Units / Wyoming / Elk area 106

Same number, different ground: Deer area 106 → · Antelope area 106 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 106

Unita — Wyoming

25% public across 468,276 ac. Road access is easy — only 15% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 19,383 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Elk draw odds (4)Odds and pins: free, no account

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6,550–9,760 ft

elevation range

25%

public land

15%

of public >1 mi from a road

19,383 ac

landlocked public

1.10

road miles per mi²

35 mi

maintained trails

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 106: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 4 draw hunts (2026)$62.00 resident · $707.00 nonresident

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

WGFD license fee list ↗Draw odds for Wyoming elk →How the Wyoming draw works →

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

■ BLM 15%■ SLB 5%■ USFS 4%□ Private 75%

Unit area468,276 ac

Public land114,849 ac (25%)

Landlocked public19,383 ac (16.9%)

Elk draw pressure1.5 tags/mi² public (0.30 of total area)

Walk-in access52,851 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)804 mi

Maintained trails35 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road17,139 ac (15% of public)

Road density1.10 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 68k ac · SLB 26k ac · USFS 21k ac

Elevation6,550–9,760 ft

Median elevation7,470 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

6,550 ft9,760 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%

E 26%

S 16%

W 31%

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

1,359 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

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

Measured at EVAN-UINTA CO BURNS FLD AP, 32 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

40.8% success

625 taken by 1,532 hunters · 11,447 days afield

191 bulls · 15 spikes · 372 cows · 47 calves

Res 38% · NR 58% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 43% → 41%

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)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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.

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