Cohousing Community Tours - Click here to learn more.

Curious about Cohousing?

A personal visit to a variety of cohousing communities* offers you an experience that no photo, website or book can offer. To provide you with this opportunity, the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) sponsors daylong tours of cohousing communities in several areas around the nation.

You are cordially invited to join us on one of our bus tour and "traveling workshop". Often co-led by two local and knowledgeable cohousing residents. We focus on the wonderful variety of Cohousing communities in the US. As you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the tour leader(s) will give participants a chance to introduce themselves, share general information about cohousing, answer questions, provide fact sheets and site plans, and prepare you for your ~40-minute visit to each community. At each stop, a community host (often a long-time resident) will guide your group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions.

Around mid-day, we will enjoy lunch together, which we sometimes have in one of the host communities' common house in the company of some of its residents. You can bring your own or order a gourmet boxed lunch. Sometimes lunch is catered by residents of one of the communities which is visit or by a local caterer.

We look forward to having you join us for a day full of learning, community-building and fun.

Visit our calendar of upcoming tours and to register.

*Cohousing communities offer nurturing places where people of all ages grow and age well. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground and a common house.