Its highest point is the Windberg at 1,903 metres above sea level.

Other peaks are the Ameisbühel (also Amaißbichl, 1,828 m, in the east, on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border), the Schönhaltereck (1,860 m, west of the Windberg) and the Donnerwand (1,799 m, in the northwest).

The heavily wooded mountains and hills north of the Schneealpe are uninhabited.

The Schneealpen House and several alm huts are located the high plateau at a height of about 1,780 metres.

Drinking water is led through the Schneealpen Tunnel, built between 1965 and 1968 by the city of Vienna, to Hinternaßwald.