Medoc Mountain is not really a mountain at all, but more of elongated slab of biotite granite (also called black mica) rising 325 feet above sea level. It is all that remains after millions of years of erosion of a once larger mountain chain. For the eastern part of North Carolina this is a “high peak”. The park sits near the fall line, an area where the hard, resistant rocks of the foothills give way to the softer rocks and sediments of the coastal plain. The northern and western faces of Medoc Mountain have very steep slopes, dropping 160 feet over a distance of less than a quarter mile. Such rugged terrain is unusual for the eastern piedmont.

A extensive forest of oaks, beech, holly, maples, pines and other trees over the park except for the open meadows near the parking area where the picnic tables are located. There are a variety of wildflowers that bloom in the spring and summer many of which are more common in the foothills and mountains of western NC. In late spring the bluffs and ravines are covered with mountain laurel blossoms.

This is what I saw on my visit on April 1st, 2007. It was my second trip to the park since the spring of 2000. There were a few spring wildflowers, but I think most were yet to bloom this early.