Ice cream shops in the Mission were busy on Thursday evening, and they are likely to be busy again today! Here is where to get your fix. Photo by Brendan Luu.

In 2017, the Mission had 12 ice cream vendors in its 1.5 square miles. Two have closed since then, but we still have a whopping 10 ice cream shops in the Mission.

It’s likely you can visit all of them over the course of this heatwave. But if you want some background on where most get their base, we have some reading for you and some videos that we did early on.

Here’s a list of where to get ice cream in the Mission:

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Clara-Sophia Daly is an award-winning journalist who covers immigration for Mission Local. Previously, she reported for the Miami Herald, where she covered education and worked on the investigative team. She graduated with honors from Skidmore College, where she studied International Affairs and Media/Film, and later earned a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School.

Her reporting portfolio includes investigations into a gymnastics coach who abused his students for more than a decade — work that led to his arrest.

She also covered the privatization of Florida’s public education system, state-funded anti-abortion pregnancy centers, and the deputization of university police officers under federal immigration programs.

A Bay Area native, she first joined Mission Local as an intern for a year during the pandemic — and is excited to be back writing stories about immigration.

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