Tours & Events
Count Up to the conference
June 24-28 - Seattle
Tours
A personal visit to a variety of cohousing communities offers you an experience that no photo, website or book can offer. For more about tours, see below.
California 2009 Tours
These tours are from 8:00am-5:30pm, and the cost for each tour is $95.00 per person. All tours will start and end at Swan's Market in Downtown Oakland. A $10 vegetarian boxed lunch can be ordered. (Please make sure you select that option when you purchase your ticket). Lots of information about each of these unique communities will be included.
Saturday, August 22, 2009 - East Bay only
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. Register Now - Questions?
Saturday, October 31, 2009 - Sacramento, Davis and East Bay
We will tour the Sacramento/Davis communities in the morning (Muir Commons, N Street and Southside Park), and Pleasant Hill, Doyle Street (Emeryville) and Swan's Market Cohousing (Oakland) in the afternoon. Register Now - Questions?
Massachusetts 2009 Tours
Details for a mid-October New England Tour will soon be posted here. Please let us know that you are interered by Emaiing us
Colorado 2009 Tours
Details for a mid-October Denver area Tour will soon be posted here. Please let us know that you are interered by Emaiing us
New England and North Carolina 2009 Tours
We are presently in conversation with communities in those areas and will post tour dates as soon as we have them. We would love to hear about your interest in tours in those areas as well as in other geographical regions. Please Email us
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.
Community Events
The following listings are public events given by cohousing communities & organizations.
To submit an event, click here
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About 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.
You can also take a virtual tour
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