Units / Wyoming / Deer area 50

Upper Shell-Beaver Creek · Deer area 50 · 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 50Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

100%

85,637 ac of 85,640 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

10%

of public · 8,342 ac

mule deer · 2025

23.5% success

56 taken by 238 hunters · 1,161 days afield

56 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 18% · NR 36% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 36% → 24%

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,470–10,160 ft

Median elevation8,510 ft

Median slope15°

Where the ground sits

4,470 ft10,160 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 12%

E 18%

S 35%

W 36%

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

Beaver Creek · Deer area 51 · 74% public Tongue-Goose · Deer area 25 · 99% public Crystal Creek · Deer area 52 · 77% public Webber Canyon · Deer area 47 · 80% public

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.