Our Story

Hi! So if you've found this page, you're curious like a cat. We hope that doesn't come back to haunt you; for now, you're in luck because we're prepared to share a little more about our origin story. We're Seth and Lynn, and we're the innkeepers of the Gate. In 2021, Lynn convinced me (Seth) to buy an unusual investment property in Skaneateles, my hometown. In 2023, we opened it as The Gate. The years in between involved a lot of basement work, some light electrocution, and t