The Hohe Warte rises as part of the eastern slope of the Rothaargebirge in the Elbrighäuser Forest, which belongs to the Ederbergland hinterland.

610 m) and the Riedgraben at the neighbouring Hintersten Kopf (604.5 m) to the southwest, and in North Rhine-Westphalia the mountain is passed in the west by the Elsoff, which flows through Alertshausen; they are all Eder tributaries.

33) on the border of the main unit Ostsauerländer Gebirgsrand (332) with the subunit Hinterländer Ederbergland (332.1) and the natural area Elbrighäuser Wald (332.11) approximately in the southeast to the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland) (333) with the subunit Winterberger Hochland (333.5) and the Wilde Struth natural area (333.50) in the northwest[1].

To the northeast, the landscape of the Hohe Warte descends into the Elbrighäuser Bach nature reserve (CDDA no.

To the west, past the Hohe Warte, the Landesstraße 877 (Diedenshausen–Alertshausen–Elsoff) runs in a north-northeast-south-southwest direction on the Westphalian side.