• Colorado’s Yosemite: Eldorado Canyon State Park: Eldorado Canyon rises in gold, where climbing lore, geology and Front Range history converge in Colorado’s own miniature Yosemite. story and photographs by Joshua Hardin
• Still Western: Greeley Hat Works shoulders the time-honored tradition of hat making through a century of Western grit and identity in every brim. story by Ariella Nardizzi, photographs by David Sands
• Ways of the Bluebird: A look at Colorado’s mountain bluebird and how it moves through open country, marking the slow return of spring across the state’s fields, foothills and high plains. by Chris Amundson
• Jack Swigert: The story of Colorado’s own Apollo 13 astronaut who became a hometown hero, displaying courage in space that defined America’s legacy. by Lisa Truesdale

ON THE COVER: A radiant mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) soars through the air in Estes Park, bringing foraged material back to the nest as spring begins to bloom.