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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 122

Shoshone River · Deer area 122 · 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 122Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

65%

411,967 ac of 634,796 ac

Landlocked public

436 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

7%

of public · 27,913 ac

Walk-in access

10,672 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

23.3% success

139 taken by 597 hunters · 2,252 days afield

98 bucks · 33 does · 8 fawns

Res 21% · NR 50% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 32% → 23%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here

54 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 122

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,630–6,510 ft
Median elevation4,350 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft6,510 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 30%
S 20%
W 26%

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

Yellowtail · Deer area 123 · 42% publicHeart Mountain · Deer area 121 · 50% publicEmblem · Deer area 124 · 71% publicCrystal Creek · Deer area 52 · 77% 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.