Do you love gatherings with family and friends, enjoying great food and stimulating conversation? Do you want to spend time in a place your children and grandchildren love to visit? Do you imagine yourself spending time in a house on a pond with fruit trees and gardens – a place you knew and loved and could always return to?  

 

Pinnacle Cohousing at Loch Lyme Lodge is working to build a community where a mix of privately owned rental cabins and homes and thoughtfully designed shared spaces make that vision possible. 

 

In 2006 a group of friends purchased 120 acres of land on Post Pond, a small lake 15 minutes from Hanover, NH, home to Dartmouth College and Hitchcock Medical Center (a tertiary care hospital), as well as the center of the many cultural activities that the Upper Valley offers.  It was here that we discovered a true hidden gem, the century old hospitality business known as Loch Lyme Lodge. The property has 21 rental cabins on just 15 of the acres, and we have modernized many of the cabins and revived that century old community  

 

Now, after two decades of caring for and growing Loch Lyme Lodge & Cabins, we are beginning the process of seeking approval to create a small cohousing neighborhood on the 92 acres of land zoned for residential use adjacent to the hospitality business.  

 

We plan to create a community where we can reduce our living costs and carbon footprint. We envision up to 24 privately owned homes, thoughtfully clustered into approximately four buildings. Clustering homes both preserves open space and helps foster a close-knit neighborhood. Residents can enjoy the privacy of their own homes alongside shared spaces designed to encourage connection, collaboration, and a rich community life.  

 

In addition, we’d also love to build about 20 “pod-based” homes that would provide memory care and skilled nursing, allowing residents and neighbors to remain part of the community as their needs change and creating opportunities for truly multigenerational living.