Park Corner is a rural community in Prince Edward Island's Queens County, situated near the shores of New London Bay. The area is closely associated with Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Island author whose Anne of Green Gables stories drew on the landscapes and communities of Prince Edward Island. Park Corner is surrounded by farmland, woodland, and coastal scenery, with the nearby Lake of Shining Waters forming part of the setting connected to Montgomery's writing. Its quiet roads and small-scale rural landscape offer a view of the agricultural and coastal environment that shaped much of the Island's literary identity.

Park Corner's strongest cultural connection is Montgomery's Cavendish family home and the people and places that influenced her life and writing. The Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace and nearby heritage sites help explain her connection to Prince Edward Island, while Montgomery's descriptions of rural Island communities remain an important part of the region's identity. The area is also associated with Montgomery's extended family and the Macneill heritage, connecting the community to the author's personal history. Local traditions reflect the wider Island culture of farming, community gatherings, church life, and close ties between rural settlements.

The landscape around Park Corner includes New London Bay, rolling agricultural land, wooded areas, and waterways that are characteristic of central Prince Edward Island. The nearby Lake of Shining Waters is especially well known because Montgomery used the name in Anne of Green Gables for the lake near Avonlea. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site, including the homestead area associated with her family, lies a short distance away. The wider region also provides access to Prince Edward Island National Park, where visitors can find sandy beaches, coastal dunes, salt marshes, and trails through forests and fields.

Food in Park Corner reflects Prince Edward Island's agricultural and coastal economy, with potatoes, seafood, berries, dairy products, and other locally produced ingredients common across the surrounding region. Lobster, mussels, oysters, and clams are particularly associated with the Island's coastal food traditions. A distinctive detail about Park Corner is the way its ordinary rural landscape became part of a much larger literary legacy: fields, woods, lakes, and family homes around the community helped provide the real-world setting behind Montgomery's fictional Avonlea. The result is a place where local geography and literary history remain closely connected.