Dick's Knob is located in the Southern Nantahala Wilderness in the Chattahoochee National Forest on Pot Gap Ridge near the North Carolina border.

Nearby geographical features include the Tallulah River, Standing Indian Mountain and Grassy Ridge.

[3] Dicks Knob is part of the southern Crystalline Appalachians.

[5] The summit of Dick's Knob was burned during the 2016 Rock Mountain Fire.

However, the mountain can be reached by hiking off-trail south from the Appalachian Trail at Beech Gap or east from the Tate Branch Campground near Tate City.