Wells Visitor Center & Ice Cream Parlor — Restaurant in Le Mars

I love ice cream. This place, however, is overrated. The prices, for a simple ice cream cone, were excessive, especially for a family. The upstairs exhibits would have been improved if the video screens were working and the photo booth was working, but none of it was. The volume on the historical video was too low; the other screens weren't working at all.

We ended up sharing the sampler, as it was the only thing we could reasonably afford. To purchase cones for our entire family would have cost over $28. I can buy a lot of pints/half gallons for that!

The building itself is cute, and attractive on the inside. There's a soda fountain counter where you can eat your ice cream, or at a table on the first or second floor. The second floor has some small historical exhibits, videos (when they are working), old ice cream memorabilia, and former Blue Bunny promotional products and logos. Don't go out of your way to go here. If you happen to be in town, you might enjoy it. Otherwise, I'd say skip this...

Blue Bunny isn't all that badd. It's pretty good for ice cream. The selection isn't huge but what they do make they make it well. The only thing I would disagree with is that lamars is pretty far from my house so I have to really be in the mood for ice cream. That means I have to wait until my family says they want to go get ice cream for me to have to drive to lamars to go get ice cream. I'm sure there is some heavy Christian overtones and the phene of the place but every time I go there I feel like I'm inside the movie set of that who is that kid from growing pains in all the one that made the movies Left Behind in stuff like that and hes really big in a telling people not to believe in science? You know who I'm talking about I can't think of his name right now because it's really early in the morning and I'm driving to work. But either way I just feel as though that you know aside from the weird vibe but I get when I walk in there made its...

Two words - Lemon Meringue Float! Oh... that's three. Sorry I'm in a heavenly sugar coma. Staring at the rows of delicious flavours, it's almost easy to bypass this delicious treat. I think it took the young man longer to construct the float than it did for me to finish it. Seriously, you won't be disappointed.

Unfortunately, the museum above the shop was still closed due to Covid, but I did get a few fun facts at the entrance.

La Mars was named the Ice Cream Capital of the world in 1994, producing more ice cream than anywhere else annually.

Wells Ice Cream is home to the Blue Bunny and Halo brands and uses enough ice cream sticks in its products each year to stretch from New York to San Francisco twice. The specially designed South Plant Freezer in La Mars is 12 stories high, and the 200 million gallons of ice cream produced each year could fill 5 Olympic-sized swimming pools every week of the year.

Now you know. Go eat...