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District 420 — Montana

47% public hunting land across 49,566 ac. Road access is easy — only 8% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 1,441 ac of public land has no public route in.

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4,480–7,780 ft

elevation range

47%

public hunting land

of public >1 mi from a road

1,441 ac

landlocked public

1.22

road miles per mi²

0 mi

trails on public land

Computed from primary government data by the AGPL pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

One limited-entry elk hunt is drawn on District 420: apply in the Montana draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$9.00 resident · $9.00 nonresident

Plus: Conservation license$8.00 resident · $10.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's regulations

2026 Deer/Elk/Antelope regulations (FWP PDF) ↗

FWP license fees for 2026 (fee schedule PDF) ↗Draw odds for Montana elk →How the Montana draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a district that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: FWP license fees for 2026 (fee schedule PDF) · 2026 Deer/Elk/Antelope regulations (FWP PDF) · 2026 Moose/Sheep/Goat/Bison regulations (FWP PDF) · FWP application & drawing dates · MCA 87-2-505 (B-10 combination, $1,312 eff. 2026-03-01).

Land & access

■ Forest Service 27%■ State wildlife 19%■ BLM 1%▨ Parks & other public 6%□ Private 47%

Unit area49,566 ac

Public hunting land23,244 ac (47%)

Parks & other public3,055 ac · Unknown manager

Landlocked public1,441 ac (6.2%)

Elk draw pressure2.3 tags/mi² public (1.0 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)94 mi

Mapped trails on public land0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road1,838 ac (8% of public)

Road density1.22 mi/mi²

Managed byForest Service 14k ac · State wildlife 9k ac · BLM 0k ac

Elevation4,480–7,780 ft

Median elevation5,350 ft

Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

4,480 ft7,780 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 30%

S 30%

W 16%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

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Burn history, migration coverage, and terrain for this district — The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at LEWISTOWN MUNICIPAL ARPT, 63 km from the unit’s center and ~1,200 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

80 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

34 bulls · 45 cows · 0 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 16 → 80

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

34% success

130 taken by 382 hunters · 2,558 days afield

111 bucks · 19 does · 0 fawns

NR 49% · Res 31% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 37% → 34%

Pronghorn · 2025

78 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

66 bucks · 12 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2004–2025 · 408 → 78

FWP survey estimates per hunting district, split resident and nonresident. These are estimates from FWP's hunter survey rather than registration counts — its own column legend reads "Estimate of…" — and that holds even for the limited-permit species, so they are not the same quantity as a state that counts checked animals. Bighorn sheep, moose and mountain goat are numbered in their own district systems, separate from the deer and elk districts and using the same numbers for different ground, so each is shown on its own geography. FWP publishes per-district hunter and effort estimates for deer, sheep, moose and goat; elk and antelope pages show harvest and composition without a district-level success rate, because inventing one from statewide effort would be wrong at this grain. Success rates are derived as harvest ÷ hunters from FWP's own published columns wherever both are given. Source: FWP Harvest Estimates search (myfwp.mt.gov) · FWP Harvest Estimates CSV export (sheep, moose and goat).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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