What is it like to live in a 900 home community with golf course, swimming pool, parks, club house with dining and events?  Listen as one Loch Alpine home owner describes what she thinks about living in the wonderful area of Loch Alpine in video below.

Loch Alpine Subdivision

The area of Loch Alpine is located just north of Ann Arbor, minutes from Dexter schools.   This wonderful area features 2 small lakes, parks, organized community events, and includes the Lore Newsletter.

Loch Alpine subdivision is 10 miles from Ann Arbor, but the community’s setting – unique homes along winding roads, amid rolling hills, mature trees and lakes – has a distinct away-from-it-all feel. Dexter industrialist William Blakely  bought and platted the 650-acre property in the 1920s. He built the roads, stone bridges, and a sewage plant, envisioning a community accessible by train for people from Chicago and Detroit.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Blakely stopped work on the project, and though the railroad still runs past Loch Alpine’s southern end, no station was ever built there. Blakely died in 1934 and his son, Malcolm, had a clubhouse and 18-hole golf course built on the property in 1935. Developers from Detroit eventually bought the property and started building houses in the mid-1950s. Nona Credille and her husband bought theirs in 1958, attracted by the idea of living in the country, yet having water and sewer service, which is still provided by the Loch Alpine Sanitary Authority of Scio and Webster Twp.

The Credilles live on the road that runs over the dam between Bridgeway Lake, and it’s lower counterpart, Greennook Lake. Nona, chair of the subdivision’s lakes board, tests the water for e-coli during swimming season and spearheads the battle against the northern milfoil growth encouraged by lawn fertilizers and agricultural fertilizers that flow to the lakes via Boyden Creek.
The Ann Arbor Country Club and its golf course take up roughly a third of Loch Alpine’s 650 or so acres. The club, with its pool and competitive swim program, is a hub for Loch Alpine residents.

In 2003 the Ann Arbor Country Club and Loch Alpine’s 450 families paid a special assessment to cover the $895,000 cost of dredging both lakes to deepen them and get rid of the silt that encourages week growth. Residents, including the country club, also pay an annual assessment (about $600 per lot) to cover road repairs, expenses related to the two 10-acre lakes and the community’s two parks, and social events like the Fourth of July fireworks.

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Ann Arbor Country Club

With about 180 members divided evenly between swim-only, golf-only and full memberships, the Ann Arbor Country Club welcomes everyone from active families to business members and their associates. The pool and clubhouse were both renovated in 2001 to better meet members’ needs.

Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the club’s competition length pool has a diving well and space for lap and recreational swimming, plus a zero-entry area that gives young non-swimmers a place to enjoy the water - safe from deep water but right next to the big pool. At the height of the summer the pool’s open from 10 a.m.-dusk, with at least two (and often several more) lifeguards on-site.

The club sponsors a very competitive swim team, the Ann Arbor Country Club Dolphins, which competes in the Washtenaw Interclub Swim Conference. The clubhouse has showers and changing rooms, and the snack bar is situated close to the pool and to the golf course’s fist tee. It’s got your basic hamburgers, hot dogs and wraps, but snack bar diners can also order from the dining room menu and enjoy their meal poolside.

Introductory memberships (2008 rates) run $1,800 for swim-only, $2,800 for golf-only and $3,800 for a full membership. After the introductory year, members buy an equity share of the club for $2,800 (which can be paid over six years) monthly dues are $205 individual/$260 family for a swim membership, $299/$393 for golf only and $325/$431 for full membership. Junior members (households with at least one adult 35 or under) get a 40 percent discount on dues. Tennis privileges are part of the swim and full memberships. There’s also a business membership, which lets an equity member add up to four business associates at $100 each, plus monthly dues.

The club started offering neighborhood dining memberships in 2008 and quickly accumulated more than 200 dining members who, for a $20 annual fee, can eat in the dining room or snack bar and pay by cash or Visa. The clubhouse can handle groups of anywhere from 20-170 and sees everything from birthday parties and wedding receptions to business retreats and fundraisers. The pool’s also available for private parties. You don’t have to be a member to rent the facilities, but rentals do have to be approved by the board, so it helps to have a sponsor.

What more could you want right in your backyard? Come check out what Loch Alpine has to offer you and your family and get the ultimate guide to Loch Alpine by contacting the expert real estate professionals of Kathy Toth & Team.