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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 121

Heart Mountain · Deer area 121 · 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 121Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

49%

146,041 ac of 297,341 ac

Landlocked public

620 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

5%

of public · 7,374 ac

Walk-in access

10,178 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

33.8% success

96 taken by 284 hunters · 1,051 days afield

76 bucks · 20 does · 0 fawns

Res 34% · NR 21% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 41% → 34%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

81 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,060–8,060 ft
Median elevation4,720 ft
Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

4,060 ft8,060 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 27%
E 25%
S 24%
W 24%

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

Bald Ridge · Deer area 109 · 58% publicShoshone River · Deer area 122 · 65% publicBeartooth · Deer area 105 · 82% publicElk Fork · Deer area 111 · 89% 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.