Wyoming hunting units

Unit 1

Black Hills (Area 1)

Ponderosa-pine island on the prairie — Wyoming's best whitetail country wrapped around the Bear Lodge Mountains.

Unit 117

South Black Hills (Area 117)

Ponderosa foothills and river-bottom whitetails on the South Dakota line — mostly private, but the timber holds mature bucks.

Unit 2

Fortification (Area 2)

Introduced Yellowstone elk hiding in the juniper breaks of Campbell County high desert

Unit 129

Non-Herd Unit (Area 129)

The Gillette antelope country — some of the highest pronghorn densities in the nation, if you can get on the ground to hunt them.

Unit 3

Rawhide (Area 3)

Rolling Goshen Hole grassland and Rawhide Creek bottoms holding pronghorn, mule deer and heavy river-bottom whitetails

Unit 6

Iron Mountain (Area 6)

Big-sky pronghorn plains rolling up into the granite foothills of the Iron Mountain elk country between Cheyenne and Laramie.

Unit 7

Laramie Peak (Area 7)

The pine-and-granite island of Laramie Peak — a big-herd elk unit tangled in checkerboard access.

Unit 8

Boulder Ridge (Area 8)

Private-heavy foothill country southwest of Laramie between the Laramie and Snowy Ranges

Unit 9

South Snowy Range (Area 9)

South Snowy Range — general-license Region B deer in the high lake country of the Medicine Bow, from alpine peaks to the Laramie River foothills.

Unit 10

Rock Creek (Area 10)

From the Laramie plains up the east face of the Snowy Range — big-country mule deer over a checkerboard base.

Unit 12

Kennaday Peak (Area 12)

High desert plains climbing into the timbered Medicine Bow Range — scattered elk and mule deer with a good spread of public forest.

Unit 11

Medicine Bow River (Area 11)

Legendary Shirley Basin pronghorn country along the Medicine Bow River, deer in the bottoms and a few mountain elk to the south

Unit 16

Shirley Mountain (Area 16)

Mature bulls in the Shirley and Seminoe mountains rising out of legendary antelope basin

Unit 13

Encampment River (Area 13)

Encampment River timber and wilderness on the Continental Divide

Unit 15

Spring Creek (Area 15)

Big, broken Spring Creek country from the North Platte to the Sierra Madre crest

Unit 19

Muddy Mountain (Area 19)

Casper Mountain, Muddy Mountain and the Bates Hole breaks just south of town

Unit 21

Baggs (Area 21)

Big-country general elk on the Sierra Madre backbone above famous Baggs mule deer range.

Unit 22

Ferris (Area 22)

A small, rugged island range of elk, deer and sheep rising abruptly from the high desert.

Unit 23

Rattlesnake (Area 23)

Expansive BLM high desert and the rough, lightly timbered Rattlesnake Hills west of Casper.

Unit 24

Green Mountain (Area 24)

A timbered desert island range holding a small, healthy elk herd on almost all-public ground.

Unit 25

South Pass (Area 25)

Historic Continental Divide desert-to-foothill country with a small, weather-driven elk herd on mostly public ground.

Unit 27

Upper Sweetwater (Area 27)

A compact, nearly all-public sliver climbing from the Sweetwater desert into the alpine backbone of the Wind Rivers.

Unit 28

Cony Mountain (Area 28)

Wilderness elk and moose on the steep eastern face of the southern Wind Rivers above Lander

Unit 30

Aspen Mountain (Area 30)

High-desert aspen and juniper plateau south of Rock Springs stitched into the Union Pacific checkerboard

Unit 31

Little Mountain (Area 31)

A high desert plateau of native cutthroat, big mule deer and limited-quota elk south of Rock Springs.

Unit 32

Pine Mountain (Area 32)

A high-success, mostly-public elk unit of broken glassing country above Flaming Gorge.

Unit 33

Middle Fork (Area 33)

Hole-in-the-Wall canyon country where Bighorn elk drop to winter range along the Middle Fork.

