Great Brook Farm State Park

This ice cream stand I heard about since the place was shut down by the Department of Conservation and Recreation back in May for unauthorized construction for about a week.  That's when I got a shot at this place.  Low and behold, there are some flavers worth checking out, including the Red Velvet Cake flaver.  This is my second time, actually, the first being earlier this year a couple of weeks after it was closed by the state with that "closed until further notice" sign on the door.

Listed as one of the five top ice cream stands in the state (the others being Kimball Farms, Rota Springs Farm, Bedford Farms and Jay Gee's Ice Cream), this place includes hiking trails for me to burn off these calories aten at this ice cream stand.  The trails here are actually a big circle with smaller loops along the way.  There's a trail in nearby residents that they can take that connects to the Great Brook Farm that's worth taking, although they are closed during the winter ski season.

To the left of the ice cream stand, they are cows and other animals to look at, as a cage of rabbits on the way into the ice cream stand.  They also offer tours on how the farm is run, including seeing the cows and how they milk them.  They now have tables inside as well as a big screen TV showing farm videos on it.

There's another place down there that's a pavillian, which I believe can hold birthday parties and private events down there.  Ironically, if you want to head to the rest room after you eat ice cream there, you have to walk from the stand to the pavillion.  There's also a field that you can relax at and places where you can jump your horses (though, I'm not skilled enough at that), that are numbered here.

The ice cream I ordered included my key flaver, red velvet cake; as well as pumpkin and coconut cheesecake brownie.  This red velvet cake ice cream actually has red velvet chunks in it, while the cheesecake brownie combination make this flaver bold out.  The pumpkin ice cream is there for the fall, so that's what I ordered.

Now, I didn't pay attention to the toppings, but they should have red velvet chips and coconut toppings that could go together well with the coconut flavers here.  But since they are so many flavers here, maybe I can come back here in a few weeks (perhaps after Kimball closes it's ice cream stand for the winter (Lame, Kimball, You have a country store, why don't you just narrow the flavers down to the best selling flavers of the season and sell it during the winter).  But on the other hand, this place also closes down in october.  Man, you have indoor seating.  Why can't you sell ice cream during the winter?...

Well, anyways, within the next few weeks, I've got Jim's ice cream barn to try and Jay Gee's ice cream to challange the Mt. Washington sundae.