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Units / Wyoming / Elk area 10

Same number, different ground: Deer area 10 · Antelope area 10 · Moose area 10 · Sheep area 10

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 10

Rock Creek — Wyoming

30% public across 423,705 ac. Road access is easy — only 16% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 9,625 ac of public land has no public route in.

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6,990–11,860 ft

elevation range

30%

public land

16%

of public >1 mi from a road

9,625 ac

landlocked public

1.25

road miles per mi²

32 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

No draw hunts are published for this elk area. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations.

Season dates: see Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations

2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF)

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

USFS 15%BLM 8%SLB 7%□ Private 70%
Unit area423,705 ac
Public land126,168 ac (30%)
Landlocked public9,625 ac (7.6%)
Walk-in access96,367 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)825 mi
Maintained trails32 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road19,848 ac (16% of public)
Road density1.25 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 62k ac · BLM 32k ac · SLB 30k ac
Elevation6,990–11,860 ft
Median elevation7,310 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,990 ft11,860 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%
E 34%
S 23%
W 13%

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

1 ac of this elk area has burned — 0% of the unit. 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

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F33° high12° lowJFMAMJJASOND

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

Measured at LARAMIE REGIONAL AIRPORT, 27 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

24% success

306 taken by 1,274 hunters · 9,987 days afield

175 bulls · 13 spikes · 90 cows · 28 calves

Res 21% · NR 45% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 28% → 24%

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

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

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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