15th Annual Long Island Ice Cream Tours are Set to Share Long Island’s Best Ice Creams

• LIICT stops at only “homemade” and family-owned ice cream shops
• Tours cover all of Long Island
• Each tour is a day of fun, sun, and sweetness

LONG ISLAND, NY – JUNE 2025 – Long Island Ice Cream Tours (LIICT), now in its 15th year, will again this summer tour Long Island, sampling the sweetness of fresh, homemade ice cream. There are two tours scheduled; LIICT East and LIICT West, covering their respective parts of Long Island. Each tour will include six or seven locally-owned ice cream shops. Participants provide their own transportation throughout each tour. Each day lasts six to seven hours, sampling from the shops on Long Island that make their ice cream on their premises.

Think of it as a bar crawl, but no one ever got arrested for trying a lot of ice cream.

The first tour of summer 2025 will be LIICT East, to be held on Sunday, July 20 (National Ice Cream Day). Starting at 10:00am, the tour will travel and sample the creamy goodness at ice cream shops throughout Suffolk County. It begins at Snowflake Ice Cream Shoppe in Riverhead, and includes stops at McNulty’s Ice Cream Parlor, Mia’s Ice Cream Kitchen (with their “Walken freezers”), Coyle’s Homemade Ice Cream (at their main Bay Shore location), Mann’s Homemade Ice Cream (new this year), and Old Fashioned Ice Cream Shoppe.

LIICT West will take place on Saturday, August 9, beginning at 10:00am. The tour will start at LICS Ice Cream in Northport, and includes stops at Alkemy (made-to-order in front of us), Gelateria dei Colteli (old-world authentic gelato), Hildebrandt’s (another great place for ice cream and food), Smusht (an ice cream sandwich shop), and Sweet Treats by the Wharf (on the water in Port Washington).

A ticket and registration are required for all participants for each tour (adults and children). We’ll be covering the events with pictures and video, from regular cameras and drones, and sharing them on our website.

“Since 2020, we’ve welcomed nearly 100 people joining us on each tour. This delicious trek provides a fun way to meet friends, old and new, while sampling the best homemade ice cream across Long Island. Most participants continue to attend year after year”, stated LIICT co-founder Jeff Noreman, of Port Jefferson, New York. 

Registration includes an official LIICT tour shirt — which entitles participants to special discounts — and many of the shops offer special flavors or creations for the day. All shops on LIICT are locally-owned and create their ice cream (and gelato) on-premise. This unique event also helps the local economy by supporting fellow Long Island businesses and their families. We also support research on brain cancer prevention and cures, a cause near and dear to our family.

In past years, these sweet and fun tours have been covered by local media including newspapers, magazines, cable news, network broadcast news, and online.

Click here to purchase tickets for our 2025 tours. Get LIICT’d with us.