Devils of Colorado: In this photo essay, we explore the Devil’s Punchbowl, the Devil’s Backbone and other locales blessed with heavenly beauty yet saddled with incongruously diabolical names. Story and photographs by Dawn Y. Wilson / Wild Animal Sanctuary: Visitors walk a mile-long pedestrian bridge rising 30 feet above lions, tigers, bears and other carnivores that have found a home near Keenesburg on the Eastern Plains. Story by Tom Hess, Photographs by Valerie Mosley & Vic Schendel / Pikes Peak Summit: Peopleride the cog railway to the brand-new Pikes Peak Summit Center to eat donuts at the 14,115-foot pinnacle of one of America’s best-loved mountains. Story by Tom Hess, Photographs by Joshua Hardin / Cedaredge Apples: Beneath Grand Mesa, the Western Slope apple capital of Cedaredge celebrates its fall harvest with apples by the bushelful and plenty of locally made cider at Applefest. By Leah M. Charney
