[3] The 53 mile Batona Trail runs through parts of the preserve[4] and the preserve provides habitat for rare, threatened or endangered species including bobcats, bald eagles, barred owls, northern pine snakes and pine barrens tree frogs.

The farm was owned by Garfield DeMarco, an influential Burlington County Republican Chairman.

[8] After securing additional adjacent tracts of land from private owners in 2015 and 2016 the total acreage of the preserve is now 11,379.

[9] The preserve is named after Franklin E. Parker III, the first chairman of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission.

Located in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the preserve has two entrances, each with a sandy parking lot.