Kayleigh's Ice Cream is a brand new¹ ice cream shop on 129 in North Billerica². (There is also signage for "Hello! Tea" but that isn't currently a separate thing - it's just that Kayleigh's has fancy coffee drinks and bubble tea as well as ice cream.) Service is indoors; there are some inside tables, as well as a handful of outdoor picnic tables and a decent sized parking lot.

They didn't have a flavor menu for me to take pictures of - they just had two a pair of 8-bucket ice cream fridges, with the flavors written on the acyrlic cover in some sort of neon paint-pen, which was challenging to photograph. (They also had a pastry display.)

First Visit

I got Maple Walnut and Butter Pecan; the maple flavor came through more than most versions (most maple walnut is basically chocolate walnut, which is actually fine - but at Kayleigh's, the chocolate was good and the maple stood out, which was unusual.) The Butter Pecan was decent and had a nice texture too.

Next visit I'll probably try the "Billerica Rocky Road" (which is apparently snarky commentary on the local road quality) and possibly the "Best Chocolate You Never Have!!!".

Their website also credits Bliss Bros Dairy in Attleboro, MA as their upstream dairy source.

Two weeks after Labor Day and they are still staying open until 9pm - which was convenient for me, but they didn't have any other customers at 8:30pm so I wouldn't count on that persisting.

Sterling Ice Cream is on 62 just southeast of 190. It's a fairly large building but there's only really one or two ice cream windows; the other half of the overhang is for fried food and hotdogs, and the other half of the building is "Cafe Fresh Bagel" (which seems to be what has the drive-in service, not sure if you can get ice cream on that side - the bagel places closes at 2, so it's definitely a separate thing.) At least for the summer there's a huge tent with a dozen picnic benches; there's also a vast amount of parking. It's about half a mile from the Davis Mega Maze; it's also not far from Rota Spring Farm Ice Cream.

While tagging pictures, I discovered that this was not my first visit; I was there 11 years ago and had a soft serve dip cone - which seems to no longer be on the menu.¹

I got Monster Mash (lots of candy and cookies in a vanilla base) and Butter Pecan. The Monster Mash was ok, but not nearly as creamy as you find at most ice cream places around here; it may have just been the vanilla base, I should try their "Extreme Chocolate" for comparison. They also had a "Campfire S'mores" and a "Maine Black Bear" flavor.

This is also the second place I've seen listing "Ice Cream Nachos" - the other one was Friendly's who call it "Sugar Cone Nachos". (They also have frozen yogurt, sherbert, and coconut-milk-based "vegan" ice cream.)

Chelmsford Creamery is a little roadside ice cream shack with a huge parking lot, on 3A just south of I-495. (The internet being what it is, this was Gary's Ice Cream from 1973 to 2020 and searching still turns up pictures of the old place.) Counter service with an overhang, and plenty of picnic benches out front and around the lot.

First Visit

I had a bright yellow Butter Pecan, which had more of a buttery taste than I've had before; I made the mistake of having it on top of an Orange Sherbet (I was craving "creamsicle" after missing out on it at Cabot's and it was good - but combining them was a mistake on my part.)

They also had a good strawberry ice cream, with strawberry bits in it. Overall they had a pretty good range of "summer" flavors along with the traditional New England ones.

I do owe them a return visit to get an orange sherbet frappe, and also to try their "Chocolate Decadence" Flavor.