Units / Wyoming / Sheep area 5
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 land
57%
972,515 ac of 1,696,928 ac
Landlocked public
12,509 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
42%
of public · 407,823 ac
Walk-in access
249,176 ac
private land opened to hunting
Bighorn sheep · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
77.8% success
28 taken by 36 hunters · 269 days afield
28 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns
Res 77% · NR 80% success
Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2021–2025 · 83% → 78%
Plan it
Wyoming bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →
40 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.