East Pocket Knob is located 7.5 miles (12.1 km) north of Sedona in the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness, on land managed by Coconino National Forest.

[3] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) above Oak Creek Canyon in one mile (1.6 km).

[3] East Pocket Knob is composed of a layer of dark-gray basalt overlaying light-colored Coconino Sandstone.

Young Trail to the fire lookout tower at the summit covers two miles (one-way) with 33 switchbacks and 1,950 feet of elevation gain.

(Bear) Howard in the 1880s to access grazing pastures on the plateau, then it was reconstructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps as supervised by A.B.