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Unit research · Wyoming · Elk area 45

Paint Rock Creek — Wyoming

84% public hunting land across 497,941 ac. Road access is easy — only 17% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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3,890–13,120 ft

elevation range

84%

public hunting land

17%

of public >1 mi from a road

359 ac

landlocked public

1.53

road miles per mi²

113 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 45: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 8 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 43%■ Forest Service 36%■ State trust 4%■ Other hunting land 1%□ Private 16%

Unit area497,941 ac

Public hunting land417,445 ac (84%)

Parks & other public20 ac

Landlocked public359 ac (0.1%)

Elk draw pressure1.4 tags/mi² public (1.2 of total area)

Walk-in access3,024 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,193 mi

Mapped trails on public land113 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road69,555 ac (17% of public)

Road density1.53 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 214k ac · Forest Service 181k ac · State trust 18k ac

Elevation3,890–13,120 ft

Median elevation5,370 ft

Median slope7°

Where the ground sits

3,890 ft13,120 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 17%

E 16%

S 28%

W 40%

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

53,979 ac of this elk area has burned — 11% 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 WORLAND MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 45 km from the unit’s center and ~1,200 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

34.8% success

314 taken by 903 hunters · 6,753 days afield

154 bulls · 6 spikes · 136 cows · 18 calves

Res 32% · NR 47% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 42% → 35%

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, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby elk areas

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