Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch

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Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University ), founded in 1879, is the major magnet attracting high-tech industry in the last few decades. Among numerous world-class programs are the Equine Science Department, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and the College of Natural Resources.

Fort Collins was founded in 1864 as a substitute for Camp Collins, which was on the site of present-day La Porte, and was washed away in a flood. Fort Collins was an outpost of Fort Laramie (on the Oregon Trail, near present-day Wheatland, Wyoming). It was situated on the Overland Trail -the route from the Oregon Trail to the Santa Fe Trail - which ran along the edge of the plains just east of the foothills (roughly along what is now Loveland's Wilson Ave).

Loveland is 7 miles east of the Ranch, and is famous for bronze sculpture and art galleries. America's "Sweetheart City" was founded in 1877 as a stop on the Colorado Central and Pacific Railway, of which William A. H. Loveland was the president. There were earlier settlements nearby, namely Namaqua (about 5 miles east of Sylvan Dale, a stage stop on the Overland Trail, where the infamous Mariano Medina had a toll bridge across the Big Thompson) and St. Louis, about 3 miles downstream from Loveland, too low for a good railroad bed.

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