Same number, different ground: Deer area 11 → · Antelope area 11 → · Moose area 11 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 11

Medicine Bow River — Wyoming

38% public across 443,224 ac. Road access is easy — only 5% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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6,530–11,840 ft

elevation range

38%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

3,229 ac

landlocked public

1.76

road miles per mi²

31 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 11: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 8 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 13%■ USFS 12%■ SLB 8%■ Other public 5%□ Private 62%

Unit area443,224 ac

Public land168,290 ac (38%)

Landlocked public3,229 ac (1.9%)

Elk draw pressure1.6 tags/mi² public (0.59 of total area)

Walk-in access70,958 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,216 mi

Maintained trails31 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road8,491 ac (5% of public)

Road density1.76 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 56k ac · USFS 55k ac · SLB 35k ac

Elevation6,530–11,840 ft

Median elevation7,200 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

6,530 ft11,840 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 36%

E 20%

S 17%

W 27%

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

18 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 LARAMIE REGIONAL AIRPORT, 63 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

53.9% success

393 taken by 729 hunters · 6,000 days afield

157 bulls · 10 spikes · 190 cows · 36 calves

Res 52% · NR 62% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 47% → 54%

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)
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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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