Restaurants within 2 miles of Loveland, Colorado

Listing 120 restaurants in and around Loveland.

Loveland is a city located in Larimer County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 50,608. The city's public schools are part of the Thompson R2-J School District. The city was founded in 1877 along the newly-constructed line of the Colorado Central Railroad, near its crossing of the Big Thompson River. It was named in honor of William A.H. Loveland, the president of the Colorado Central Railroad. The city was founded one mile upstream from the existing small settlement of St. Louis, the buildings of which were moved to the site of Loveland. For the much of the 20th century the town was dependent on agriculture. The primary crops in the area were sugar beets and sour cherries. In 1901, the Great Western Sugar Company built a factory in Loveland, which remained as a source of employment until its closure in 1985. During the late 1920's the Spring Glade orchard was the largest cherry orchard west of the Mississippi River. At that time the cherry orchards produced more than $1 million worth of cherries per year. A series of droughts, attacks of blight and finally a killer freeze destroyed the industry. By 1960 cherries were no longer farmed. In the late 20th century, the economy diversified with the arrival of manufacturing facilities by Hewlett-Packard, Teledyne, and Hach, a water quality analysis equipment manufacturer. In addition, the city serves as a bedroom community to commuters that travel to employment locations in Boulder, Westminster and other parts of the Denver Metropolitan area. The city is located in the Colorado Front Range region at the base of the foothills just east of the mouth of Big Thompson Canyon at the intersection of U.S. Highway 34 and U.S. Highway 287. Longs Peak and other mountains of the Front Range are visible from much of the city. Located at one of the principal access routes to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the city receives much pass-through tourist traffic in the summer months. Lake Loveland, an early agricultural reservoir in the irrigation system of the region, is located in the city limits and provides a primary recreational facility for the city residents. The city is south of Fort Collins, its larger neighbor and the county seat. The two cities have been steadily growing towards each other over the last several decades and are considered to be a single metropolitan area by the U.S government. The establishment of county-owned open space between the two communities in the 1990s was intended to create a permanent buffer to contiguous growth. At the same time, the city aggressively expanded its incorporated limits eastward to embrace the interchange of Interstate 25 and U.S. Highway 287. In the last decade, the intersection has become a primary commercial hub of northern Colorado, with the construction of shopping centers and the Budweiser Events Center. The city limits are now contiguous with those of Windsor, which has expanded westward from Weld County across Interstate 25. Situated roughly halfway between the college towns of Fort Collins and Boulder, the city has a reputation as being somewhat conservative in its politics, with a large active population of Evangelical Christians.

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