State Route 27 runs through Freeman, connecting it with Spokane Valley, about ten miles to the north, and the rest of the Spokane area. To the south, State Route 27 connects Freeman with numerous other small towns on the Palouse. Freeman itself is located on the northern edge of the Palouse farming region, with its gentle rolling hills giving way to the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains a few miles north and east of Freeman. Mica Peak and its foothills rise immediately to the east and Krell Hill with its TV towers are visible about five miles to the northwest. Little Cottonwood Creek, an ephemeral tributary of Latah Creek, flows from the slopes of Mica Peak and along the southeastern edge of the community.
