A certain view sold Lee Milner on Colorado Springs ahead of his move to town in 1984.
Compared with the drive along Interstate 25 farther north, where the mountains loomed west of Denver, the view was much different here. Here there was a white, throne-like rock formation amid rolling bluffs to the east.
“When I saw Pulpit Rock driving down, I said, ‘Aah, this I think is the place,’” Milner once recalled. “Not only were the mountains to the west of the highway, but they were also to the east.”…