Carolina Cones

Step back in time at this Main Street Cornelius icon. Carolina Cones has been here for decades and for good reason: it's everyone's favorite locally owned scoop shop! Two counters with red soda shop stools, colorful vintage booths, and outdoor umbrella tables provide plenty of seating. Your favorites are here: cookie dough, mint chocolate chip, and butter pecan just to name a few. But they also serve up hot mini doughnuts, shakes, sundaes, soft serve, boats, and even Starbucks coffee. The prices are so reasonable. About $4 for a generous double scoop in a sugar cone. They even have an adjacent garden center with seasonal plants that are different than Lowes or Home Depot. I always come here for spring flowers. Lots of cute vintage toy vending machines give the kids somewhere fun to spend their allowance quarters on fake tattoos and mood rings. An old train track runs on the ceiling here - IYKYK - and I hope it never comes down. Pro tip: don't miss the playground on the side of the building for after that sugar rush hits. Thanks, Carolina Cones, for staying true to your roots and giving us the perfect scoop shop to bring our out of town visitors looking to meet the real NC. The nostalgia is real.

Excellent ambience and a wide variety of any flavour ice cream you could ever want! Prices are very reasonable compared with other places.

Just cute is all I can say. Old fashioned ice cream that floods you with nostalgia.

Lots of flavors and huge scoops. It's clean and simple as it should be since it's about the ice cream and not much else.

It's great for the family with plenty of outdoor seating - tables with umbrellas- a deck with ample seating and park benches here there and everywhere. It offers rides and a few other attractions for the little ones.

My chocolate raspberry was rich and delish in a old fashioned chocolate dipped cone.

Be sure to check out the train riding the train up above- nice touch!

Love their options! My kids play outside for a while after finishing their ice cream.

Great little ice cream place in this little town. Nice decor inside and out. Place was packed and bustling with customers. Too many flavors of ice creams and toppings to choose from. I went with simple raspberry truffle and a birthday cake scoop each. Both flavors were on point. Since we are here for a few days visiting relatives we will be coming here for to try more flavors

Great little shop just a few miles down the road, bummer that they're closed through the bitter Carolina winters because it's just that good and sufficiently large to accommodate vast crowds of ice cream aficionados in the most inclement of weathers without crowding.
The typical assortment of sundaes are available to satisfy almost every taste or you can mess things up by asking for a custom creation. cups and cones can be had in at least five sizes and with a variety of toppings (including jimmies and pineapple) and bottomings (including cake and waffle cones)
In good weather the play area outside has amusements for little people to work off their excess energy and hopefully leave them to tired to scream for more ice cream (as if...) inside is a clever train that circles the dining room continuously to my great pleasure.

I came here last week, and unfortunately the garden center was closed . Guess it's too hot to garden, LOL . Ended up going inside, and was greeted with great service by Max and Will! The coconut almond joy was my favorite. Definitely coming back .

Cute local joint! Treated my son and myself to ice cream after his lacrosse practice one, hot Saturday. Ample parking available. The outside looks fun the with big ice cream cone, playground, gazebo, etc. The inside is exactly what you would expect your local ice cream shop to look like! Plenty of indoor and outdoor seating.

CC has a wide selection of ice cream flavors, including seasonal flavors. I ordered cotton candy and my son ordered a scoop of cotton candy and a scoop of some type of colorful rainbow flavor that I don't remember the name of. The texture was nice and creamy and flavor was on point. Prices are affordable, too! Although the staff was young, they were pleasant and helpful!

I'm a board eleven year old and this place is good,my chocolate milkshake was amazing,my annoying sister said her ice cream was good and there's a little wall devoted to little vending machines.

there was also a train tracks going around the ceiling with a train on it.I recommend it

Nice, clean, well lit ice cream shop. Prices aren't bad. Ice cream is good. But where is the chocolate soft serve? Very hard to find chocolate soft serve in this area. Not sure why...