Aerial view of MarLin Village Tiny Home Community with green landscape and tiny houses.

MarLin Village Tiny Home Community

  • Communities

About the Communities

Founding year

  • 2021

What we do

MarLin Village is a unique Tiny Home on Wheels community situated in Bayfield, Colorado, near the Pine River. Bayfield, set at 6900 feet elevation, is a tranquil agricultural town in the Pine River Valley. The village provides the convenience of strolling, biking, or taking a short drive to various amenities like local eateries, a brewery, and shops, all within a block of MarLin Village.
Applications are open from February 2023 for the first move-in scheduled for April 2023. The village is conveniently positioned on the southwestern edge of Bayfield, close to the Pine River and within walking distance of Historic Mill Street. This street hosts Bayfield’s Museum, restaurants, shops, a gym, parks, professional offices, churches, and a laundromat.
MarLin Village also offers proximity to local businesses, including hardware and grocery stores, a library, doctor’s offices, a pharmacy, a farmers market, and more. The community is situated just a 20-minute drive away from Mercy Regional Medical Center and Rivergate Hospital.
Bayfield, CO, also hosts a range of community events, including Easter egg hunts, Labor Day yard sales, Fourth of July parades, and Heritage Days celebrations.
Outdoor enthusiasts can enjoy the Sauls Creek trail system, lakes like Vallecito, Lemon, Navajo, and Lake Nighthorse, and nearby skiing options such as Purgatory Mountain Resort and Wolf Creek Ski areas.
Bayfield’s central location provides access to nearby towns like Durango, Pagosa Springs, Ignacio, and Silverton, each offering their own attractions and events.
MarLin Village has 15 available spaces for Tiny Homes, ranging from 25×35 to 25×40 in size, with various amenities like plug-in connectors, parking options, and high-speed internet. The monthly rent includes water, sewer, trash, recycling, and street snow removal. Neighbors can enjoy quiet spaces with benches, fruit trees, raised bed gardens, and a pavilion with barbecue grills for communal gatherings. On-site storage units are also available for rent.
Overall, MarLin Village offers a cozy and convenient living space for those seeking a unique Tiny Home community experience in the picturesque surroundings of Bayfield, CO.

Our Mission

Provide affordable housing solution for individuals and families that have chosen to downsize their life and want to live with and near nature.

  • Purpose
  • Social
  • Sustainability practices
  • Waste reduction / composting

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2021
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2023
  • Started living together
  • 5 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
5

Primary decision-making authority

  • Single Leader or Founding Couple

One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

Decision-making process

  • Leadership Decides

A single person, couple, or small group makes most major decisions.

Governance structure

  • Founder/Leader-led

Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Members with pre-existing debt: allowed

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Garden(s), Outbuilding(s), Outdoor Kitchen, Waterfront access

Frequency of communal meals

  • Rarely

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Town/Small City

Smaller municipalities with local services but rural character.

Sustainability approach

  • Waste reduction / composting

Food systems

  • Community garden

Wastewater management

  • Public sewage

Waste management practices

  • Recycling program

Guest Book

Written reviews are available for plus members. Click here to upgrade.

Location

  • Colorado, United States

MarLin Village Tiny Home Community

Needs and Offers

Connecting people and communities through an intentional online marketplace

  • Promoted
Offer
  • Promoted
  • Events
2 weeks ago

Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
  • Promoted
Need
Offer
  • Real Estate For Sale
3 days ago

Breathe the Magic

Set in Sea Elephant, Tasmania, within a remarkable conservation landscape, this contemporary home offers genuine privacy with the assurance that the surrounding native environment is protected for the future.  With its cool King Island climate and abundant rain and water supply, your lifetyle is secure in a climate future that is becoming unsettling. Experience the unique community lifestyle that only King Island can offer.  Sleep with the peace of knowing you live in a place where everyone looks out for everyone else, and someone will always have your back. 1675 Reekara Road offers slightly more than 51 hectares of protected King Island wilderness, of which approximately 48.84 hectares are protected under a conservation covenant encompassing King Island scrub, blue gum forest, remarkable wildlife. The property is surrounded by the Lavinia State Reserve and Council Hill Conservation Area. A 2 hectare residential entitlement provides ample space for planting vegetables, fruit trees,  keeping chickens, or creating other sustainable living infrastructure.  Already included are: – A well-maintained house built in 2023 with upstairs en-suite bedroom and deck with gorgeous views, including forest/ocean outlook. – A spacious downstairs bathroom provides options for guest accommodation – Just include a sleeper couch or 2 in the ample living area. – A large pristine kitchen, including pantry and laundry. – Small wood shed – Large shed or double garage built in 2024 – Enclosed garden – 40,000 litre water storage tank – large dam An existing approved DA means you have the option of further development.  Buy the property furnighed, unfurnished, or with a 2015 Jeep Wrangler thrown in.

Update to a Public Profile

  • Log in
  • Go to your profile page
  • Toggle on the "Add my profile to the directory"
  • Save your profile

Information

Communities

A residential project: people live here as their primary home.

Organizations

An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).

Plus Community Membership

  • Find people with Profile Match
  • Access to your community listing statistics
  • Create Discussion Groups
  • Access to our affiliate program
  • Member badge on your community profile
I am an official member of this community
Disclaimer
I affirm that my information is accurate and I am authorized to manage this listing
Foundation for Intentional Community FIC Member badge logo.

Free Plan

Free Membership
Free

Intentional Advertising

  • Subtotal

    {{ currencyFormat( pricing_summary.total_amount ) }}

Icon representing community connections and collaboration for intentional communities.

Plus Membership

  • Find communities with Profile Match
  • View detailed reviews about communities
  • Create free listings in Needs & Offers
  • Plus Member resources in CommUniversity
  • View communities detailed reviews
  • Plus Member badge on your profile