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.

[3] The road to Moro Rock is closed in winter, so visitors need to hike 2 miles to reach the viewpoint.

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.