Same number, different ground: Deer area 1 → · Antelope area 1 → · Moose area 1 → · Sheep area 1 → · Goat area 1 → · Bison area 1 →
Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 1
Black Hills — Wyoming
86% public across 64,348 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. No landlocked public land.
Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →
Tags & season
Draw hunts on this ground.
4 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 1: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.
Season dates: see Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations
2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF) ↗
Wyoming elk draw calendar
- Nov 2, 2026 — point window closes — purchased-only, miss it and the year is gone
Fees and draw dates from Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a elk area that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: 2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF) · WGFD license fee list · WGFD preference points · WGFD application dates & deadlines.
Land & access
Backcountry
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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 →
Unit intelligence report
2,483 ac of this elk area has burned — 4% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.
Season conditions — measured, not vibes
Historical temperatures · 2000–2025
Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month
Measured at ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, 84 km from the unit’s center and ~2,300 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.
Harvest — agency survey estimates
Elk · 2025
58% success
98 taken by 169 hunters · 1,767 days afield
47 bulls · 12 spikes · 25 cows · 14 calves
Res 58% · NR 58% success
Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 42% → 58%
WGFD estimates harvest statistics from a voluntary hunter survey run with the University of Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center. "Hunters" are active hunters (license holders who actually hunted). Hunt areas are species-specific geographies. Source: WGFD Annual Harvest Reports (per species-year PDFs) · WGFD Job Completion Reports (per herd unit: population, harvest, success).
How these numbers are made
Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.
Nearby elk areas
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