Cool down with a sweet treat along Pennsylvania’s Scooped Ice Cream Trail.
This summer, Pennsylvania’s official Scooped Ice Cream Trail celebrates its ninth year. For nearly a decade, the ice cream trail has lifted up standout scoop shops and creameries making incredible frozen treats. After all, Pennsylvania ranks third in the country for ice cream production.
Several of the nearly 60 ice cream spots on the trail can be found in the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania. These ice cream destinations—which include farms and craft ice cream makers—offer one of the sweetest ways to cool down from the summer heat.
Plus, by logging your visits in the ice cream trail’s digital passport through early September, you can earn cool swag—like a branded insulated bag for making a purchase at six stops. Visit and make a purchase at 10 stops, and you’ll earn an entry to win an ice-cream-themed vacation.
We’ve rounded up the official trail stops in the Lehigh Valley and NEPA. Spend the rest of your summer sampling your way through them!
Pennsylvania Ice Cream Trail stops in the Lehigh Valley
Batch Microcreamery – Center Valley (Lehigh County)
Batch Microcreamery is an artisan ice cream maker crafting small-batch ice cream on site. If you can’t decide between the shop’s dozens of flavors, including classics like dulce de leche and cookies and cream as well as rotating seasonal offerings, you can order a flight of four ice creams—just like at your other favorite craft producer. The menu also includes sundaes, milkshakes, and treats like ice cream sandwiches and even ice cream nachos (ice cream scoops served with waffle chips).
Batch’s ice cream trail shop is located in Center Valley at Promenade Saucon Valley. The store is also offering a special 10% discount exclusive to the ice cream trail.
Crystal Spring Farm – Schnecksville (Lehigh County)
Lehigh County’s Crystal Spring Farm, located roughly 10 miles from Allentown, is a fifth-generation, family-owned farm that’s been making its own ice cream for the past 50 years. Today, Crystal Spring makes about 10,000 gallons of ice cream each year.
You can try some of that ice cream at the farm’s own ice cream parlor, which is open year-round (with an ice cream patio open in June, July, and August). The classic ice creams are made on location with fresh Crystal Spring milk and cream, and the full menu includes hand-dipped ice cream, soft serve, milkshakes, sundaes, ice cream floats, and the fan favorite banana split. Sundae toppings are also made in-house—plus you can add farm-fresh whipped cream!
Flint Hill Farm Educational Center – Coopersburg (Lehigh County)
Flint Hill Farm Educational Center is an educational farm in Lehigh County that makes its own ice cream with milk from its seven lovable dairy cows. At the store, ice cream is pre-scooped, but your treat comes with a cone or a spoon so you can enjoy it right away, ideally on the farm store patio.
Visitors can grab other farm-fresh products from the farm store, like milk, yogurt, bread, eggs, and more. You can also schedule a farm tour to meet the animals, sign your kids up for summer camp at Flint Hill, take farm classes like cheesemaking, bread baking, and felting, or even book an overnight stay at the farmhouse!
Klein Farms Dairy and Creamery – Easton (Northampton County)
Klein Farms Dairy and Creamery is a third-generation dairy farm in Forks Township, just north of Easton in the Lehigh Valley. The farm has been in operation since 1935—nearly 100 years. Klein Farms’ homemade ice cream business is called Happy Holstein Ice Cream, which serves its tasty ice cream creations right on the farm.
Happy Holstein makes more than 20 from-scratch ice cream flavors, like a classic strawberry, an artisan pistachio, the creative maple walnut wonder, plus seasonal selections. You can also pick up other farm-fresh products at the shop, including milk, cheese, and even Pennsylvania maple syrup.
Pennsylvania Ice Cream Trail stops in NEPA
Manning Farm Dairy – Multiple Lackawanna County locations
Manning Farm Dairy has several locations on the Scooped Ice Cream Trail—five to be exact! Each of Manning Farm Dairy’s Lackawanna County storefronts counts as its own official trail stop. (That means if you visit and make a purchase at every Manning Farm Dairy location, you’ll be 83% of the way to earning the trail’s insulated bag.)
Manning Farm Dairy isn’t just its retail stores, however—it’s a family dairy farm in Dalton, now operated by the fourth generation, that’s been producing its own ice cream for more than a century. Everything that goes into Manning Farm Dairy’s ice cream happens on the farm, including the crops that the cows eat.
You can, of course, buy scoops from the farm and the dairy stores, but you can also grab ice cream cakes and ice cream pies perfect for special occasions, like getting through a Tuesday.
Manning Farm Dairy has a trail stop each in Dalton (the main farm), Clarks Summit, and Dunmore, plus two in Scranton.
The Lands at Hillside Farms – Shavertown (Luzerne County)
The Lands at Hillside Farms is a historic nonprofit dairy farm with a mission to educate the community in healthy living, sustainability, and local agriculture. In addition to farm classes and workshops as well as farm therapy programs for children, the Lands demonstrates the deliciousness of locally made goods at its ice cream parlor, which features artisan ice cream made right on the farm.
You can grab pints as well as cones and bowls of delectable ice cream at the dairy store, in addition to other farm products like milk, butter, and cheese. Plus, you can feel extra good about eating ice cream from the Lands at Hillside Farms—the farm is Certified Animal Welfare Approved by independent farm certification program A Greener World.
