The Trödelsteine lies about 1.2 kilometres northeast of Emmerzhausen, 3.6 km southwest of Burbach and 2.6 km northwest of Lippe, which are both in the neighbouring county of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The state border between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia runs about 50 metres northeast of the summit - roughly along the lower part of the eponymous rock formation. On the Rhineland-Palatinate side a tributary of the Daaderises in the west on an area called Am Zollstock and, on the North Rhine-Westphalian side, the Buchheller tributary, the Nenkersbach, rises in the east. Neighbouring mountains are: to the north, the Nenkersberg (610.3 m) and, to the south-southeast, the Lipper Nürr (616.9 m).