Savage Mountain is an anticline extending from Bedford County, Pennsylvania southwest into Western Maryland.

[3] It is the western side of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, and the eastern portion of the ridge forms the border of Garrett and Allegany Counties of Maryland.

The North Branch Potomac River watershed encompasses the southwestern and eastern portions of the ridge.

In 1911, construction began on the Borden and Big Savage Tunnels for the Connellsville subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway.

In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a connection road that is now the 6.4 mile Monroe Run Trail.