Units / Wyoming / Deer area 97
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.
Public hunting land
83%
484,124 ac of 581,127 ac
Landlocked public
39 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
4%
of public · 17,722 ac
Walk-in access
40,231 ac
private land opened to hunting
mule deer · 2025
24.8% success
38 taken by 153 hunters · 517 days afield
38 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns
Res 23% · NR 35% success
mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 19% → 25%
Plan it
Same number, different ground: Elk area 97 →
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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
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.