Ohio Ice Cream Shops - 22+ places to visit in 2023

Looking for a sweet treat? There are several unique Ohio Ice Cream Shops just waiting for you! Read on to learn more about 22 Ohio ice cream shops to visit!

Visit some Delicious Ohio Ice Cream Shops

When it comes to Ohio and Ice Cream, it is a match made in dessert heaven! In fact, Ohio does ice cream very well. Ohio is home to several major ice cream brands including Handels, Jenis, Velvet Ice Cream and Graeters. 

Visiting Ohio Ice Cream Shops is a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth. In fact, Ohio has it’s very own ice cream trail! Now that sounds like fun! We did include some frozen custard places in our list as well!

Map of Ohio Ice Cream Shops

Ohio Ice Cream Shops to Visit

Young’s Jersey Dairy - 6880 Springfield Xenia Rd, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Phone | Website | Facebook. Young’s Dairy is a HUGELY popular place in central Ohio. It has an ice cream shop, cheese store, restaurant and entertainment. You can spend all day here!

Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl - 532 McIntire Ave, Zanesville, OH 43701. Phone | Website | Facebook. Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl has been serving the community for over 70 years! Tom’s is a great place to grab lunch AND some delicious ice cream. You can find sundaes, ice cream cake rolls and more!

Hartzler Family Dairy -  5454 Cleveland Rd, Wooster, OH 44691. Phone | Website | Facebook. The Hartzler Ice Cream Shop is a family-oriented place. It has retail offerings, indoor and outdoor seating as well as two playgrounds.

Taggarts Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant - 1401 Fulton Road NW, Canton, OH 44703. Phone | Website | Facebook. When you step foot into Taggarts you will instantly feel teleported back in time!  Enjoy classic favorites as well as other food on their menu.

Mason Creamery - 4401 Bridge Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113. Phone | Website | Instagram. This creamery specializes in small batches of ice cream using quality ingredients.

Mitchell’s Homemade - Mitchell’s Homemade has several locations, but its flagship location is 1867 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113. Phone | Website | Facebook. - Mitchell’s Homemade uses ingredients from nearby local farmers.

Miller's Creamery - Miller's Creamery has 3 locations! Their first shop opened 19 years ago! This family business features homemade sherbert as one of its MANY specialties. Locations: 1706 E High Ave, New Phila, Ohio 44663. Phone | Website | Facebook. (Walk-up window open April- September). 2nd location - 211 W 3rd street- Dover Ohio 44622. Phone | Website | Facebook (Open year around with dine-in). Third location - 105 w Jackson Street, Millersburg, Ohio 44654. Phone | Website | Facebook (Open year around with dine-in).

Pav’s Creamery - 3769 Manchester Rd, Akron OH 44319. Phone | Website | Facebook. Pav’s has four locations, but the Akron location uses the old-fashioned Soeder Sons Batch machines.  This location is open seasonally.

Aglamesis Ice Cream Shop - 3046 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209. Phone | Website | Facebook. Aglamesis makes rich, premium ice creams. They have been creating ice cream for well over a century.

Toft’s Dairy & Ice Cream -  3717 Venice Rd, Sandusky, Ohio 44870. Phone | Website | Facebook. This ice cream parlor started from a small family dairy farm and has transitioned into a large operation. The menu here is BIG. You can find all the traditional ice cream flavors plus unique ones! Shakes, malts, flurries, sundaes, they have it all!

Whip-n-Dip - 4840 OH-534, Geneva-On-The-Lake, Ohio, 44041. Phone | Website | Facebook. Open during the warmer months and closes during the cooler months. Perfect old-style type of ice cream place!

Jubie’s Creamery - Has two locations, the Fairborn location is the original - 471 W. Dayton Yellow Springs Rd, Fairborn, Ohio 45324. Phone | Website | Facebook. Love the story behind Jubie’s Creamery. It started with the purchase of a long abandoned building and a dream to make the best ice cream.

Cockeye Creamery - 1805 ½, Parkman Rd., Warren, Ohio 44485. Phone | Website | Facebook. This creamery has delicious and unique flavors like honey-lavender, sweet corn and sorghum, and buttermilk pie.

Dietsch Brothers Ice Cream -  400 W Main Cross St, Findlay, Ohio 45840. Phone | Website | Facebook. There are two locations for Dietsch Brother Ice Cream. They are considered a landmark in Findlay Ohio. If you have food allergies, they have a very clear and lengthy list of allergens in products on their website.

