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
17%
36,777 ac of 212,216 ac
Landlocked public
3,582 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
3%
of public · 1,245 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
Same number, different ground: Elk area 3 →
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; 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.