Rising over Rocky Valley, it is located in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

[1][2] The Lookout is described in the Bucks County Natural Areas Inventory Update[3] and the Springfield Township Conservation Plan[4] as one of five outstanding geological features of Pennsylvania located in the county and is designated as a Priority 2 site, an area that has 'countywide or statewide significance based on overall quality and the diversity and importance of the resources'.

The Lookout is part of a circular formation, which surrounds the Quakertown area, of diabase intrusion that occurred during the Triassic approximately 200 million years ago.

A similar formation is located around the area which includes Pennsburg, East Greenville, and Red Hill, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

[3] The diabase is typically dark gray to black, dense, and fine grained, consisting of predominately labradorite and augite.