LOVE in all its facets is being celebrated across Colorado as the Centennial State readies for Spring. From giant love-lock pledges and gay ski weeks, intimate romantic escapes, historic train rides, steamy hot springs, and the ultimate exchange vows at a Valentine's Day Group Wedding in Loveland – as well as a host of new experiences  – Colorado is the perfect destination for a romantic getaway. 

Celebrate Love in Loveland 

Loveland, AKA Sweetheart City, is the true heart of Colorado, where Valentine's Day lasts all year! This February, you can commit to love with a lock, a kiss or by taking part in a mass wedding. Loveland is the perfect holiday destination during the month of love. Tucked into the Front Range mountains between Fort Collins and Denver, Loveland is made for intimate getaways. In 2024, the town's annual Sweetheart Festival is set to return with the biggest line of events yet.

• Run the 4-mile sweetheart classic, watch the cute Miss Valentine and Mr Cupid contest, view gravity-defying ice sculptures down 4th street and listen to a live romantic symphony at Rialto Theatre.
• Lock in your love up for eternity with friends, family or loved ones by engraving your lock and placing it at Loveland's famous LOVE or HEART sculptures, the USA's largest love-lock sculpture.
• Pledge the ultimate commitment at Loveland's annual Valentine's Day Group Wedding, in a fully personalised ceremony. New this year, in partnership with the Colorado Eagles, lucky couples can exchange or renew their vows on the ice prior before the ice hockey game.

Love Reigns: Loveland's Valentine Re-mailing Tradition!

For the past 77 years, Loveland, the Sweetheart City, has orchestrated the largest Valentine Re-mailing Program in the U.S. Each year, more than 100,000 stamped Valentines are sent to the Loveland Post Office inside larger envelopes. A brigade of volunteers will unpack the envelopes, hand-stamp Valentines with a special design and chosen verse for that year and send them to intended recipients.

What's New in Colorado?

• Fly Fishing for women in Colorado with She's Fly fishing tours. Learn the meditative art of fly fishing with She's Fly, providing guided trips and lessons, including women-only classes for every season.

• Seven Utes opens Outdoor Education Yurt in the remote Cameron's Pass north of Fort Collins. Seven Utes Yurt is Colorado Mountain School's newest adventure mountain lodge featuring a fully stocked kitchen, solar power, portable toilets, a 16-person sleeping capacity, outdoor seating and table space and a wood-burning stove.

• Zen out at Drala Mountain Centre. The Drala Mountain Center, located in Red Feather Lakes, Northern Colorado, is one of only 100 Shambhala centres found in the world. The 600-acre mountain valley retreat is surrounded by native forests, gentle meadows and rocky peaks and is home to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya.

• New Ice Age Discovery Talk & Tour launches in Snowmass Village. This tour, hosted weekly in Snowmass (until 9 April) open for all ages and delves into the remarkable history of mammoths and mastodons who inhabited Snowmass between 60,000 and 120,000 years ago. See replicas of Ice Age animal bones, teeth, tusks, and more.  

Upcoming Events 

• Silverton Skijoring: Feb 17-18. Silverton's largest winter event puts skiers and horseback riders through grewuling obstacle courses.
• Telluride Gay Ski Week: Feb 24- 2 March. The week-long celebration of equality features a full program of events, live music and chair lift ski parade where pride flag-bearing skiers and snowboarders will partake before a popular von-mountain DJ dance party.

• Denver Restaurant Week: 1-10 March. One of the biggest foodie events in Colorado, this popular festival showcases Denver's thriving food scene, including Michelin star restaurants, in a lively festival atmosphere.

• Monte Vista Crane Festival: 8-10 March. Celebrating bird migration visitors can enjoy nature photography workshops, sandhill crane tours, guest speakers and guided themed canyon visits.

• Frozen Dead Guy Days: 15-17 March. This unique festival honours Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, a cryogenically frozen man from Nederland Colorado. Visitors will well entertained with contests, competitions, live music, great food and parades. 

Winter Wonderland: Journey through the majestic mountains with the Historic Durango Train 

The popular Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge raiload's immersive POLAR EXPRESS train ride was a massive hit among locals and visitors this winter season. The vintage steam train departed Durango Depot and headed for the North Pole. The themed experience may have ended, but the breathtaking train journey through a magical winter wonderland certainly hasn't

Embark on an incredible journey through the majestic San Juan mountains Cascade Canyon Winter Train. This unforgettable 5-hour round trip offers magnificent winter views of Animas River and the snow-clad peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Running until the 3rd of May, the experience will have you believe that the North Pole is the next stop!

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Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) is the official travel and tourism office for the state of Colorado. CTO's mission is to generate traveller spending by promoting Colorado as a four-season, four-corner, world-class travel destination and to develop compelling, sustainable travel experiences.Colorado is a year-round destination offering unparalleled adventure and recreational activities, an abundant arts scene, Western heritage, distinctive cuisine and 28 renowned ski resort areas. The state's diverse landscape boasts natural hot springs, the headwaters of four major rivers, numerous peaceful lakes and reservoirs, 12 national parks and monuments and 58 mountain peaks that top 14,000 feet, known as 'Fourteeners'. www.colorado.com