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Units / Wyoming / Antelope area 79

Big Horn · Antelope area 79 · Wyoming

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

Antelope area 79Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

79%

632,106 ac of 800,098 ac

Landlocked public

963 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

4%

of public · 26,282 ac

Walk-in access

12,888 ac

private land opened to hunting

Pronghorn · 2025

81.5% success

119 taken by 146 hunters · 756 days afield

76 bucks · 43 does · 0 fawns

Res 77% · NR 97% success

Pronghorn hunter success · 2021–2025 · 87% → 82%

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Wyoming antelope draw odds — 6 hunts here

89 tags drawn on this antelope area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 79

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,630–9,590 ft
Median elevation4,730 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft9,590 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 17%
E 15%
S 27%
W 42%

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 antelope antelope areas

Fifteen Mile Creek · Antelope area 77 · 81% publicMcCullough Peaks · Antelope area 78 · 76% publicNowater · Antelope area 114 · 86% publicBeckton · Antelope area 109 · 12% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department antelope 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.