Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Medoc Mountain State Park, as it makes the transition from green to gold.

In Friday’s post, we told you about four places you can hike in the Piedmont that are full of fall color, devoid of the fall crowds: the Ridgeline Trail near Charlotte, joining North Carolina’s Crowders Mountain State Park with South Carolina’s Kings Mountain State Park; the Sauratown Trail north of the Triad, linking Hanging Rock State Park with Pilot Mountain State Park to the west; the 60-mile Falls Lake portion of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail through the Triangle; and Medoc Mountain State Park in the quiet of the northeast Piedmont.

Today, we revisit Medoc Mountain for a little of the colorful tranquility that can come in so handy on a Monday morning.