The Cone

West Chester, Ohio, United States

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The Cone is a soft-serve ice cream shop at 6855 Tylersville Road in West Chester, Ohio, in a building shaped like a giant ice cream cone. The building was brought from Florida and the shop opened there in July 1995.

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Site-level location · 39.3571° N, 84.3962° W

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A giant ice cream cone sits beside Tylersville Road in West Chester, Ohio, and it came from Florida.

The business began in 1973 as a small store, K&W Creamy Whip, in the Lockland-Reading area north of Cincinnati, founded by Ken and Louella Wren. Their son, the previous owner, writes on the shop's history page that the family wanted something different for a new store in West Chester and found it in Florida, where his parents spotted a cone building for sale while on vacation. The family drove down the next week to buy it and haul it back to Ohio. The page dates the construction to 1993 and says there were many delays because of the unusual undertaking, and The Cone opened on its new site in July 1995.

The shop's history page, written by the previous owners, calls an orange and vanilla swirl its best-selling flavour and says it uses the same recipe as in 1973; footlong cheese coneys are the other long-standing favourite. Over the years the family added outdoor tables under an awning, kiddie rides, an arcade game room (completed in 2010), a double-lane drive-thru in 2007 and a Mobile Cone trailer that is also cone-shaped.

The Wren family put the business up for sale in 2024 after more than 50 years. According to The Cone's history page, it was sold in February 2025 to new owners, and WKRC reported in April 2025 that the shop was starting its season under them.

The shop is seasonal: its fall 2026 hours are 2pm to 9pm Tuesday to Thursday, and it is closed on Mondays.

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Soft-serve shop in a cone-shaped building, with outdoor tables, kiddie rides and a drive-thru, according to the shop's history. The operator lists fall 2026 hours of Tuesday to Thursday 2pm to 9pm, Friday 2pm to 9:30pm, Saturday noon to 9:30pm, Sunday noon to 9pm, closed Monday. The shop is seasonal.

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A public ice cream business at 6855 Tylersville Road, West Chester, Ohio, open seasonally on the operator's posted hours and closed Mondays in fall. Check thecone.com for the closing date.

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