In the Grass Valley/Nevada City area, we have lots to do. – Wolf Creek Lodge

The day after Wolf Creek Lodge’s monthly meeting in June, Suzanne Marriott and I decided to play tourist at Grass Valley’s gorgeous and historic Empire Mine State Park, a gold rush era processing gold mine.

Now Grass Valley’s Wolf Creek Lodge, with 30 residences designed for older adults, is on track to open next summer. It will be the country’s fourth elder co-housing complex, but according to the Co-housing Association of the United States, another dozen are in the planning stages.

Bob Miller is currently a ski bum, both downhill and cross country, in Truckee, California

In June, some of the Wolf Creek Lodge Bay Area contingent met for lunch at Horatio’s on the San Leandro Marina. The group included, Mike and Terry Preston (closest to the camera), Amy Robbins (right, by window) and Suzanne Marriott (left, by window).

I’m just finishing the collection of essays called “Audacious Aging” which I know a number of our Wolf Creek Lodge members have read.  How perfect for senior cohousers!  I was intrigued by many of the essays and would like to explore further.  I hope after we move in next year, we can have discussions and […]

July 10 Bay Area members of Wolf Creek Lodge will meet at 5:00 for a barbeque social gathering in Concord. Members from Berkeley, Hayward, Marin Co., Castro Valley and Concord will be attending.

By noon today, the crew had poured our first real building foundation concrete for Wolf Creek Lodge Cohousing–the footings for the columns and walls of the concrete, underground garage. The word went out on the Lodge member email listserve, and you can see they’ve never been “so excited over concrete.” See this morning’s emailss emails […]

With the addition of four new households (4!), construction moving again, and members picking options, the Lodge is starting to feel very real!

Why did I join a co-housing community? By Magdalene Jaeckel For me it was the most natural decision I have made in my life, except the decision to get married, 64 years ago. We raised four wonderful children, but none of them lived close by, and now I witnessed my husband in the last stages […]