A section of the A 5 autobahn runs past the lower slopes of the Steinkopf on the eastern side, between the services at Rasthof Wetterau and the junction of Friedberg.

According to investigations by a team from the University of Marburg, a meteorite may have fallen between the Steinkopf and the Salzberg (341.1 m), 2.7 km to the south-southeast near Ober-Rosbach, which could have formed the valley of the Fahrenbach, which resembles an impact crater.

A precise geological investigation of rock samples could not find any indications of impact metamorphism, only quartzite with the usual deformations caused by orogeny.

[3] The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes runs along the western flanks of the Steinkopf and has three forts (Kleinkastell), one at Kaisergrube in the northwest and two near the Kuhkopf.

On the summit region of the Steinkopf is a 105.35-metre-high[4] high telecommunication tower (Typenturm), which may be seen in good weather from Frankfurt over the Wetterau to the Vogelsberg.

On the south-eastern slopes of the Saukopf, southwest of the Steinkopf and also near Ober-Rosbach there was a quartzite-quarry, parts of which have become a nature reserve since 2010 called the Quarzitbruch bei Rosbach (CDDA-No.

Through a citizens' initiative, people in Ober-Mörlen, Bad Nauheim and Friedberg succeeded, with the help of donations from companies, institutions, etc., in erecting a new, higher, five-story wooden tower (17.65 m)[7] with two viewing platforms built entirely from Douglas Fir wood and called Winterstein.

From there, at a height of 498.41 m[9] the view extends to the Westerwald to the northwest, to the Gladenbach Uplands to the north, to the Wetterau to the east and, beyond that, to the Vogelsberg, to the Spessart to the southeast and to Frankfurt to the south and, beyond it, to the Odenwald.

Starting in Pfaffenwiesbach to the west, it runs through the valley of the Wiesbach to the Limes at Kapersburg and continues through the forest to the Kuhkopf (approx.