Loveland, Colorado

We camped here at the Boyd State Park over Memorial Day weekend.  This is a lovely park and we had a lake view from our site.  Sites are a little close together and as you can imagine the park was full due to the holiday.  Boyd has nice, clean facilities, restrooms, showers and laundry.  Electric only sites.    Loveland is a retirement community about 15 minutes south of Fort Collins.  Loveland and Fort Collins were both very nice cities.  If one is looking to retire in a community that offers all four seasons, it would be worth checking out.

Loveland is the gateway to Estes Park which other campers tell me is a must see.  We didn’t make it there this time around, but I’m sure we will on our next trip to Colorado.  We did try some of the local cuisine – Smashburger which I gather is a relatively new and up and coming hamburger chain in Colorado and expected to open new locations throughout the West.  It hopes to give In and Out Burger a run for its money.  It has an expanded menu offering chicken and salads and has higher prices than In and Out.  The verdict was that the food was good, but in my opinion can’t touch In and Out – sorry Smashburger.

 

We drove into Fort Collins to see the test gardens there at the University but because of the late snow fall and cold weather the gardens weren’t planted.  Instead we saw 1,000 large empty pots getting ready for planting.  Timing is everything I guess.  Downtown Fort Collins had a lot of charm and perhaps the most brewery establishments in the nation crowded into one small place.