Love’s Travel Plaza, located at 690 Doc Holliday Dr., officially opened for business Thursday. (Carie Canterbury – Daily Record)
The wait is over.
Love’s Travel Plaza, located at 690 Doc Holliday Drive, officially opened for business at 7 a.m. Thursday.
Crews have been hard at work for months to make sure the doors would open on time, and the staff was busy Thursday welcoming customers, tidying up shelves and completing last-minute projects.
“Now can we do the things that we are good at – taking care of our customers, creating a warm, friendly environment for customers who are respected and welcomed and can be confident they have a place to go to that has clean facilities,” said Dave Paulson, the general manager for the Cañon City truck stop. “We call it ‘Clean spaces and friendly faces.’”
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Located off Four Mile Parkway and U.S. 50, Love’s adds 80 jobs and 54 truck parking spaces to Fremont County.
In addition to the new Travel Stop, Cañon City will be home to a Love’s RV Stop with 125 RV parking spaces, scheduled to open in September.
“We’re excited not only to open two new Travel Stops, expanding our Highway Hospitality in Colorado, and Texas, but to soon serve RV customers with a new RV Stop,” said Shane Wharton, president of Love’s, in a press release Thursday. “The Travel Stops offer the same clean spaces and friendly faces customers have come to expect from Love’s, and the RV Stop is the latest example of our commitment to provide first-rate service to RV travelers.”
The Travel Stop now is open 24/7 and offers bean-to-cup gourmet coffee, brand-name snacks and Love’s Mobile to Go Zone with today’s latest technologies.
Cañon City resident Peggy Harris frequently patronized Love’s Travel Stop in Buena Vista because she so enjoys Love’s coffee.
She was there bright and early Thursday to enjoy a cup of love’s coffee much closer to home.
“They have the best coffee,” she said. “I can’t find as good of coffee anywhere else. It’s the best, and now I can come every day and get a cup of coffee.”
The new Love’s Travel Stop, which is more than 13,000 square feet, also offers 70 car parking spaces, five RV parking spaces on site, 125 hookups at the RV Stop nearby, six diesel bays, five showers, laundry facilities and a CAT scale.
When it opens in September, the Cañon City RV Stop will offer mobile booking at the Loves RV Stops website, https://www.camplife.com/campground/Loves+RV+Stops and the Love’s Connect App. It features a range of amenities, including an RV office with a selection of snacks, sundry items, ice, firewood and games; full utility hookups at each site, including 30/50-amp power, water and RV dump; picnic tables at all back-in parking spots; pavilion with picnic tables and a gas grill; communal fire pit; pickleball and basketball courts; cornhole boards; a walking trail; dog park; four restroom facilities; laundry facilities; showers and playground.
In addition, Arby’s will open at 7 a.m. Monday and it will be open 24/7, as well.
“It is important to us that we are providing opportunities for people in Fremont County to work in a good place,” Paulson said. “Parents can feel comfortable that their kids can come here and have a great experience for their first job and others can feel good about coming to work in a place where we truly care about and value each other.”
In honor of the grand opening, Love’s will donate $2,000 to the Cañon City Police Department for its Shop With a Cop program.
“We wanted it to be a significant and meaningful donation,” Paulson said.
