This example (about 394 acres) of now rare bottomland forest in southeastern Missouri has a sand dune field of forested dunes with species like white oak, sugar maple, black walnut, Kentucky coffeetree, sassafras, and pawpaw that are usually found in upland forests. The wet swales support buttonbush, cottonwood, swamp red maple, will and corkwood, the lightest wood in North America. Seedlings and acorns have been planted in open fields on the area to help perpetuate the diverse forest community of the area.

The road to the single parking lot traverses grassland and the reforestation area. The dunes and bottomland forest are to the south of the lot.