The tasting room with a fire going. The bookstore that doesn't mind if you stay two hours. The museum nobody on TripAdvisor mentions. Rain on a lake is one of the better problems to have.
Award-winning small-batch distillery — bourbon, rye, gin, apple brandy — with a village tasting room a short walk from Clift Park. Flights are a few dollars and get comped with a bottle purchase. The cocktail bar side pours proper spirit-forward drinks; the right answer on a rainy weekend afternoon.
Inside the Skaneateles Library on East Genesee — three hundred paintings by the nineteenth-century local painter who bequeathed the collection to the village. Free, quiet, and the right forty-five minutes on a rainy morning. Rotating exhibits from regional contemporary painters share the space.