Corning may not sit on a Finger Lake, but it is essential to any visit to the region. The Corning Museum of Glass draws over 300,000 visitors a year, and the restored Gaffer District downtown offers the best small-town shopping and dining corridor in the southern Finger Lakes.

Home to the Corning Museum of Glass — the largest glass museum in the world — and a revitalized Gaffer District of galleries, restaurants, and studios, Corning sits just south of the Finger Lakes and functions as the region's cultural anchor.