Same number, different ground: Deer area 97 → · Antelope area 97 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 97

Pinedale — Wyoming

85% public across 303,094 ac. Real backcountry here — 56% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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6,850–13,560 ft

elevation range

85%

public land

56%

of public >1 mi from a road

910 ac

landlocked public

1.15

road miles per mi²

258 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 97: 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 56%■ BLM 26%■ SLB 2%■ Other public 2%□ Private 15%

Unit area303,094 ac

Public land257,763 ac (85%)

Landlocked public910 ac (0.4%)

Elk draw pressure0.62 tags/mi² public (0.53 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)546 mi

Maintained trails258 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road144,606 ac (56% of public)

Road density1.15 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 168k ac · BLM 79k ac · SLB 5k ac

Elevation6,850–13,560 ft

Median elevation8,070 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

6,850 ft13,560 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 16%

E 21%

S 29%

W 34%

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

3,968 ac of this elk area has burned — 1% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 33%. 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, 47 km from the unit’s center and ~1,100 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

28.2% success

140 taken by 497 hunters · 4,239 days afield

86 bulls · 3 spikes · 44 cows · 7 calves

Res 24% · NR 40% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 30% → 28%

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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