Tours
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.
An experienced cohouser or cohousing professional will take you to visit five to seven communities. As you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the tour leader 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. Mid-day, you will receive a gourmet box lunch or a meal prepared in one of the common houses.
Sat Aug 9 2008
Bus Tour of Northern California: East Bay | More Info | Register
This bus tour will focus on the wonderful variety of Cohousing communities in San Francisco's East Bay. We are planning to visit Swan's Market, Temescal Creek and Temescal Commons in Oakland, then Pleasant Hill, Berkeley and Doyle Street (Emeryville) Cohousing communities. Our day will start and end at Swan's Market in Downtown Oakland. The cost is $95.00 per person. A boxed lunch and lots of information about each community will be included.
Sat Oct 25 2008
Bus Tour of Northern California: Sacramento, Davis and East Bay | More Info | Register
We will tour the Sacramento/Davis communities in the morning (Muir Commons, N Street and Southside Park), and Pleasant Hill, Berkeley, Doyle Street (Emeryville) and Swan's Market Cohousing (Oakland) in the afternoon. The tour begins and ends at Swan’s Market Cohousing, 930 Clay Street, downtown Oakland. $95 per person. A boxed lunch and lots of information about each community will be included.
Cancellation policy for Coho/US Tours: Those canceling a tour reservation 10 days or more before any tour will receive a refund on the amount of 75% of their registration fee. There will be no refunds after that date.
If you are interested in being notified when tours are announced in your area (or in volunteering to help out with tours in either Colorado or in Seattle), please let us know by clicking the appropriate link below. Custom tours can be arranged in the Washington DC area.
Related pages: Visiting Cohousing Groups
