Same number, different ground: Antelope area 91 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 91

Salt River — Wyoming

61% public across 298,053 ac. Real backcountry here — 28% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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5,630–10,730 ft

elevation range

61%

public land

28%

of public >1 mi from a road

208 ac

landlocked public

2.06

road miles per mi²

180 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 91: 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 58%■ SLB 2%■ BLM 1%□ Private 39%

Unit area298,053 ac

Public land180,463 ac (61%)

Landlocked public208 ac (0.1%)

Elk draw pressure0.34 tags/mi² public (0.20 of total area)

Walk-in access1,736 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)960 mi

Maintained trails180 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road49,836 ac (28% of public)

Road density2.06 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 172k ac · SLB 5k ac · BLM 3k ac

Elevation5,630–10,730 ft

Median elevation7,150 ft

Median slope14°

Where the ground sits

5,630 ft10,730 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 23%

S 20%

W 36%

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

2,013 ac of this elk area has burned — 1% 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 BIG PINEY-MARBLETON ARPT, 70 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

40.2% success

516 taken by 1,283 hunters · 9,114 days afield

192 bulls · 14 spikes · 258 cows · 52 calves

Res 40% · NR 42% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 43% → 40%

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

Upper Greys River · Elk area 90100% public · 21% remote Lower Greys River · Elk area 89100% public · 36% remote Greys Feedground · Elk area 8882% public · 7% remote Raymond Mountain · Elk area 10376% public · 15% remote Lower Hoback · Elk area 8492% public · 68% remote Lincoln · Elk area 10475% public · 15% remote

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