Same number, different ground: Deer area 35 → · Moose area 35 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 35

Hunter Mesa — Wyoming

71% public across 160,704 ac. Road access is easy — only 24% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,630–12,300 ft

elevation range

71%

public land

24%

of public >1 mi from a road

604 ac

landlocked public

1.63

road miles per mi²

43 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

6 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 35: 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

■ USFS 64%■ SLB 6%■ BLM 1%□ Private 29%

Unit area160,704 ac

Public land113,743 ac (71%)

Landlocked public604 ac (0.5%)

Elk draw pressure2.3 tags/mi² public (1.6 of total area)

Walk-in access896 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)408 mi

Maintained trails43 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road27,745 ac (24% of public)

Road density1.63 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 103k ac · SLB 10k ac · BLM 1k ac

Elevation4,630–12,300 ft

Median elevation7,740 ft

Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

4,630 ft12,300 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 31%

E 36%

S 24%

W 9%

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

1,354 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY AIRPORT, 55 km from the unit’s center and ~3,800 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

26.5% success

143 taken by 540 hunters · 5,376 days afield

49 bulls · 8 spikes · 76 cows · 10 calves

Res 25% · NR 30% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 25% → 27%

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

Rock Creek · Elk area 3668% public · 42% remote Upper Powder River · Elk area 3441% public · 7% remote Paint Rock Creek · Elk area 4584% public · 17% remote Goose · Elk area 3754% public · 37% remote Non-Herd Unit · Elk area 12918% public · 8% remote Medicine Lodge · Elk area 4185% public · 9% remote

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