It can be passed on a loop trail to General Grant, being about 200 ft (61 m) northwest of the tree itself.

[a] The brothers filed a claim to use 160 acres (65 hectares) of land in General Grant Grove for logging.

While grazing sheep at higher elevations, the two used the cabin for six years until 1878, when the United States General Land Office recommended that the area around the building be preserved as a public park.

[1] After the establishment of General Grant (now Kings Canyon) National Park in 1890, the United States Cavalry used it for hay and grain storage from 1891 to 1901.

[1] In the years since the area in front of the cabin has been updated with asphalt concrete trails and interpretive signs.