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Unit research · Wyoming · Elk area 23

Rattlesnake — Wyoming

53% public hunting land across 810,587 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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5,110–8,190 ft

elevation range

53%

public hunting land

of public >1 mi from a road

4,875 ac

landlocked public

1.36

road miles per mi²

0 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

6 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 23: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 6 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 42%■ State trust 9%■ Reclamation 2%□ Private 47%

Unit area810,587 ac

Public hunting land428,409 ac (53%)

Parks & other public905 ac · County

Landlocked public4,875 ac (1.1%)

Elk draw pressure0.60 tags/mi² public (0.32 of total area)

Walk-in access140,108 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,725 mi

Mapped trails on public land0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road13,848 ac (3% of public)

Road density1.36 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 337k ac · State trust 72k ac · Reclamation 20k ac

Elevation5,110–8,190 ft

Median elevation6,060 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

5,110 ft8,190 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%

E 27%

S 24%

W 20%

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 · Pro, $5 a month or $49 a year

8,879 ac of this elk area has burned — 1% 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, 40 km from the unit’s center and ~700 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

42.6% success

204 taken by 479 hunters · 4,666 days afield

102 bulls · 2 spikes · 86 cows · 14 calves

Res 40% · NR 54% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 52% → 43%

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 →

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