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Mons Pico is a solitary Moon mountain that lies in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium basin, to the south of the dark-floored crater Plato and on the southern rim of a ghost crater. This peak forms part of the surviving inner ring of the Imbrium basin, continuing to the northwest and with the Montes Teneriffe and Montes Recti ranges, and probably to the southeast with the Montes Spitzbergen. This mountain feature is thought to have been named by Johann Hieronymus Schröter for Pico del Teide on Tenerife.
Due to its isolated location on the lunar mare, this peak can form prominent shadows when illuminated by oblique sunlight. It is also known as a location of Transient Lunar Anomalies.
A smaller peak to the southeast of Mons Pico is sometimes called Mons Pico β (Beta). This region of the mare contains a number of .
| B | 46.5° N | 15.3° W | 12 km |
| C | 47.2° N | 6.6° W | 5 km |
| D | 43.4° N | 11.3° W | 7 km |
| E | 43.0° N | 10.3° W | 9 km |
| F | 42.2° N | 10.2° W | 4 km |
| G | 46.6° N | 10.4° W | 4 km |
| K | 44.6° N | 7.5° W | 3 km |
Pico is the site of a climactic space battle in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Earthlight. It is also mentioned in passing in his novel as a storage repository of both virus and , and in his short story "The Sentinel" (in which Wilson, the protagonist, mentions having climbed it).
Pico is mentioned in the Jules Verne novel Around the Moon as the three main characters observe it from their spacecraft. Two of the travelers, Nichol and Ardan, suggest christening the nearby unnamed peak Barbicane, in honor of the third.
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