Rickard Mountain is a 1,637-foot-high mountain in the Bear Pond Mountains area that runs south to north in the Ridge and Valley System of the Appalachians. The southern side of the ridge starts near Blair's Valley Lake, where Blair's Valley and Polecat Hollow meet. The northern ridge end and the high point of Rickard Mountain is south of Kasies Knob and north of the Mason Dixon Line. Rickard does not have any maintained trails, and those trails that do exist are not marked, so hiking Rickards is pretty much a solid bushwhack whichever direction you take. There is a logging road that follows the ridgeline for almost the entire mountain. The summit does not offer any views, but there are some nice talus fields and ledges from which the views open to the west.

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