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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 117

Franc's Peak · Deer area 117 · Wyoming

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

Deer area 117Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

99%

273,878 ac of 275,352 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

74%

of public · 201,411 ac

Walk-in access

161 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

71.4% success

35 taken by 49 hunters · 411 days afield

35 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 64% · NR 100% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 69% → 71%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here

48 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 117

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation6,830–13,080 ft
Median elevation9,820 ft
Median slope23°

Where the ground sits

6,830 ft13,080 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 30%
S 23%
W 21%

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 deer deer areas

Meeteetse · Deer area 116 · 48% publicWall Mountain · Deer area 114 · 100% publicUpper Gooseberry Creek · Deer area 118 · 63% publicBoulder · Deer area 113 · 49% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer 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.