The suburb is connected with Dunedin's CBD by way of two streets – the narrow and winding Gladstone Road, and the Pine Hill Extension.

This winds up the steep flanks of Dalmore above the valley of the Water of Leith before a tricky junction which connects the extension with the upper part of Pine Hill Road and the Dunedin Northern Motorway.

It lies immediately above Dalmore, on a series of avenues and crescents which branch from Pine Hill Road.

[3] A tiny arcade of shops lies at the end of Dalmore and beginning of Liberton, but other than this the suburb is entirely residential.

At one time there were plans to create a subdivision linking Liberton with Selwyn Street, North East Valley, but these never came to fruition.

The term is commonly used by people living in houses on the hill, in what used to be farmland, to separate themselves from the state house-dominated lower suburbs.

Pine Hill Road continues to climb into rural land above the top of the suburb, connecting with Maxwellton Street, a narrow rural road which crosses a bridge over the Dunedin Northern Motorway before connecting with Patmos Avenue in the suburb of Glenleith.

Other than Pine Hill School, the major landmarks within the area are the early 1950s Aquinas College, a University of Otago hall of residence on the slopes of Dalmore, and the impressive Santa Sabina Convent building,[4] which lies close to the top of Buccleugh Street between Liberton and North East Valley.