The volcanic peak is around 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of historic U.S. Route 66-National Old Trails Highway and of Interstate 40, and west of the town of Ludlow.

The mountain is currently owned by Can-Cal Resources Limited, a Canadian company specializing in exploration of precious minerals in California.

[7] It has lost much of its original cinder cone shape to ongoing aggregate mining operations, in addition to minor natural erosion.

Some believe that Pisgah Volcano is the youngest vent, of four cinder cones, in the Lavic Lake volcanic field.

Lava at nearby and similarly active Amboy Crater is interbedded with Bristol Playa sediments at a depth of about 9 meters (30 feet) which are approximately 100,000 years old.

It is believed that most of the present cinder cone consists of pyroclastic material that originated from this final eruption.

[11] The lava found around the volcano consists of a'a and pahoehoe, with considerable concentrations of olivine (weathering to iddingsite) and plagioclase.