It is located south-southwest of the Hamlet of Springfield Center, New York, west of Hutter Point and Six Mile Point of Otsego Lake, and southeast of Rum Hill.

Mohican Brook flows eastward along the southern edge of the hill.

Deerslayer was escaping the Hurons along the lake from the Sunken Island and began to move inland after a short distance, near Six Mile Point, and climbed the mountain, now known as Red House Hill.

At the top of the hill he hid under a log, and the Hurons passed him thinking he was gone, and went down into Mohican Canyon.

He then noticed he was surrounded on three sides and ran down the hill towards the lake, passing through the few Hurons left at Six Mile Point.