Gannon's Ice Cream

Their soft ice cream is great, but the reason to come here is for the hard ice cream. My favorites include Crazy Coffee, Kahlua Fudge, Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, and Orange Pineapple. These flavors have so many goodies in them they're sundaes in themselves. If you decide to forget about counting calories for the day and try the turtle sundae (perhaps with crazy coffee ice cream), you may well conclude that this is the best place in Syracuse to come for dessert on a warm summer evening. Although you can order at outside windows, if you have children with you, go inside the building to take in the fun murals.

This corner of Valley Drive and Seneca Turnpike in the historic Valley area of Syracuse New York has had an ice cream stand here since at least the 1950s. Originally Arctic Island sold ice cream out of small shack with a large ice cream cone on top. That shack is now gone and Arctic Island took its large cone and move down the street to Midland and Seneca Turnpike. Gannon's Isles took over the corner at Valley Drive and Seneca Turnpike. Eventually Gannon's grew into the adjacent buildings and set up the homemade ice cream factory. They have served some of the best ice cream in the Syracuse area for many years now. They have a wide range of all the Frozen Dairy treat you come to expect from a full service ice cream stand and parlor. They also have ice cream cakes, quarts and pints of their homemade ice cream, and made to order ice cream treats for a special occasion. It was unfortunate that their expansion to downtown Syracuse closed for it was great for the people working downtown to have this treat that you normally have to travel to the Deep Southside of Syracuse's Valley area. But if you are driving through this area of town it's worth the stop to grab a cone or other ice cream treats. The comic art on the walls of living ice cream cones is also a colorful display fun for both kids and adults to view and appreciate.