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Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 7

Laramie Peak — Wyoming

29% public across 2,589,426 ac. Road access is easy — only 8% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 46,050 ac of public land has no public route in.

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4,330–10,030 ft

elevation range

29%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

46,050 ac

landlocked public

1.40

road miles per mi²

77 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 7: 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 12%■ SLB 10%■ USFS 7%■ Other public 2%□ Private 71%

Unit area2,589,426 ac

Public land763,475 ac (29%)

Landlocked public46,050 ac (6.0%)

Elk draw pressure1.5 tags/mi² public (0.41 of total area)

Walk-in access292,154 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)5,666 mi

Maintained trails77 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road64,751 ac (8% of public)

Road density1.40 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 300k ac · SLB 250k ac · USFS 171k ac

Elevation4,330–10,030 ft

Median elevation6,830 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

4,330 ft10,030 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%

E 25%

S 26%

W 19%

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 400 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

217,443 ac of this elk area has burned — 8% 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 NATRONA COUNTY INTERNATIONAL AP, 103 km from the unit’s center and ~1,500 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

46.4% success

2,386 taken by 5,140 hunters · 48,084 days afield

783 bulls · 31 spikes · 1,348 cows · 224 calves

Res 47% · NR 45% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 37% → 46%

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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