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Units / Wyoming / Elk area 92

Same number, different ground: Deer area 92 · Antelope area 92

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 92

Piney-Horse Creek — Wyoming

55% public across 421,686 ac. Real backcountry here — 32% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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6,810–11,050 ft

elevation range

55%

public land

32%

of public >1 mi from a road

1,900 ac

landlocked public

0.79

road miles per mi²

213 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Tags: check Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

No draw hunts are published for this elk area. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations.

Season dates: see Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations

2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF)

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 32%BLM 19%SLB 3%□ Private 45%
Unit area421,686 ac
Public land230,829 ac (55%)
Landlocked public1,900 ac (0.8%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)524 mi
Maintained trails213 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road73,815 ac (32% of public)
Road density0.79 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 137k ac · BLM 80k ac · SLB 14k ac
Elevation6,810–11,050 ft
Median elevation7,620 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,810 ft11,050 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 29%
E 23%
S 30%
W 18%

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

59,286 ac of this elk area has burned — 14% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 61%. 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

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F26° high1° lowJFMAMJJASOND

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at BIG PINEY-MARBLETON ARPT, 40 km from the unit’s center and ~700 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

39.1% success

497 taken by 1,271 hunters · 10,594 days afield

181 bulls · 5 spikes · 272 cows · 39 calves

Res 39% · NR 40% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 22% → 39%

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)

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

Monument Ridge · Elk area 8697% public · 50% remoteWaterdog Lakes · Elk area 9365% public · 34% remoteRaspberry Ridge · Elk area 8791% public · 36% remoteNew Fork · Elk area 9669% public · 50% remoteUpper Greys River · Elk area 90100% public · 21% remoteSouth Piney · Elk area 9475% public · 11% remote

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