[2][3][4] The Gilson Mountains are an ovoid, or elliptical shaped range, about 11-mile (18 km) long, trending south-southwest by north-northeast.

Unimproved Gilson Road accesses the canyon on its north, and traverses to an area just northeast of Champlin Peak.

[1] U.S. Route 6 (US-6) traverses the northeast perimeter of the Sevier Desert, at the west and northwest flanks of the Gilson Mountains.

At Jericho Junction, Utah north of the range, an improved route goes west, then southwest into desert flatlands, hills, and dunefields of the Little Sahara Recreation Area to the Sand Mountain recreation site.

Utah State Route 132 (SR-132) from Lynndyl and Leamington to the west, traverses the south and southeast flanks of the range following the Sevier River rivercourse, and canyonland.