 The ring-dike complex is easy to identify within web-browsed satellite images, with its southeast edge located about northwest of the town center of Ossipee.Although of only moderate elevation, the topographic isolation of the Ossipee Mountains gives Shaw of prominence above the low ground separating it from the nearby Sandwich Range, the southernmost peaks of the White Mountains, making it one of twelve peaks in New Hampshire with a prominence over .Mount Shaw is located within the Castle in the Clouds estate.