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Units / Wyoming / Goat area 5

South Absaroka · Goat area 5 · Wyoming

Mountain goat hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and mountain goat harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Goat area 5Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

75%

2,309,842 ac of 3,090,564 ac

Landlocked public

13,841 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

65%

of public · 1,496,104 ac

Walk-in access

250,482 ac

private land opened to hunting

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,320–13,020 ft
Median elevation8,160 ft
Median slope14°

Where the ground sits

4,320 ft13,020 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 27%
S 24%
W 24%

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 400 m grid. See the code →

Nearby mountain goat goat areas

North Absaroka · Goat area 3 · 91% publicBeartooth · Goat area 1 · 79% publicTarghee · Goat area 4 · 97% publicPalisades · Goat area 2 · 92% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department mountain goat 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.