Maple View Farm Country Store

This is me and my family’s favorite ice cream place! The ice cream has local milk from a cow farm they have across the street. They have so many flavors.
I JUST LOVE THIS PLACE

Alright, so the sun wasn’t exactly shining but, Wow! What a view! The ice cream itself was well worth the drive — butter pecan, cookies and cream, mint chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie dough and praline — all amazing.

I would never return to this place for ice cream. It was nothing that I thought it would be from the views that I read.

Too scenic for words. Rolling hills, black and white cows in the distance, rocking chair front porch… and delicious ice cream. The ice cream is great, tons of flavors, but the view really sets this place apart.

Living in NYC I’m kind of limited to store bought ice cream. You know, like the type you buy from your questionable neighborhood bodega that may or may not be expired and is teeming with freezer burn?
Well, when my cousin suggested we drive out to a farm to eat ice cream I was excited mostly because I haven’t seen a lot of grass or open space for some time and had minimal expectations for the ice cream, since you know ice cream is ice cream.
DELICIOUS. Really enjoyed the ice cream here. Creamy and NO freezer burn! Yipee! Had the fresh homemade waffle cone, which was soft and chewy (used to hard and… hard) and a nice complement to the ice cream.
Only sad part was that it was cold and windy that day so sitting on the porch was not as enjoyable as it could have. We ended up sitting on the picnic benches trying to soak up some sun.

The ice cream is so delicious and creamy :) The scoops are HUGE! Very long lines on a beautiful saturday, but service was still pretty speedy!

Just went here Sunday, 4÷17÷16 (had not been in years). They were short staffed, waited an hour in line that was out to the parking lot. I have always loved this place, just hit it on a bad day. Poor guy was cranking out the waffle cones so fast they weren’t really cooked and crispy! Ice cream was good as always, just couldn’t find the cookies, in my cookies and cream :/​Be prepared to wait if you go in season!
**Need more outside seating!

As a kid I used to bike 13 hilly, calorie crushing miles just to get to Maple View… only to sit on the front porch in a rocking chair and destroy a pint of butter pecan and a pint of chocolate milk. It is still one of the tastiest ice-​cream spots around and If you know of a more beautiful place to enjoy a cup or cone, please fill me in.

The line is long… but the ice cream is so good! I’ll be making several visits this summer!

Really great place to stop for some ice cream on a warm sunny day. Lots of comfortable seating available. They have a lot of flavors to choose from so good luck finding 1 or 2 to pick. We waited in line for like 10 – 15 minutes but it was reasonable given the time of year and how tasty the ice cream was. Worth coming back to.

Ice cream is pretty good but I probably wouldn’t drive all the way here just for that. Nice, relaxing views on the drive here.

This is a large but fairly standard ice-​cream stand — but what sets it apart is the huge veranda and the view across the field. You can see cows and countryside while eating your ice cream in a rocking chair on the porch.
The ice cream and toppings aren’t that special, but this is a local destination — it’s not in town, but because of the atmosphere, it’s often mobbed.
I did enjoy a hot-​fudge sundae with their milk-​chocolate hot fudge — they have both regular and milk-​chocolate varieties.

Eat Ice Cream on a farm. This is an ice cream joint. No fancy bells or whistles, just cases of ice cream to choose from and boy are there plenty of flavors! The drive out to Maple View Farm is amazing on bright afternoon. You get to see beautiful North Carolina! After you get your heaping scoop of delicious ice creams in a delicious waffle cone, you can rock around in a chair on the porch enjoying the view of picturesque farm land.
The folks here are friendly and there literally is a flavor for everyone here. It can be a bit overwhelming but you literally cannot lose. Highly recommend!

I’ve been trying to make it out to Maple View Creamery for a while now and finally got the chance on a Saturday around 8pm recently. I was shocked to see a line all the way through the store to the back door! Man, people really like their ice cream in the Triangle or/​and this must be damn good ice cream! The store front is cute, with lots of picnic tables, rocking chairs on the front porch, space for kids, games and even kite flying. The store itself is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, although the dairy has farmland and a ecological center close by (I want to do a field trip here!)
Inside you’ll find an old fashioned country store, the majority of which has ice chests along the far wall chalk full of LOTS of ice cream flavors. They also sell eggs, milk, cheese and a handful of other dairy products along with the occasional local beauty product or in-​season nut. If you visit on a weekend expect: long lines, LOTS of children, teens and pre-​teens; families welcome! Park in the lot attached to the shop or across the street in front of the fields. I tried the Carolina crunch on my visit (their play on a candy bar ice cream) and it was good, but only just. It only had one chuck of Butterfinger in my two scoops, which was a little disappointing. I think I’d change flavors next time. Overall, this makes for a fun stop, but I won’t go out of my way to go back. I’d recommend making it a detour when you’re already headed in that direction. Also, since Treat recently opened in Raleigh (selling Maple View Farm ice cream) there might not even be a need to visit the creamery. Although, I will say, sitting on the picnic tables on a Saturday evening as the sun was setting across the cornfields was very romantic and sweet (ice cream sweet!) — as long as your don’t mind all the children running by and playing [Second Rod O’s comment: very children of the corn feel!]. I put the complete experience at 3.5 stars, rounding down to because it was A-​OK!

