Santa Ana Peak is located eight miles (13 km) east of Seward in the Kenai Mountains, on land managed by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.

Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from the mountain drains west to Resurrection Bay via Fourth of July Creek and from the east slope to Day Harbor.

The mountain's toponym was officially adopted June 13, 2019, by the United States Board on Geographic Names.

[1] The mountain is named for the wooden steamship Santa Ana which brought Seward's founders to this area in 1903.

[4] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Kenai Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.