{"id":165289,"date":"2026-03-16T18:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:57:29","slug":"fewer-dairy-queen-locations-make-free-cone-day-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165289\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Dairy Queen Locations Make Free Cone Day Challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, there is such thing as &#8220;Free Cone Day&#8221;. This is a day when you can go to the local Dairy Queen, and they will provide you with a free small vanilla cone. Yes, free. No joke.<\/p>\n<p>However, for most of us in <a href=\"https:\/\/kicks105.com\/tags\/Deep-East-Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deep East Texas<\/a>, seeing this day come up each year, it&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;salt-in-the-wound&#8221; moment. The reason for this is fairly simple&#8230;We no longer have a Dairy Queen in each town, or even within a quick commute.<\/p>\n<p>Free Cone Day is March 19th<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dairyqueen.com\/en-us\/free-cone-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dairy Queen website<\/a>, Free Cone Day is happening on Thursday, March 19th. During this time, all you have to do is show up to your local Dairy Queen &#8211; if you have one &#8211; and you get a free small cone.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, no strings attached. Each person gets one free small cone, as long as supplies last. Pretty simple, right?<\/p>\n<p>Where Can Deep East Texans Go to Participate in Free Cone Day?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, lots of the Dairy Queen locations in Deep East Texas closed down for several reasons. We won&#8217;t get into all that. What I will say is that due to all of the closures, it severely limited the ability to get Dairy Queen without having to travel to a different place.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/q1077.com\/peanut-shack-nostalgia-nacogdoches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Remember the Peanut Shack? I Do, And I Still Miss It<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By my count, there are only a handful of Dairy Queen location in the Deep East Texas region &#8211; and I&#8217;m counting Deep East Texas as being in one of these counties: Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>The ones I&#8217;ve found are in the cities of Center, Crockett, Livingston, Newton and Trinity. So, if you&#8217;re looking to celebrate Free Cone Day in Deep East Texas, you&#8217;ll have to make it to one of these locations. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll just have to do without&#8230;Happy Free Cone Day, everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>11 Most Popular Dairy Queen Blizzard Flavors<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves a DQ blizzard, here are the most popular blizzard flavors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/billyjenkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those of you who don&#8217;t know, there is such thing as &#8220;Free Cone Day&#8221;. This is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-165289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}