Units / Wyoming / Sheep area 17
Bighorn sheep hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and bighorn sheep harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public hunting land
66%
529,189 ac of 797,034 ac
Landlocked public
1,624 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
5%
of public · 27,014 ac
Walk-in access
25,176 ac
private land opened to hunting
Bighorn sheep · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
92.9% success
52 taken by 56 hunters · 255 days afield
19 rams · 33 ewes · 0 lambs
Res 100% · NR 100% · Res 100% · NR 100% · Res 96% · NR 100% · Res 67% · NR 100% success
Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2021–2025 · 100% → 93%
Plan it
Wyoming bighorn sheep draw odds — 4 hunts here →
70 tags drawn on this sheep area last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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 →
Nearby bighorn sheep sheep areas
Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bighorn sheep hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.