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Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 8

Boulder Ridge — Wyoming

20% public across 241,005 ac. Real backcountry here — 26% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 6,853 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Elk draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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7,140–9,650 ft

elevation range

20%

public land

26%

of public >1 mi from a road

6,853 ac

landlocked public

0.70

road miles per mi²

6 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 8: 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 10%■ SLB 8%■ FWS 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 80%

Unit area241,005 ac

Public land47,674 ac (20%)

Landlocked public6,853 ac (14.4%)

Elk draw pressure2.2 tags/mi² public (0.37 of total area)

Walk-in access32,407 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)265 mi

Maintained trails6 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road12,217 ac (26% of public)

Road density0.70 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 24k ac · SLB 20k ac · FWS 2k ac

Elevation7,140–9,650 ft

Median elevation7,470 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

7,140 ft9,650 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 31%

E 24%

S 19%

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

279 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 LARAMIE REGIONAL AIRPORT, 24 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

50.1% success

189 taken by 377 hunters · 3,249 days afield

53 bulls · 3 spikes · 130 cows · 3 calves

Res 50% · NR 50% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 33% → 50%

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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