Units / Wyoming / Deer area 28
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.
Public land
100%
217,707 ac of 218,756 ac
Landlocked public
8 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
31%
of public · 68,290 ac
mule deer · 2025
18.4% success
52 taken by 282 hunters · 1,731 days afield
50 bucks · 2 does · 0 fawns
Res 19% · NR 15% success
mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 13% → 18%
Plan it
Same number, different ground: Elk area 28 →
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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
Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.