The Beach Bucket

From the minute I stepped in, I was hooked. My mouth salivated as I could hardly walk to the ice cream. There are so many varieties of fudge in the place! I had the root beer float… yum! But ice cream is «Sherman» and it is never a let down. How about the wood carving dude outside. So cool! I will definitely be back to this place. Definitely.

Nothing complicated good service, good ice cream, and friendly smiles. After a long day at the dunes it is the cheery on top.

This places is small but the man who runs it, not sure if he owns it was such a wonderful man! He started giving us samples of everything so we got to taste almost every flavor. They even have a maple bacon flavor that is really good! I will come back here next summer for sure! They close Tuesday for the season and the prices are a little less than the other local shops! Delicious homemade waffle cones too!

When we arrived at The Beach Bucket there were at least 20 people in front of us. They have to have one of the bigger varieties of hard-​service ice cream outside of going directly to a dairy. Sherman’s ice cream is good, but it’s definitely not the best on the market.
The thing that absolutely sold me was the smell of the fresh-​made waffle cones that hit me immediately upon walking in the door. Add a fresh made waffle cone to a healthy portion of fresh ice cream and you’ve got a winning combination. Combine that with a still somewhat warm waffle cone on a pretty hot day and you’ve now got a sprint to win the battle royale with your cone. I won! it was well worth it and I’d do it again!
The service was very good and I’d definitely recommend stopping by. Next time I’ll ask for a cone that was made a couple minutes ago, not a couple seconds ago though.

We just indulged in this delicious ice cream after a hot day at the Dunes. What a treat ! The variety of flavors was immense and each one was unique and well made. Chocolate covered pretzel was awesome ! Great service too. Highly recommend!

The staff was friendly and let me try a few flavors before I decided. The biggest downside, and «fail» as far as I’m concerned, from a customer service standpoint: their smallest size cup is for children only… adults must pay extra for «the smallest size for adults»…which is far too much ice cream for those of us who aren’t looking to join the rest of America on the obese fast track.
The masses love Sherman ice cream… it’s not bad, but it isn’t great either… nothing special at all really. I’m sure many ice cream shops in Michigan serve it because it’s local.
Depending on your viewpoint, their location is either the best (if you own Beach Bucket) or the worst (if you want ice cream on a nice Saturday)…DIRECTLY across from the Warren Dunes entrance on Red Arrow. Because of this they should do well, just not with any more contributions from me.

Great place. Friendly people and the ice cream was the best. Directly across from Warren Dunes State Park. We missed it and had to turn around but it was definitely worth it!