Long Island Ice Cream Tours (LIICT) is having our Sweet 16.
LIICT dates are set for Summer 2026
• LIICT stops at only family-owned and homemade ice cream shops
• Tours cover all of Long Island
• Each tour is a day of fun, sun, and sweetness
• Profits go to research for cures and treatment of brain cancer through the National Brain Tumor Society
LONG ISLAND, NY – MAY 2026 – Long Island Ice Cream Tours (LIICT), now in its 16th year, will again tour Long Island this summer, sampling the sweetness of fresh, homemade ice cream. There are again three tours scheduled; LIICT South, LIICT West and LIICT East, covering their respective parts of Long Island. Each tour will include five to seven locally-owned ice cream shops. Participants provide their own transportation throughout each tour. Each day lasts six to seven hours, sampling from the best 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 2026 will be LIICT South, to be held on Saturday, June 6. Starting at 10:00am, and travel along the south shore of Long Island. It begins at Ice Cream Cottage (a longtime favorite) in Mastic, and includes stops at Coyle’s Homemade Ice Cream (their new Islip location), Old Fashion Ice Cream Shoppe (with their “Friends” theme), Mann’s Homemade Ice Cream (second year on the tour), Checks and Bean Gelato Co. (yep, amazing gelato), and Marvel Frozen Dairy (their boardwalk location in Long Beach.)
LIICT West will take place on Sunday, July 19 (National Ice Cream Day). The tour will start at LICS Ice Cream in Northport at 10:00am, and then roll on to Alkemy (made-to-order in front of us), after which we head to our friends at Frozen Cow ices and Cream in Lido Beach, then Hildebrandt’s (a great place for ice cream and food), then Gelateria dei Colteli (old-world authentic gelato), and we finish at Smusht (in Port Washington, best homemade ice cream sandwiches),
The final tour of the summer of 2026 will be LIICT East, to be held on Saturday, August 8. Starting at 10:00am, the tour begins at Snowflake Ice Cream Shoppe in Riverhead, and includes stops at McNulty’s Ice Cream Parlor, 3 Sons Ice Cream (a new shop in Kings Park), Northport Sweet Shop (by the water in Northport), Ice Cream Social (in Commack, back on our tour), and Sweet Treats by the Wharf (great family-owned shop on the water in Port Washington).
Registration is 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 for you to relive your day(s) of fun.
“Since 2020, we’ve welcomed nearly 100 people joining us on each tour. We’ll be visiting exciting new shops as well as long-time fan favorites that have established themselves for decades on Long Island. Each 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 (or gelato) on-premise. This unique event also helps the local economy by supporting fellow Long Island businesses and their families. Our profits support research for brain cancer treatment and cures (a cause near and dear to our family) through the National Brain Tumor Society.
In past years, these sweet and fun tours have been covered by local media including a variety of newspapers ,magazines, cable news, network broadcast news, and online.
Click HERE to purchase tickets for all of our 2026 tours.