Manson's Landing

What’s there: Manson’s Landing is the throbbing heart of Cortes Island. The general store is located in “uptown Manson’s Landing”, a most humorous description, as it implies a downtown Manson’s Landing. The general store is open seven days a week, and has a map posted on its wall if you’re lost. Also in Manson’s Landing: a public library (open afternoons M W F); a cafe (never saw it open); a small bookstore (ditto); a branch of the local credit union, comprising the financial district; a portable labeled something like North Island College; and the Community Hall.

Why go there: there’s more services here than anywhere else on the island.