Let's Build A Community!--Highline Crossing Coho tour + gathering

Hello All,

A visit to Highline Crossing Cohousing Community in Littleton, CO is a unique experience, one that greatly inspired me nearly seven years ago when I first discovered it as part of a national cohousing bus tour.

It is a living, breathing testament to the immense creativity and openness to possibility that both its' founders and residents still demonstrate today. They looked for opportunity where it could be found, and in doing so, made community affordable and accessible.

Expansive people.

On the 26th of February, we will meet some of these people, including ones who live in Highline Crossing--including host Martha Lyon--and one who has similarly been inspired by it--friend Kris Elletson, a person wanting to join with others to found a community.

Prepare to be surprised when you come for a visit, finding out for yourself that what looks like a single-use office park actually has a cohousing community nestled cozily "within" it. Be surprised again when you find that Highline Crossing backs directly onto the 100 yr+ cottonwood tree-lined Highline Canal, complete with a fully-connected trail that links residents to the entirety of the greater Denver area.

No question that Highline Crossing breaks the mold, being neither an urban core nor a rural cohousing community, yet it enjoys many of the advantages of both: speedy access to the light rail station with bikeability/walkability via the trail; large manicured parks alongside wild, open spaces, both having beautiful mountain views; arts/culture/shopping at the Aspen Grove Center (with the arthouse Alamo movie theater), unexpectedly juxtaposed by the (Rachel) Carson Nature Center.

All of it is an ode to what is possible if we're able to transcend the rigid categories of urban, suburban, and rural form, and if we can look past what first meets the eye and question what we think we know, so that something unexpected can emerge, be discovered!

Kris Elletson wants to continue this tradition of making community wherever, and however a person CAN, something that the presence of Highline Crossing Cohousing Community has made easier for all of us.

Wendy