The mountain hut stands at 2,346 m in the upper Gößnitz valley and is managed from mid-June to mid-September.

[1] The hut has its own hydropower station to provide power and is exclusively supplied by helicopter.

The Elberfelder Hut is on the Vienna Ridgeway, which runs from the Iselsberg to the Glocknerhaus.

Its neighbouring huts are reached as follows: On 8 September 2016, shortly after take-off, a helicopter on the return leg of a supply flight to the Elberfelder Hut, crashed into the mountainside killing its pilot, Hannes Arch.

The hut manager, who had spontaneously decided to accompany Arch, was injured but was able to be rescued.