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The name
A blue roan mustang gave the rock its name
The name Moro Rock comes from a blue roan mustang of the color the Mexicans call moro. The horse belonged to a Mr Swanson of Three Rivers in the 1860s.
1917
The first stairway was made of wood, in 1917
The first stairway to the summit was built of wood and installed in 1917. By the late 1920s it had deteriorated badly, and it was replaced.
1931
The Civilian Conservation Corps built the present stairway in 1931
The present stairway was built in 1931 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Park service landscape architect Merel S. Sager and the engineer John Diehl designed it to follow natural ledges and crevices and to blend with the rock. It is 797 feet long, cut into and poured onto the rock, and it has 400 steps to the summit.
400steps lead to the summit of Moro Rock
The dome
A granite dome that sheds its skin in sheets
Moro Rock is a dome of granite in the center of Sequoia National Park, between Giant Forest and Crescent Meadow. Domes like this form by exfoliation, when the granite casts off scales and sheets of rock. The view from the top takes in much of the park, including the Great Western Divide.
Day 4, evening
It comes after Panoramic Point.
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