Former Stapleton flight control tower opening to the public for the first time (but you’ll have to use the stairs)

Looming over the Central Park neighborhood in its bland shade of government gray, Stapleton International Airport’s former control tower has been a mystery to most since it went out of use in 1995 when Denver International Airport opened further east.

It sat vacant for two decades, and even after the building was sold, built on to and incorporated into the Punch Bowl Social restaurant in 2017, the 164-foot tower itself remained off-limits.

But on Nov. 15, the current tenant, FlyteCo Brewing, will open the tower to public tours for the first time, according to its owners, allowing people access to the kind of 360-degree views that haven’t been seen since Federal Aviation Administration employees left 28 years ago.

To visit, you’ll have to make reserv...