OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — take your plan into the field. Send it to your phone →

Units / Wyoming / Deer area 3

Keyhole · Deer area 3 · 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 3Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

10%

20,937 ac of 212,216 ac

Landlocked public

3,582 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 119 ac

Walk-in access

2,378 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

43.7% success

160 taken by 366 hunters · 999 days afield

160 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 44% · NR 42% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 33% → 44%

Plan it

See it on the map →

Wyoming deer draw odds →

Same number, different ground: Elk area 3 →

Watch this unit — freeReturned and leftover tags, fire near the unit and weather warnings — by email. One unit free, no card.

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

Elevation3,940–5,540 ft
Median elevation4,240 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

3,940 ft5,540 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%
E 26%
S 22%
W 31%

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

Inyan Kara · Deer area 5 · 13% publicCampbell · Deer area 18 · 22% publicCrook · Deer area 1 · 21% publicBearlodge · Deer area 2 · 23% 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.