Day: December 30, 2025💾

🗺️ Maps

Horseheads vs Corning, a size comparison

Horseheads is certainly more sprawling than Corning, as the prior is kind of a suburb of Elmira. Corning is compact also due to geography and the rather narrow valley its situated in. 

Map: Chautauqua Lake Fish and Wildlife Mangement Areas

Corning Preserve 1952

Before Interstate 787 and the filling in of the Albany Yacht Club, much of Corning Preserve was the former railyards along the river.

Map: Battery Diagram

Trailhead Parking

While ultimately I parked in this lot, it worried me for a few minutes, because it was a layer of ice from freezing rain, under the layer of 4 inches of snow. I was worried about getting stuck.

Monday December 28, 2009 — Snake Mountain
Map: Severence Hill Trail
Map: Junius Pond Unique Area