 In its lower reaches, it is suburban residential in nature, but in the upper reaches it becomes semi-rural, with farmlets and farms as some of the properties closer to the top of Pine Hill Road and Campbells Road, the only other road of any great length in the suburb.From Campbells Road, there are views across North East Valley and Normanby to the suburb of Opoho and the summit of Signal Hill, to the east.The upper section of Pine Hill around Campbells Road is occasionally referred to as Pine Heights, but not recognised by the Dunedin City Council,or maps, and has no separate postcode.