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Units / Wyoming / Antelope area 8

Niobrara · Antelope area 8 · 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 8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

19%

138,157 ac of 715,283 ac

Landlocked public

6,835 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

0%

of public · 119 ac

Walk-in access

9,140 ac

private land opened to hunting

Pronghorn · 2025

88.3% success

188 taken by 213 hunters · 538 days afield

188 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 58% · NR 100% success

Pronghorn hunter success · 2021–2025 · 76% → 88%

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Wyoming antelope draw odds — 2 hunts here →

311 tags drawn on this antelope area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 8 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,550–4,690 ft
Median elevation4,070 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

3,550 ft4,690 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 29%
S 21%
W 25%

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

South Newcastle · Antelope area 6 · 22% publicLance Creek · Antelope area 9 · 15% publicShawneee · Antelope area 29 · 23% publicBill · Antelope area 27 · 57% 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.