Same number, different ground: Deer area 65 → · Antelope area 65 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 65

Heart Mountain — Wyoming

63% public across 1,075,130 ac. Road access is easy — only 7% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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3,630–7,990 ft

elevation range

63%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

1,323 ac

landlocked public

1.54

road miles per mi²

41 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 65: 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

■ BLM 51%■ USBR 12%■ SLB 4%□ Private 37%

Unit area1,075,130 ac

Public land680,500 ac (63%)

Landlocked public1,323 ac (0.2%)

Elk draw pressure0.094 tags/mi² public (0.060 of total area)

Walk-in access34,125 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,590 mi

Maintained trails41 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road47,128 ac (7% of public)

Road density1.54 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 553k ac · USBR 131k ac · SLB 48k ac

Elevation3,630–7,990 ft

Median elevation4,430 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft7,990 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 28%

S 21%

W 25%

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

5,103 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, 102 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

23.3% success

90 taken by 386 hunters · 2,962 days afield

8 bulls · 0 spikes · 73 cows · 9 calves

Res 18% · NR 33% success

Elk hunter success · 2024–2025 · 30% → 23%

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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