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Screams Ice Cream From Hell

30 08 2009

4045 Patterson Lake Road
Pinckney, MI 48169
(734) 878-2233
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Screams Ice Cream From Hell on Patterson Lake Road in Hell, Michigan.

Our trip to Hell had to include some sort of souvenir….and if we could get some ice cream while we were at it, why not? The original plan when we left Lansing was to stop at the Hell Country Store because I knew they had some sort of collectible that we could add to our shelf as a memento of our visit to Hell, but when we got there, we found the store closed. As we were eating lunch, we overheard a waitress telling another couple that the ice cream store had souvenirs.

Screams Ice Cream From Hell is one of three businesses along Patterson Lake Road in an unicorporated part of Livingston County known as Hell. The building has multiple uses. It’s an ice cream shop. It’s a souvenir stand and it’s a putt-putt golf course.

There are signs on the side of the building that work pretty well for picture taking. The big “Welcome to Hell” sign on the side was a pretty popular stop for the bikers who were in the area. Of course, J and I did the same. There’s also some of those wooden pictures with a hole cut out for the head where you can stick yours through. All of them say “I’m a L’il Devil From Hell.” Yup, we did that too. The putt-putt course is behind the building. It’s nothing super special, but something else to do if you just don’t want to leave. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dam Site Inn

29 08 2009

4095 Patterson Lake Road
Pinckney, MI 48169
(734) 878-9300
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No Online Menu

The Dam Site Inn in Hell, MI

I made a lot of people happy today. I can’t tell you how many times in my life I’ve been told, “Go to hell.” Today, I did. Sure, it was just Hell, MI, but I can still tell all those people who have given me that order over the years that I’ve been to Hell and back…and it was fun.

J and I were stuck on Travel Channel’s “Extreme” shows last weekend. During the “Extreme Roadside Attractions” I was reintroduced to Hell, MI. I say reintroduced not because I’ve ever been there, but it was something I had heard about while I was growing up in Illinois.

For many years, my brother and I delivered papers. We lived in a small community and the daily newspaper in the area wasn’t huge. One really hot day, the paper lead with the headline “It’s Hotter Than Hell (Michigan, That Is).” We got a ton of phone calls from angry customers that thought it was inappropriate and yelled at us like we had something to do with content. That’s the only newspaper headline I think I’ll ever remember word-for-word.

So, J and I finally got to sleep in and we took advantage of it. It was a little after noon before I stumbled into the living room already really hungry. We figured out that Hell wasn’t all that far away and it would be fun just to say we’ve been there. Since they had a bar/restaurant, we could make that a reason to go.

The Dam Site Inn is on Patterson Lake Road in what is technically considered Pinckney. Hell is actually an unincorporated part of Livingston County. For USPS purposes, they have a Pinckney address and zip code. Read the rest of this entry »