The range reaches a maximum elevation of 10,716 feet at the summit of Pilot Peak.

Its principal uses are mining, livestock grazing, and seasonal elk and deer hunting.

The abandoned railroad town of Lucin, Utah lies two miles north-east.

The range runs SSW to NNE,[3] with various canyons spurring east and west off a prominent ridgeline.

The largest is Bettridge Creek, a habitat for the threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout.