My Hometown Summer Activities Seasonal Bucket List: Five Ways to Spend Your Summer

by Colleen Onuffer

Summer is in full swing! Use this bucket list to enjoy some of the sunny season’s best activities around Rochester’s westside. Then share your favorite summer activity on our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/myhometownmag.

1. Scream for Ice Cream

•Scottsville’s iKON Ice-Cream has an extensive offering of custard flavor combinations and milkshake flavors, plus a long list of hard ice cream to choose from. But don’t stop there! Try their iKon Butterbeer, iced koffee, floats and boba/bubble tea. Your four-legged friend will also love iKon, with doggie delight sundaes on the menu.

•LuGia’s Ice Cream on Lyell Road in Spencerport has a long list of hard ice cream flavors and sundaes to choose from. Their unique novelties include ice cream tacos, ice cream cupcakes, spumoni roll and the Gia-Licious M&M Cookie Sandwich. Want LuGia’s to come to you?

LuGia’s On Wheels is the ultimate ice cream truck experience for your next party or event.

•Sprinkles Ice Cream on Chili Avenue in Chili offers over 25 flavors of Perry’s ice cream. Other tasty treats include sundaes, frozen custard in chocolate, vanilla and two other flavors that change weekly, plus three to four flavors of Italian ice. Multiple tables provide seating alongside the building.

•The Village Ice Cream Shop (VICS) in Spencerport proved so successful, that they opened a second location – Village Ice Cream Shop in North Chili (VICS INC) in 2022. Both VICS locations serve a long list of Gifford’s Ice Cream plus innovative (and delicious!) offerings such as waffle chip nachos. Sundaes come in 18 varieties – ranging from traditional hot fudge to unique options, like Fortnite and unicorn.

2. Cool Off at These Splash Pads

•Union Station Park and Sprayground in North Chili has a traditional playground alongside a splash pad with animal and flower features that douse water. It’s open daily through Labor Day and free for residents and non-residents. The park also has a small pavilion for shade, bathrooms and a walking trail.

•Two splash pads await at Pineway Ponds Park in Spencerport. The larger pad has ground sprays, dumping buckets and sprinklers to cool you down, while the classic splash pad has squirting sea creatures that kids will enjoy climbing on. Both areas are surrounded by picnic tables and shade-trees.

•In Brockport, Sweden Town Park’s splash pad has multiple moving parts that spray water, including dumping buckets and palm trees. Kids will have fun playing with the spinning ball sprinklers that create fun patterns with water. The splash pad is located in the rear of the park, near an accessible playground.

•Wild Over Water Zone at the Greece Town Hall is free for Greece residents and $5 per child per day for non-residents. The region’s largest municipal splash pad is zoo-themed, with dumping coconuts, spraying zebras and spritzing insects. A mini alligator slide and ground sprays keep the water splashing! It’s located next to the imaginative Kids Canyon Playground, which is free for everyone to enjoy.

3. Listen to Local Music at Community Concerts

•Part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage concert series, Spencerport “Music on the Canal” Concert Series happens on Sunday evenings at the gazebo on Amity Street. Concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. and are held weekly through August 27, rain or shine. The full music schedule is available at vil.spencerport. ny.us/vil/.

•Gates Recreation and Parks’ Summer Concert Series are held outside of Gates Town Hall every other Sunday evening starting continued on page 16