It is located in the center of the park, at the head of Moro Creek, between Giant Forest and Crescent Meadow.

A stairway, designed by the National Park Service and built in 1931, is cut into and poured onto the rock, so that visitors can hike to the top.

However, climbing is prohibited during peregrine falcon nesting season on the South and East faces (up to Full Metal Jacket).

Common in the Sierra Nevada, these domes form by exfoliation, the spalling or casting off in scales, plates, or sheets of rock layers on otherwise unjointed granite.

The 797-foot-long stairway was designed by National Park Service landscape architect Merel S. Sager and engineer John Diehl, following natural ledges and crevices.