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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 165

YU Bench · Deer area 165 · 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 165Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

78%

165,489 ac of 213,355 ac

Landlocked public

40 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

2%

of public · 3,548 ac

Walk-in access

18,843 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

57.4% success

27 taken by 47 hunters · 294 days afield

27 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 57% · NR 60% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 67% → 57%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 4 hunts here

149 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,710–6,650 ft
Median elevation5,290 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

4,710 ft6,650 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 27%
E 27%
S 18%
W 27%

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% publicBoulder · Deer area 113 · 49% publicEmblem · Deer area 124 · 71% publicUpper Gooseberry Creek · Deer area 118 · 63% 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.