Units / Wyoming / Elk area 113

Same number, different ground: Deer area 113 → · Antelope area 113 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 113

Rochelle Hills — Wyoming

54% public across 550,792 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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

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4,190–5,270 ft

elevation range

54%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

7,265 ac

landlocked public

2.00

road miles per mi²

0 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 113: 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

■ USFS 47%■ SLB 6%■ BLM 1%□ Private 46%

Unit area550,792 ac

Public land298,989 ac (54%)

Landlocked public7,265 ac (2.4%)

Elk draw pressure0.39 tags/mi² public (0.21 of total area)

Walk-in access14,773 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,722 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road3,855 ac (1% of public)

Road density2.00 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 257k ac · SLB 35k ac · BLM 7k ac

Elevation4,190–5,270 ft

Median elevation4,660 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

4,190 ft5,270 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 27%

S 25%

W 24%

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

30,809 ac of this elk area has burned — 6% 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 NATRONA COUNTY INTERNATIONAL AP, 125 km from the unit’s center and ~700 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

87% success

349 taken by 401 hunters · 2,098 days afield

42 bulls · 45 spikes · 209 cows · 53 calves

Res 84% · NR 99% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 84% → 87%

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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