[2] Most of the eastern half of Gold Mountain is in the city watershed, with the Union River reservoir at the foot.

[3] The summit is about 660 feet (200 m) outside the city limits, six miles (9.7 km) west of downtown Bremerton.

[4] The mountain summit has an antenna farm including transmitters for Kitsap Peninsula area emergency services,[5] as well as Seattle television and radio stations KCPQ (Fox 13),[6] KTBW and KYFQ.

Since 1981, the Western Washington Repeater Association has operated an amateur radio repeater, call sign WW7RA, on the site,[7] with coverage throughout the Puget Sound region from Centralia to Bellingham.

[8][9] A Continuously Operating Reference Station used for GPS-based geodesy is located at the KTBW site on the summit.