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Units / Wyoming / Elk area 30

Same number, different ground: Deer area 30 · Antelope area 30 · Moose area 30

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 30

Aspen Mountain — Wyoming

58% public across 353,396 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. No landlocked public land.

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6,030–8,660 ft

elevation range

58%

public land

3%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

1.93

road miles per mi²

16 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

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4 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 30: 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, 2026point window closes — purchased-only, miss it and the year is gone

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 51%SLB 5%USFS 2%□ Private 42%
Unit area353,396 ac
Public land203,666 ac (58%)
Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)
Elk draw pressure0.35 tags/mi² public (0.20 of total area)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,066 mi
Maintained trails16 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road6,158 ac (3% of public)
Road density1.93 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 179k ac · SLB 17k ac · USFS 7k ac
Elevation6,030–8,660 ft
Median elevation6,980 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,030 ft8,660 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%
E 19%
S 25%
W 26%

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

2,982 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

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F30° high15° lowJFMAMJJASOND

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at RCK SRINGS-SWETWTER CO APT, 26 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

69.4% success

102 taken by 147 hunters · 993 days afield

38 bulls · 0 spikes · 56 cows · 8 calves

Res 68% · NR 75% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 81% → 69%

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)

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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