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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 15

Southeast Wyoming · Deer area 15 · 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 15Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

10%

337,888 ac of 3,391,636 ac

Landlocked public

59,656 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

12%

of public · 41,276 ac

Walk-in access

234,475 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

51.3% success

737 taken by 1,438 hunters · 5,835 days afield

651 bucks · 71 does · 15 fawns

Res 46% · NR 67% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 43% → 51%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

532 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 15 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,030–6,390 ft
Median elevation5,010 ft
Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

4,030 ft6,390 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 23%
S 27%
W 22%

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 deer deer areas

South Laramie Mountains · Deer area 59 · 13% publicLaramie Peak · Deer area 64 · 31% publicPole Mountain · Deer area 60 · 23% publicLusk · Deer area 13 · 16% 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.