About a mile from downtown Jackson and a short walk to the Kennedy Tailing Wheels park, the Gate House offers an assortment of accommodations in a historic mansion surrounded by landscaped lawns, garden, and open fields. Besides the two rooms and two suites in the main house, decorated with Victorian furnishings, there's a small cottage with a gas-log stove and a Jacuzzi for two. Ping-Pong, darts, a swimming pool, and newly completed bocce ball court offer fun diversions. The three- to four-course candlelit champagne breakfast is served on fine china, and in the afternoon wine and appetizers are served. The inn is within walking distance of two fine restaurants and close to Amador County wineries, gold mines, caverns, and Daffodil Hill.