Tillman Road Wildlife Management Area is a wet lowland with an emergent marsh, open water, grassy fields, a deciduous swamp, and hardwood forest. Parking areas are located on Bergtold Road and on Tillman Road. Two hiking trails and a self-guided nature loop trail provide access, and a boardwalk with a viewing platform is located at the Bergtold Road entrance. Canada geese, mallards and wood ducks are the most abundant of these. Other birds attracted to the water here are green and great blue herons, American bittern, pied-billed grebe, and Virginia and sora rails.
Mammals are abundant here, too, although more secretive.
Watch for signs or tracks of muskrat and beaver, mink and raccoon. More upland species include white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbit and gray squirrel. Amphibian watching is excellent here. Painted turtles are very common and you may also see snapping turtle, garter and Northern water snakes. Dragonflies are everywhere and a variety of butterflies are attracted to wildflowers.