Emma’s Frosty Kreme -  5707 Beaver Pike, Beaver, Ohio 45613. Phone | Website | Facebook. Emma’s is another great small-town feeling ice cream place.

Pure Heaven Ice Cream Shop - 408 Ray St N, Baltic, OH 43804. Phone | Website | Facebook. Pure Heaven is a delicious newer addition to our list. Be sure to check out their Facebook page for their flavors of the week! I've got my eye on Cotton Candy with a twist of Blue Vanilla!

Lil e’s Ice Cream - Formerly located at 461 W Main St, Plain City Ohio 43064. Facebook. The family are currently in the process of moving locations, so keep up to date with them on Facebook for the latest "scoop". We will also keep updated as much as we can!

Stricklands - Stricklands has several locations, you can see which one is close to you, here. They are mostly in Northern Ohio. Stricklands was founded in 1936 and in 2002 started to offer franchises. Website

Brown’s Dairy Dock - 705 West Main Street, Marblehead, Ohio 43440. Phone | Website | Facebook. This family-owned business is open seasonally and provides delicious soft serve flavors.

Falls Ice Cream - Another reader favorite, write in! What caught our eye is that they offer up specialty ice cream such as low sugar and non-dairy options! 8094 Columbia Rd, Olmsted Falls, OH 44138. Phone | Website | Facebook.

Country Parlour Ice Cream - This ice cream shop is known for its old-fashioned texture and flavor! You won't be disappointed with this reader favorite! - 12905 York Delta Drive Ste C North Royalton, OH 44133. Phone | Website | Facebook.

Rosati’s Frozen Custard - 98 E. Aurora Rd, Northfield Center, Ohio. Phone | Website | Facebook. Rosati’s is open seasonally. You can get classics like shakes, malts, sundaes, and more! 

The Pinecone Ice Cream Shop - This is located at the Maria Gardens North Royalton location! The best of both worlds: plants and ice cream! This is another reader favorite and write in! 10301 West 130th St. North Royalton, OH 44133. Phone | Website | Facebook.

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams - Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has many locations throughout Ohio and also ships nationwide! Jeni’s is on a mission to make ice cream better and bring people together! They believe in community. They are known for the deliciously unique flavors of ice cream. Website | Facebook.

Graeter’s Ice Cream - Just like Jeni’s, Graeters has many many locations throughout the state of Ohio! As well as surrounding states. To see all the Graeter’s Ice Cream locations, visit here. Graeter’s Ice Cream also ships nationwide!  Website | Facebook.

Velvet Ice Cream Factory - 11324 Mt Vernon Rd., Utica, OH 43080. Phone | Website | Facebook. This ice cream shop is currently closed for the season, however the Facebook page hints that they are ready and raring to go for May 2023!

Handel’s Ice Cream and Yogurt - Handel’s has multiple locations throughout the state of Ohio. A huge draw is not only the mouth-watering ice cream choices, but the choices of cones. They have traditional cake cones, sugar cones, waffle cones, and waffle bowls. Website | Facebook

Honey Hut - Honey Hut has several locations throughout Ohio. The original Honey Hut opened back in 1974 and has been a favorite of Ohioans ever since! Honey Hut was a reader write-in and favorite! Website | Facebook

Z's Cream and Bean - This ice cream shop opened in 2010 with the mission to create the creamiest ice cream. With some trial and error, the task was a success. They are known for their creamy vanilla bean ice cream! 2706 Boston Rd, Hinckley, OH 44233. Phone | Website

What is Ohio’s favorite ice cream? 

In a recent survey of the buckeye state, it was found that Ohio likes chocolate chip ice cream the best. Our initial guess would have been the “buckeye flavor” since we are the Buckeye State!

Ice Cream at Home

If you cannot make it to one of Ohio’s Ice Cream Shops you can still enjoy ice cream at home. Of course, you can order it from one of the many ice cream shops listed above or you can make some ice cream at home! You can easily make your favorite flavors like Rocky Road Ice Cream, Dairy Free Banana Ice Cream, and BubbleGum Ice Cream at home. 

Let's go get some ice cream in Ohio!

Have you visited any of these Ohio ice cream shops? We would love to hear about your experience! Did you miss including your favorite Ohio ice cream shop on the list? If so, drop us a comment and let us know! We would be happy to add it!

Want to check out more eating-places in Ohio? You might like to take a look at Hocking Hills Diner, situated in Logan, Ohio. Or Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea in Dublin, where you can also get snacks. Also in Dublin is Cap City Diner.