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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 66

Bates Hole-Hat Six · Deer area 66 · 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 66Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

50%

320,577 ac of 640,893 ac

Landlocked public

6,093 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 4,359 ac

Walk-in access

46,580 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

37.9% success

365 taken by 963 hunters · 3,647 days afield

362 bucks · 3 does · 0 fawns

Res 34% · NR 70% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 29% → 38%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

80 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 66 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,970–8,750 ft
Median elevation6,430 ft
Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

4,970 ft8,750 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%
E 22%
S 22%
W 26%

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

Casper Mountain · Deer area 67 · 9% publicKendrick · Deer area 88 · 51% publicShirley Mountain · Deer area 70 · 55% publicRattlesnake · Deer area 89 · 53% 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.