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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 70

Shirley Mountain · Deer area 70 · 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 70Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

57%

422,265 ac of 736,159 ac

Landlocked public

2,492 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

2%

of public · 9,904 ac

Walk-in access

112,189 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

34.3% success

188 taken by 548 hunters · 2,245 days afield

188 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 33% · NR 43% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 25% → 34%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here

47 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 70

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation5,850–9,120 ft
Median elevation6,970 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

5,850 ft9,120 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 20%
S 30%
W 23%

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

Ferris · Deer area 87 · 68% publicBates Hole-Hat Six · Deer area 66 · 50% publicKennaday Peak · Deer area 79 · 47% publicKyle · Deer area 74 · 25% 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.