Parvin State Park is in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey,[1] 5 miles west of Vineland, in an agricultural area.

[2] Common types of bushes in the park include greenbrier, wild azaleas, mountain laurel, and sweet pepperbush.

[3] The wild turkey, barred owl, yellow-billed cuckoo, and many species of warblers live in the park's forests.

The lakes and Muddy Run are habitats of the prothonotary warbler, the great blue and green heron, the great egret, and more than a dozen species of ducks; black-crowned night herons, pied-billed grebes, and ospreys are also seen on the lakes occasionally.

The park was used in 1943 as a summer camp for the children of interned Japanese Americans, in 1944 as a prisoner of war camp for German soldiers from the Afrika Korps,[1][2] and in 1952 as temporary housing for Kalmyk Americans who fled their homelands in the USSR.