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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 127

Cottonwood · Deer area 127 · 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 127Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

78%

133,127 ac of 170,037 ac

Landlocked public

158 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

4%

of public · 4,744 ac

Walk-in access

3,421 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

26.8% success

30 taken by 112 hunters · 371 days afield

30 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 29% · NR 17% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 25% → 27%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

51 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 127 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,160–5,860 ft
Median elevation4,770 ft
Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

4,160 ft5,860 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 26%
S 28%
W 18%

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

Hamilton Dome · Deer area 120 · 15% publicCopper Mountain · Deer area 37 · 51% publicFifteen Mile · Deer area 125 · 88% publicNowater · Deer area 164 · 90% 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.