Stanwell Tops is a rural and residential area bounded by Otford and Lady Wakehurst Drive in the north, the locality of Clifton, the Illawarra Escarpment, the Wodi-Wodi Track, Stanwell Creek and the locality of Maddens Plains in the south and the Southern Freeway in the west.

Major features of Stanwell Tops are Kelly's Falls, Wodi Wodi Track, Bald Hill Lookout, Henry Halloran Park, Hindu Temple, The Garden of Peace and Tops Christian Conference Centre.

Some may say Stanwell Tops is a hang gliders paradise.