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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 36

Badwater · Deer area 36 · 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 36Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

68%

391,754 ac of 576,127 ac

Landlocked public

1,434 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

4%

of public · 15,933 ac

Walk-in access

4,873 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

68.9% success

71 taken by 103 hunters · 439 days afield

71 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 69% · NR 69% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 36% → 69%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

110 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 36 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,610–8,910 ft
Median elevation5,740 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

4,610 ft8,910 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 18%
E 23%
S 30%
W 29%

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

Bates Creek · Deer area 39 · 65% publicUpper Nowood · Deer area 35 · 38% publicMuskrat · Deer area 90 · 79% publicCopper Mountain · Deer area 37 · 51% 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.