock Hill Orchard

Woodbourne Creamery at Rockhill Orchard

28600 Ridge Road, Mt. Airy, MD, 21771

rockhillorchard.com; Phone: 301-831-7427

BEYOND THE CONE

Maryland dairy farms offer a wide variety of products in addition to ice cream. For example, In 2022, Maryland’s dairy industry produced more than 876 million pounds of milk and generated over $157 million in sales (USDA NASS, 2023). You can also find plenty of cheeses from cows to goats and also yogurts! Below is a list of farms and products that sell direct to consumers. Check them out and for more information visit marylandsbest.net.