Girvin Conservation Area is flat river-bottom forest

John L. and Georgia Girvin Conservation Area is New Madrid County color that belongs to the Mississippi River bottoms. MDC says the 747-acre forested conservation area lies in parts of New Madrid and Pemiscot counties and was donated to the department in 1986 in memory of John L. and Georgia Girvin.

The area is not hill-country scenery. MDC describes about three miles of Mississippi River frontage, very flat topography, mostly bottomland riverfront forest, and elevation ranging from 270 to 280 feet above mean sea level. The whole tract is subject to periodic flooding.

For a landowner, hunter, angler, or visitor, that means wet conditions are part of the place. Check MDC’s area page and map before driving in, and expect river-bottom access rather than a paved park experience.