State Road 90 from Silver City skirts the southern perimeter of the range on its route to Lordsburg.

Mangas Creek and its confluence with the lengthy Gila River that completely crosses Arizona is adjacent just northwest.

The Continental Divide starts to leave the forested mountain regions as it goes southwest from Silver City.

It passes from the southern Little Burro Mountains, crosses the Big Burro's, then on a circuitous route after skirting the northeast of the Cedar Mountain Range, it passes across the water divide of the north Playas Valley, west of Hachita.

It finally enters a series of north-south ranges, including the Animas Mountains, and travels south into northwest Chihuahua, Mexico.