At 2,163 metres, the Gehrenspitze is the third highest mountain in the Tannheim Group and is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

West of the mountain is the Kellenspitze (2,238 m), north of the massif, the Große Schlicke and Musauer Berg (1,510 m), and, to the south is the Schneid (2,009 m).

Like the Tannheim Mountains, the Gehrenspitze is part of the Northern Limestone Alps, which started to form during the course of Alpine orogeny in the Cretaceous period, about 140 million years ago, a process that has still not quite finished today.

[2] In the area of the Gehrenspitze the Inn Valley Nappe pushes against the Wetterstein mass.

From the Gehrenjoch route 417b runs at UIAA grade I+ over the southern slopes through a gully in the col (clearly visible in the photograph taken from the south) between the summit and the subpeak.