Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 54

Bald Ridge — Wyoming

68% public across 334,702 ac. Real backcountry here — 32% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,020–12,070 ft

elevation range

68%

public land

32%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,725 ac

landlocked public

0.98

road miles per mi²

65 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 54: 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

■ USFS 42%■ BLM 19%■ SLB 5%■ Other public 2%□ Private 32%

Unit area334,702 ac

Public land227,922 ac (68%)

Landlocked public2,725 ac (1.2%)

Elk draw pressure0.31 tags/mi² public (0.21 of total area)

Walk-in access5,891 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)515 mi

Maintained trails65 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road72,372 ac (32% of public)

Road density0.98 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 140k ac · BLM 63k ac · SLB 17k ac

Elevation4,020–12,070 ft

Median elevation6,380 ft

Median slope11°

Where the ground sits

4,020 ft12,070 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 38%

S 26%

W 14%

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

19,589 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 YELLOWSTONE, 93 km from the unit’s center and ~1,400 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

68.7% success

195 taken by 284 hunters · 1,942 days afield

75 bulls · 2 spikes · 109 cows · 9 calves

Res 69% · NR 69% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 41% → 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)
# 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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