OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — take your plan into the field. Send it to your phone →

Units / Wyoming / Bison area 1

Absaroka · Bison area 1 · Wyoming

Bison hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and bison harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Bison area 1Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

78%

6,094,572 ac of 7,808,821 ac

Landlocked public

25,823 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

28%

of public · 1,704,839 ac

Walk-in access

370,791 ac

private land opened to hunting

Plan it

See it on the map →

Wyoming bison draw odds →

Same number, different ground: Elk area 1 →

Watch this unit — freeReturned and leftover tags, fire near the unit and weather warnings — by email. One unit free, no card.

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

Elevation4,020–13,420 ft
Median elevation6,720 ft
Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

4,020 ft13,420 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 28%
S 23%
W 23%

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 400 m grid. See the code →

Nearby bison bison areas

North Fork · Bison area 3 · 94% publicJackson · Bison area 2 · 82% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bison 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.