Loveland is working to spread love rather than germs and marked this mission with a heart as they placed the second love lock sculpture in its permanent home at Lake Loveland.
The 6,000-pound metal heart with hundreds of locks affixed was placed Friday at the southeast edge of the lake, neighboring the city’s replica of the Statue of Liberty.
The sculpture stands 12 feet, 3 inches tall, one side bright red and the other a grid of squares with spaces for visitors to lock in their commitment to one another with their own lock or custom piece available for purchase and engraving at the Loveland Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center (5400 Stone Creek Circle) for $20.
“We really feel like this is going to frame one of our best assets, which is Lake Loveland and the mountains in the background, and this is meant to represent all of the love and Valentine’s season and all of the things that we’re known for. It’s also an extension of the first Love Lock sculpture that is at the Visitor Center,” city of Loveland visitor services manager Cindy Mackin said.
“I think it’ll be a great welcoming to all of those people that are either coming into Loveland or on their way to Rocky Mountain National Park. We want them to have that visual welcome that you are in love-land.”
The new location overlooks the mountains and water, allowing visitors to pose under the arch and capture the natural beauty in one photograph.
People driving on Eisenhower Boulevard can see the heart and easily pull off the road into the parking lot. This was what Cindy and Jamie Keene and their daughter Cassie of Grundy, Virginia did Friday, before snapping the sculpture’s first photo in its new home.
“It’s beautiful. It wasn’t here the last time we came, so it drew our attention,” Cindy Keene said.
The family was passing through Loveland on their way to Estes Park to celebrate Cassie Keene’s spring break. This is her first time in Colorado, and the family decided to stop by the visitor center to commemorate their visit with a lock after taking their photo.
For Mackin, this interaction was proof of what she hoped the new sculpture in its new home would be able to do — invite people to stop in Loveland, take a photo and see what the city is all about.
“I think that people will like to come and take that picture and say, ‘hey, I’m in Loveland,’ which is what we’re trying to do, get people to recognize how incredibly beautiful and special and amazing it is up here,” Mackin said.
Designed and crafted by local artist Doug Rutledge, Beatty Construction Services and Loveland Ready Mix Concrete, the heart sculpture was truly a labor of love according to Mackin.
Visit Loveland also worked with the city’s Visual Arts Commission to approve the best location, the Parks and Recreation cemetery division to dig a foundation for the sculpture’s base, LPR Construction to place the piece and many more local organizations.
The piece brought the community together to build it, in hopes that the community might enjoy it and grow from it.
“It’s great from the aspect of welcoming people to town, getting them to pull over and locking in their love, and every picture they take is further branding the love and that message that we have an absolutely gorgeous, beautiful community. I think it’s a win-win-win,” Mackin said.
To catch a glimpse of Loveland’s new symbol and to lock in your love for the city and all that it encompasses, visit the second love lock sculpture at the southeast corner of Lake Loveland on Eisenhower Boulevard.
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