Hilmar Cheese Company Visitor Center

Amazing stop! The educational aspect of how cheese is made is displayed in a great exhibit, and there is also a video.

Great little Cafe inside, as well as cheeses and other dairy and farm-themed items...

Highly recommend, it's worth a drive if you're not going right by!

Fun place to go. Thry have ice cream making on Saturday. Book ahead of time. The Cafe is yummy.

This is a great place to take the family to learn all about how dairies work and how cheese is made. They have great exhibits throughout the building that are Hands-On. They even offer ice cream making tours on weekends. Huge variety of cheeses available for purchase as well as all you can eat samples! Plus, the factory cafe offers great sandwiches and crazy good pizzas all using their freshly made cheese. Don't miss this place and beautiful grounds.

My family and I always have an enjoyable experience at Hilmar Cheese. Everything they serve is very tasty and high quality food. The employees are friendly and the visitors center is beautiful,inside and out, spacious, well stocked with a good variety of pantry items and gifts for all ages. The ice cream making program is always popular. You can't go wrong stopping by, they offer a lot.

I love coming here because the ice cream is yummy. I haven't had a chance to eat at the restaurant, but I am sure it is just as good. The gift shop has great items. This visit, it was decked out with Christmas items and some of their regularly stocked gifts. The premises are always clean and beautiful and inside is as well. The staff is friendly and helpful, they always are. Thank you for everything. I highly recommend coming here. And one more thing, the tours are fun for the whole family. My husband and I went on a tour around 2010. It was informative and fun. Now that we have a child, we want to go on another tour soon.

To say I'm in love with the Brown Cow Milkshake would be an understatement. The cheese soup is also amazing. I'm glad I don't live close, or I'd be here every day for a milkshake, no joke!

This place was great. Better than I expected. You can get coffee and snacks and tons of other things in the visitor lobby, including their signature cheese. They have a tour, which we went on with my sons class, and a lot of fun stations to learn about cheese and how the whole process works from cow to table. Then they show you a little movie at the end that tricks you into buying cheese. And I say that because I bought some cheese! And it's delicious!

Food was delicious. We loved all of the items in the store. Hubby is a cheese person so the selection of different cheeses was great. Tour is geared towards toddlers so definitely bring your kids. The waterfall and flowers on the grounds are also beautiful.

Small quaint visitor center. They sold their own cheese and other popular cheese brands. They also have food items but we didn't try any. The upstairs exhibit was informative, and there is a window to look through to the actual factory.

I probably will not return given the distance from the freeway, but if you were nearby for some reason, it is a fun place to stop (bathrooms were very clean!) for a grub or souvenirs.

You can stop here without buying the tour, and it's worthwhile: the best sharp cheddar in the Valley, cheesecake, Dreyer's ice cream, sandwiches, wine, condiments, and cow art.

Great place to visit. Be sure to see the displays upstairs as well as try the goodies, ice cream, cheese and check the gift shop.

We like the curds.

The grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese soup and peanut butter cheese pie were delicious!

A wonderful experience, loved the many jellies to try and the deli was wonderful. Lots of very informative article boards to read describing the whole cheese making process. A family friendly location, it is only 2 floors and pretty short but it's well done. Really enjoyed the outside waterfall garden with a full flowing stream, you can take some wonderful photos there or just hangout and enjoy a small picnic, would definitely recommend and will definitely return.

Very nice visitors center. Good salads and sandwich. Free cheese samples. Good prices.

Took the tour, highly recommend it, learned alot about how our California cheese is made and how the process works. Friendly staff. I also ordered a hot sandwich called" Bacon me Crazy" super delicious.

Here's my official report on yesterday's Field Trip to the Hilmar Cheese Company.

How fun... and STINKY!

The Hilmar Cheese Company has an immersive educational experience for school-aged children. While I imagine that it can be tailored to those younger than my Second Graders, I think that classes up to about Fifth Grade would enjoy this trip.

Our time spent there started off by watching an interactive video hosted by "Daisy The Cow" in front of a large display. It explained to us how the dairy process is sustainable and recyclable, all while showing us exactly how it was done.

After the video was over, we headed upstairs to a big observation room where the kids did a science experiment. They shook their own cream, sugar and vanilla in aluminum containers with ice to make fresh vanilla ice cream. Our Tour Guides taught us a cute song about sustainable dairy farming, then took us through the educational stations where we got to see it for ourselves.

If you would like to see it for yourself in under three minutes, please take a look at my reel for the day at @katiewileydesign on IG.

It is a great place to bring the kids to learn how cheese is made. The gift shop is awesome and the food at the cafe was delicious.

No trip is complete without a yummy snack of squeekers! Every day is a different flavor. You can call ahead to see what they have out each morning. In addition to squeekers, they carry many different types of cheeses from all over. They sell beer and wine, snacks, home decor and more! Stop by for fresh ice cream, cheesecake or brownies in many suprise flavors too! Great place to grab lunch, cheese soup, grilled cheese, fried squeekers, and other items too.

Great place! Super educational, well maintained and neat, and really good cheese. We enjoyed their little movie that talks about how it all works.

It's one of the best stops for lunch! All of their sandwiches are delicious, but their cheese soup is amazing! Plus, there's a wine shop, an opportunity to buy cheese, and super cute home decor. It's definitely worth the stop!