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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 8

Upton-Four Horse · Deer area 8 · 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 8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

27%

99,061 ac of 360,781 ac

Landlocked public

2,383 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 573 ac

Walk-in access

4,783 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

43.1% success

69 taken by 160 hunters · 696 days afield

69 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 48% · NR 37% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 43% → 43%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

53 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 8 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,150–5,140 ft
Median elevation4,530 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

4,150 ft5,140 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%
E 31%
S 20%
W 27%

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

South Osage · Deer area 7 · 29% publicThunder Basin · Deer area 21 · 18% publicInyan Kara · Deer area 5 · 13% publicKeyhole · Deer area 3 · 10% 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.