The shaved ice here starts with fresh cane sugar and is made by hand, and the flavor people keep coming back for is the sno cream, a house-made creamy version reviewers single out again and again. It is a small walk-up window in Edwards Forest Plaza on Wade Hampton, an old-school stand with a few umbrellas out front to sit under while your cone melts. Cash only, and open just for the warm stretch of the year, roughly April into late August.
Past the sno cream there are more than sixty flavors to work through, all made in house, from cotton candy and blue raspberry to cherry cola and mango, priced low enough that a whole carful of kids will not dent your wallet. It has been a Taylors fixture since 1987 and has stayed family-run the whole way, which is why you will spot grandparents, parents, and kids standing in the same line. That is what makes it a summer-evening ritual for so many Upstate families: bring the kids, cool off from the heat, and spend almost nothing doing it.