Units / Wyoming / Elk area 122

Same number, different ground: Deer area 122 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 122

Pine Ridge — Wyoming

26% public across 817,023 ac. Road access is easy — only 5% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 17,079 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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4,830–6,300 ft

elevation range

26%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

17,079 ac

landlocked public

1.47

road miles per mi²

8 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 122: 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 17%■ SLB 8%■ USBR 1%□ Private 74%

Unit area817,023 ac

Public land215,803 ac (26%)

Landlocked public17,079 ac (7.9%)

Elk draw pressure0.97 tags/mi² public (0.23 of total area)

Walk-in access4,477 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,871 mi

Maintained trails8 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road10,131 ac (5% of public)

Road density1.47 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 137k ac · SLB 69k ac · USBR 10k ac

Elevation4,830–6,300 ft

Median elevation5,510 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

4,830 ft6,300 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 23%

S 26%

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

47,965 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, 48 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

73.5% success

288 taken by 392 hunters · 1,739 days afield

141 bulls · 3 spikes · 144 cows · 0 calves

Res 75% · NR 73% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 70% → 74%

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.

Nearby elk areas

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