The heated two-story shelter was donated by Charles Loring and was used as a warming house, recreation center and kindergarten.

[6] In 2014 and 2015 Chipotle held their Cultivate free music and culinary festival in Loring Park.

[7] Walk the Moon, Atlas Genius, X Ambassadors, Anderson East, and Hippo Campus were all slotted to appear at the 2015 festival.

[8] Andrew Zimmern and Richard Blais also attended the event, a part of the festival's gratuitous "Chef Demos.

The huge winter event attracts thousands of people and runs weekends from Thanksgiving through Christmas and focuses on local food vendors, a performance stage, fireworks, locally produced holiday gifts, a large beer tent, visits with Santa and many events for children.

In addition, a skating rink and large warming house tent is set up which continues through early March as part of the event.

After returning to Loring Park in 2021 in a hybrid, more limited format and a full schedule in 2022, Holidazzle was put on hold for 2023 due to a lack of funding.

It opened in 1979, and though it is public space owned by the city, much of the award-winning landscaping has been maintained by volunteers with the Loring Greenway Association in the decades since.

Portions of the television series Man v. Food's first-season finale were filmed in Loring Park.