Same number, different ground: Antelope area 58 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 58

Sage Creek — Wyoming

33% public across 163,124 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,860–11,230 ft

elevation range

33%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

1,090 ac

landlocked public

1.47

road miles per mi²

13 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 58: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 2 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 15%■ SLB 8%■ USFS 7%■ Other public 3%□ Private 67%

Unit area163,124 ac

Public land53,948 ac (33%)

Landlocked public1,090 ac (2.0%)

Elk draw pressure0.31 tags/mi² public (0.10 of total area)

Walk-in access83,076 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)376 mi

Maintained trails13 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road761 ac (1% of public)

Road density1.47 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 24k ac · SLB 14k ac · USFS 11k ac

Elevation4,860–11,230 ft

Median elevation5,980 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

4,860 ft11,230 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 38%

E 27%

S 14%

W 21%

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

84 ac of this elk area has burned — 0% 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, 104 km from the unit’s center and ~1,800 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

57.1% success

168 taken by 294 hunters · 1,943 days afield

30 bulls · 0 spikes · 128 cows · 10 calves

Res 52% · NR 75% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 51% → 57%

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.

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