The alpine lakes, elevated some 5,000 feet, and three hours' ride from Corning, constitute an exhilirating zone for summer-time big trout fishing, Rainbow, Lochlaven and German Brown. No other place in all America presents quite so accessible and physically thrilling a setting for skiing, jumping slaloming and cross country racing as is found and enjoyed in the Mount Lassen National Park, a pleasant high gear, two hours' ride from Corning, or 70 miles distant. A national authority on game life has said that no where else in the United States can so great a variety of game be found in so small an area as in the country of which Corning is the geographical center. Here it is that many valley dwellers own summer cottages to which the families go for one, two and three months of the summer season. In most instances the men commute at week ends.
All practical needs are available at a mountain store, hotel, garage, and post office.
Its adaptation to semi-tropical fruits is the best evidence of the kind of climate that is existent at Corning. Oranges, superb in quality, ripen here from four to six weeks earlier than in the Los Angeles region. Believe it or not, it's so, and capable of proof to all who care to come and see. Bluntly and frankly, it's an intended bait to lure you to buy acres, or lots, in the Maywood Colony, or in Corning, a city of the sixth calss, which place is the trading center of the Maywood and other colonies. All the world should know where Corning is, but unfortunately for the world it does not.