It and the neighbouring Marble Range line the east bank of the Fraser River north of the town of Lytton, British Columbia.

The range is horseshoe-shaped, facing the high rangeland-plateau basin of Hat Creek, which drains northeast to join the Bonaparte River, a tributary of the Thompson.

The outer flanks of the range are steep, particularly on the side of the Fraser, where the northerly peaks are a high plateau-edge almost 2,000 m (6,600 ft) above the river below.

Due to its location, it overlooked the great movement of prospectors during the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes although no major mines or deposits were found on its slopes.

At its northern extremity there is a large deposit of low-grade lignite, adjacent to Marble Canyon on the northwestern edge of the Hat Creek basin that has long been proposed for a major open-pit coal mine and coal-powered generating plant.