Boyd Lake Getaway
A weekend at Boyd Lake State Park just outside Loveland — Cottonwood Shores Campground, right on the water and barely sixteen miles from the house. It’s our favorite season-opener for one reason: it’s a shakedown run. Something always works its way loose over the winter, and we’d much rather find it sixteen miles from home than six hundred. This year, it was the hot water. We pulled in, got leveled and set up, and went to fire the water heater for the evening — nothing. No hot water. A little
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