Same number, different ground: Deer area 36 → · Moose area 36 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 36

Rock Creek — Wyoming

68% public across 133,584 ac. Real backcountry here — 42% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. No landlocked public land.

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4,600–12,770 ft

elevation range

68%

public land

42%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

0.95

road miles per mi²

39 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 36: 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

■ USFS 53%■ SLB 8%■ SFW 6%■ Other public 1%□ Private 32%

Unit area133,584 ac

Public land90,712 ac (68%)

Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)

Elk draw pressure2.9 tags/mi² public (2.0 of total area)

Walk-in access2,271 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)198 mi

Maintained trails39 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road37,876 ac (42% of public)

Road density0.95 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 71k ac · SLB 11k ac · SFW 8k ac

Elevation4,600–12,770 ft

Median elevation6,940 ft

Median slope9°

Where the ground sits

4,600 ft12,770 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%

E 37%

S 22%

W 13%

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

8,515 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY AIRPORT, 37 km from the unit’s center and ~3,000 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

17.7% success

145 taken by 820 hunters · 5,918 days afield

78 bulls · 3 spikes · 50 cows · 14 calves

Res 16% · NR 22% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 18% → 18%

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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