The northwest of Pine Valley contains a 12-mile (19 km) long Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station.

Steamboat Mountain, 8,588 feet (2,618 m), is west, south of the Indian Springs, but a northeasterly stretch of peaks, ridges, and hills form the southern border of the two ranges.

The northeast mountainous stretch is also a part of the northwest border of the Escalante Desert, which lies below at lower elevations.

Cow Camp and Electric Fence are in the sinks region at the north terminus of Pine Valley Wash.

A local road section of Pine Valley Road transits north from SR‑21, a due-north, straight stretch that borders the east of the Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station, traverses the west of north Pine Valley, adjacent to its terminus, and also crosses the east flank of the small Tunnel Springs Mountains.