Same number, different ground: Deer area 98 → · Antelope area 98 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 98

Boulder — Wyoming

92% public across 1,236,901 ac. Road access is easy — only 16% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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6,270–12,400 ft

elevation range

92%

public land

16%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,434 ac

landlocked public

1.02

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.

4 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on Elk area 98: apply in the Wyoming draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 4 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 72%■ USFS 11%■ USBR 7%■ Other public 3%□ Private 8%

Unit area1,236,901 ac

Public land1,143,654 ac (92%)

Landlocked public2,434 ac (0.2%)

Elk draw pressure0.27 tags/mi² public (0.25 of total area)

Walk-in access12,273 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,966 mi

Maintained trails180 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road182,334 ac (16% of public)

Road density1.02 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 888k ac · USFS 131k ac · USBR 82k ac

Elevation6,270–12,400 ft

Median elevation7,030 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

6,270 ft12,400 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 19%

S 28%

W 31%

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

3,779 ac of this elk area has burned — 0% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 40%. 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, 38 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

36% success

392 taken by 1,089 hunters · 8,219 days afield

178 bulls · 19 spikes · 175 cows · 20 calves

Res 35% · NR 43% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 28% → 36%

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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