I just retired from nearly 20 years as a environmental geologist where I successfully helped our Fortune 100 clients satisfactorily return their impacted properties to future re-use. I am a passionate horse trainer in dressage and am planning a training facility here at Yale Manor at Copper Beeches as our next phase of construction.

I don't know where to start, but here goes - we have 10 private acres and a separate lakefront property within a 5 min walk, great views from the entire 3 story Manor House and our four 30' diameter yurts with full baths, heat, king mattresses, and kitchenettes from the Yurt Park behind the Manor House. There is a 100' dock and a boathouse and a pontoon boat for evening sunset cruises. 4 of the Manor house 2nd floor rooms have fireplaces and ensuite baths. Come experience true revivacation in our serene setting that has the perfect mix of country quiet, elegance, grace, lakeviews and lakefront access, and quick access to exciting events at the new del Lago Casino & Resort, 62 wineries on Seneca Lake and 25 wineries on Cayuga Lake, breweries, distilleries, and phenomenal natural wonders for biking, hiking, and gorgeous drives. 40 minutes to Ithaca gorges-ness, Watkins Glen racing, and the serene return home to our gracious accommodations where we intend to leave you revived to pick up your life with renewed energy and passion.

Our neighbors are simply the best, friendliest, most helpful, funloving lake folks we could ever hope to find - they have assisted us in our ambitious journey into innkeeping with grace and efficiency. Make sure you wave at the dock and you will have warm welcomes back. Our local Amish population thrills me with four-horse driving teams on the main and side roads around the countryside and our property was a 365 acre apple juice farm that founded the Seneca Apple Juice company in the early 1900s. We honor their entrepreneurial spirit and the woman who made it all possible and oversaw the estate and the building of the Manor House and it's juice business while she ran investment banks and finally became the first woman to be appointed as director to a major NY bank (the Corn Exchange Bank in NYC). She rests peacefully amongst her suffragette forebears in Seneca Falls where the National Women's Rights Museum celebrates the women who fought for the right to vote over a 70 year period. I feel their spirit in the air here at Yale Manor at Copper Beeches and their story inspires my innkeeping.