Units / Wyoming / Elk area 125

Same number, different ground: Deer area 125 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 125

Elk Mountain — Wyoming

33% public across 184,160 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,258 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Elk draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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6,590–11,060 ft

elevation range

33%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

3,258 ac

landlocked public

2.20

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.

2 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 125: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 2 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 25%■ SLB 8%□ Private 67%

Unit area184,160 ac

Public land61,265 ac (33%)

Landlocked public3,258 ac (5.3%)

Elk draw pressure2.7 tags/mi² public (0.85 of total area)

Walk-in access5,960 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)634 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road376 ac (1% of public)

Road density2.20 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 47k ac · SLB 15k ac

Elevation6,590–11,060 ft

Median elevation7,140 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

6,590 ft11,060 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 29%

E 19%

S 25%

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

11,266 ac of this elk area has burned — 6% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 14%. 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, 90 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

73.4% success

218 taken by 297 hunters · 1,539 days afield

118 bulls · 5 spikes · 92 cows · 3 calves

Res 70% · NR 77% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 53% → 73%

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

Kennaday Peak · Elk area 1258% public · 1% remote Medicine Bow River · Elk area 1138% public · 5% remote Spring Creek · Elk area 1561% public · 5% remote Shirley Mountain · Elk area 1654% public · 2% remote Seminoe · Elk area 11161% public · 3% remote Bolten Rim · Elk area 13047% public · 50% remote

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What happens nextNov 2 — Elk point window closes — purchased-only, miss it and the year is gone · details →