Highline Crossing Cohousing Community

Highline Crossing Cohousing Community

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Highline Crossing is a 40-home "cohousing" community located in Littleton, Colorado adjacent to the Highline Canal (south of Mineral between Broadway and Santa Fe). The community was established in March, 1995.

Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is little or no sense of community.

It is characterized by private dwellings with their own kitchen, living-dining room etc, but also extensive common facilities. Our "common house" (clubhouse) includes a large dining room, kitchen, kids "romp room", sitting room, community laundry facility, and basement recreation area.

Usually, cohousing communities are designed and managed by the residents, and are intentional neighborhoods: the people are consciously committed to living as a community; the physical design itself encourages that and facilitates social contact.

The typical cohousing community has 20 to 30 single family homes along a pedestrian street or clustered around a courtyard. Residents of cohousing communities often have several optional group meals in the common house each week. Highline Crossing has community meals or potlucks every Tuesday and Friday at 6:30 p.m.

This type of housing began in Denmark in the late 1960s, and spread to North America in the late 1980s. There are now more than a two hundred cohousing communities completed or in development across the United States and approximately a dozen in Colorado.

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About our association

About Highline Crossing

Highline Crossing is a 40-home "cohousing" community located in Littleton, Colorado adjacent to the Highline Canal (south of Mineral between Broadway and Santa Fe). The community was established in March, 1995.

Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is little or no sense of community.

It is characterized by private dwellings with their own kitchen, living-dining room etc, but also extensive common facilities. Our "common house" (clubhouse) includes a large dining room, kitchen, kids "romp room", sitting room, community laundry facility, and basement recreation area.

Usually, cohousing communities are designed and managed by the residents, and are intentional neighborhoods: the people are consciously committed to living as a community; the physical design itself encourages that and facilitates social contact.

The typical cohousing community has 20 to 30 single family homes along a pedestrian street or clustered around a courtyard. Residents of cohousing communities often have several optional group meals in the common house each week. Highline Crossing has community meals or potlucks every Tuesday and Friday at 6:30 p.m.

This type of housing began in Denmark in the late 1960s, and spread to North America in the late 1980s. There are now more than a two hundred cohousing communities completed or in development across the United States and approximately a dozen in Colorado.

Related Sites

National Cohousing Web Site