No questions asked, Maple View Farm is easily the best ice cream I’ve ever had. The fact that you could see the cows that made the milk while you eat the ice cream is a testament to just how fresh it is.
You may be in the boonies with no cell phone reception for a five mile radius but the ice cream is $ 3.85/pint to take home and you can purchase fresh milk (even chocolate!) in glass bottles or a pound of butter to accompany it. The line was just about out the door but the prize at the end of the wait will make you forget all about it.
There were two absolutely perfect moments on this weekend trip to Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas… moments that captured everything I believe to be «Carolina» and all that’s good in the South (and perhaps a contributing factor to why I’m marrying a Southern gentleman). One was listening to live bluegrass on the Front Porch at the Carolina Inn while drinking blueberry moonshine. The second was eating Carolina praline and coffee ice creams covered in hot fudge while sitting with my honey in rocking chairs, watching the sun set over corn fields with the cows coming home in the background.

Yet another Chapel Hill classic. All the ice cream from this place is locally sourced, hence the expanses of farmland surrounding the place.
OK, honestly, if you want superb and cutting edge ice cream flavors, go to Ben & Jerry’s on Franklin St. The flavors here for the most part are pretty basic. They do have a couple of interesting ones, such as Carolina Crunch (chocolatey caramel type), another Duke flavor (candy bar type), pistachio, and a few other innovative ones. With that being said, the ice cream that they do have is DELICIOUS. Honestly, any flavor that they have is a good choice. My last time here though, I decided to go with the Unilocal majority and get the cookie dough. I was disappointed though and wished I’d sampled it beforehand. There wasn’t a lot of actual cookie dough in it, and the base they used is a super buttery base that almost tastes like cake batter ice cream. I’m not a fan of cake batter ice cream, so that was a little surprising.
In reality, don’t come here for the ice cream itself. Come here for the experience. The ambiance here is stellar. You’ve never had a North Carolina experience unless you’ve sat on the porch rocking in a rocking chair, enjoying some pretty good local ice cream, talking with your friends, and watching the sunset off in the farmland horizon. On Saturdays during the summer, there’s always a lot of activity with people throwing frisbees, kids running around, and people lounging out on towels (although the line is kinda long then). The landscape here is spectacular, and it’s nice to see that there’s a popular place in North Carolina that can still capture that charm. It’s the Maple View experience that reminds you to take a step back and appreciate the little things in life.

Neither would I say I love it or like it. I find myself somewhere lost in the middle. Their flavors sound really interesting but somehow I felt it lacked the wow factor. I had 4 scoops of different flavors on the same evening … Yes … 4 scoops. So I can talk .
Carolina crunch and pistachio had subtle hint of flavors but somehow felt a bit more earthy. Well that may be psychological .
Their blackberry and blueberry flavors are worth a shot since they literally grind the flavors with their ice cream to give you the natural flavor.
The ambience does need a mention. Deck overlooking a farm is really nice…
Bottom line: Ice creams that lack the wow factor.

Love everything about this place from the ice cream to the atmosphere of this place. This country store is located in the middle of no where, literally between fields and pastures. It’s a very peaceful place with lots of outdoor seating, including rocking chairs, benches, and lots of grass. I would recommend going at sunset because there is such a beautiful view. Watching the sun go down and eating ice cream with your friends = awesomeness.

We decided to combine a bike ride with the reward of fresh ice cream at the end this past weekend. We started the hour-​long bike ride at the Mapleview country store, turned right past the store, then did a loop to end back at the store. As others have mentioned, parking is tight within the primary parking lot, but they’ve opened up a parking lot on the right side next to the field and a lot of people parallel park on the street.
The bike ride: it’s all road biking and there is a narrow bike lane, but there aren’t many cars around (most will move to the other side of the road to pass you because there aren’t many oncoming cars) which made the whole ride pretty peaceful. There are several ways to loop around, and we decided to avoid the gravel road and stick to the paved roads, which was mostly out in the open passing by fields with cows and bales of hay, and partly in the shade. Rocky Ridge road itself was the most crowded and difficult to maneuver because of all the cars lining up to get to Mapleview’s country store.
Once we finished the bike ride we dropped into the store to get in line for the ice cream! My neighbor comes here and just buys a pint of ice cream from the freezer to avoid the long lines. Since they had multiple staff serving ice cream we didn’t mind the wait, which turned out to only be about 5 minutes. We ordered 2 scoops – 1 of the piña colada and one of the rocky ridge road ice cream for $ 3.50. Our server was awesome and gave us an extra sugar cone for free!
There weren’t any rocking chairs left on the porch so we sat inside where it was slightly cooler anyways. We almost couldn’t finish the 2 scoops — the portions are humongous! The rocky ridge ice cream didn’t have as many goodies/​chunks as I would’ve liked, but otherwise tasted fine. All in all it’s the freshest ice cream I’ve had in NC – fluffy and creamy at the same time and not at all icy.

There is one con: there will be a line, no doubt about it.
Local homemade ice cream, cheap and Muy deliciouso! There is a huge field where you can sit and relax while looking over the countryside, really pretty at sunset. They also have rocking chairs on the porch. This place is awesome!