Same number, different ground: Deer area 87 → · Antelope area 87 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 87

Raspberry Ridge — Wyoming

91% public across 73,763 ac. Real backcountry here — 36% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. No landlocked public land.

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6,500–11,480 ft

elevation range

91%

public land

36%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

0.75

road miles per mi²

18 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 87: 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

■ USFS 91%□ Private 9%

Unit area73,763 ac

Public land67,373 ac (91%)

Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)

Elk draw pressure0.095 tags/mi² public (0.087 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)86 mi

Maintained trails18 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road23,940 ac (36% of public)

Road density0.75 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 67k ac

Elevation6,500–11,480 ft

Median elevation7,560 ft

Median slope11°

Where the ground sits

6,500 ft11,480 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%

E 15%

S 33%

W 33%

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

12,755 ac of this elk area has burned — 17% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 35%. 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 BIG PINEY-MARBLETON ARPT, 74 km from the unit’s center and ~600 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

26.8% success

132 taken by 492 hunters · 3,467 days afield

53 bulls · 0 spikes · 69 cows · 10 calves

Res 29% · NR 22% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 33% → 27%

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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What happens nextNov 2 — Elk point window closes — purchased-only, miss it and the year is gone · details →