Loveland

Guides

The longer reads: Loveland with kids, and how the town got this way. Each says where its facts came from.

Families

Families · October 5, 2026

Loveland with kids: two sculpture parks, Boyd Lake, the nature center, the library and the fair

Where to take children in Loveland, Colorado: the Benson and Chapungu sculpture parks, the swim beach and trails at Boyd Lake State Park, the High Plains Environmental Center, the library's summer program and bookstore, the county fair at The Ranch and the children's museum on the way.

History

The 1902 Colorado and Southern Railway depot on Railroad Avenue, a long tan-brick building with a hipped roof, green trim and a LOVELAND nameboard, now used by local businesses, on a sunny September morning.

History · October 5, 2026

Loveland history: a trading post, a town in a wheat field, sugar and cherries, the valentines, two floods and the sculptors

Mariano Medina's trading post on the Overland Trail, a town platted in a wheat field beside the Colorado Central in 1877, Great Western's first sugar factory, the cherry orchards, the Rialto, the valentines, two floods, the sculptors and a city of 76,378. The short history of Loveland, Colorado, with sources.