Unit 34

Upper Powder River (Area 34)

Big-country elk and outlaw canyons where the southeast Bighorns spill into the Powder River ranchlands.

Unit 35

Hunter Mesa (Area 35)

A high, well-accessed slice of the southeast Bighorns off the Highway 16 corridor with limited-entry bulls and good public timber.

Unit 36

Rock Creek (Area 36)

Heavily timbered, roadless elk country on the east face of the Bighorns above Buffalo.

Unit 37

Goose (Area 37)

The Goose Creek east slope above Sheridan — forest elk up high, whitetails in the storied Story bottoms.

Unit 38

Tongue (Area 38)

The Tongue River high country — nearly all national forest, long timbered ridges and a coveted, hard-to-draw Bighorn elk tag.

Unit 39

Deer Creek (Area 39)

Roadless canyon country on the Bighorns' west face — dig up lone bulls where the mountain drops into the Big Horn Basin.

Unit 40

Horse Creek (Area 40)

Shell Canyon to Bald Mountain — climb from ranch bottoms to alpine tundra in a single drainage.

Unit 41

Medicine Lodge (Area 41)

Medicine Lodge country — high-plains ranch, red-rock canyons, and rutting bulls in the Paintrock herd.

Unit 45

Paint Rock Creek (Area 45)

Paint Rock Creek — Worland basin sage to the roof of the Bighorns beneath Cloud Peak.

Unit 47

Copper Mountain (Area 47)

Copper Mountain and the Bridger badlands where the Bighorn Basin drops to Boysen Reservoir — desert pronghorn and rimrock mule deer.

Unit 48

Upper Nowood (Area 48)

The Upper Nowood — sage basins and creek breaks climbing the southwest slope of the Bighorn Mountains toward the forest.

Unit 49

Otter Creek (Area 49)

Otter Creek and Paint Rock — the west face of the Bighorns above Hyattville, where big elk herds and mountain mule deer meet Cloud Peak Wilderness.

Unit 65

Heart Mountain (Area 65)

Heart Mountain and the irrigated Cody-Powell flats — a basin edge unit of pronghorn, foothill elk, and river-bottom whitetails under an iconic peak.

Unit 66

Basin (Area 66)

The heart of the basin around Basin, Greybull, and Worland — big BLM badlands and sage with world-class pronghorn and river-bottom whitetails.

Unit 51

Sunlight-Crandall (Area 51)

Sunlight Basin and the Clarks Fork country — high, wild Absaroka backcountry off the Chief Joseph and Beartooth highways.

Unit 54

Bald Ridge (Area 54)

Bald Ridge — deep, roadless-feeling Absaroka canyon country that grows some of Wyoming's biggest bulls, with no wilderness lockout.

Unit 55

Grinnell (Area 55)

Grinnell — the wild North Fork of the Shoshone, wall-to-wall wilderness on the doorstep of Yellowstone.

Unit 56

Wapiti Ridge (Area 56)

Wapiti Ridge — North Fork Shoshone elk country in the rugged Absarokas west of Cody

Unit 58

Sage Creek (Area 58)

Sage Creek — transition country from Cody's sage flats up into the Shoshone timber

Unit 59

Boulder Basin (Area 59)

Boulder Basin — deep South Fork Shoshone wilderness elk in the heart of grizzly country

Unit 61

North Greybull River (Area 61)

Trophy Absaroka bulls in the wild North Greybull drainage west of Meeteetse — one of Wyoming's top big-bull units.

Unit 60

Thorofare (Area 60)

The Thorofare — the most remote country in the Lower 48, a horseback wilderness elk hunt on Yellowstone's back doorstep.

Unit 62

South Greybull River (Area 62)

South Greybull River headwaters — deep Shoshone wilderness country and one of Wyoming's premier trophy-bull elk hunts.

Unit 63

Wood River-Gooseberry Creek (Area 63)

Wood River and Gooseberry Creek — trophy-bull elk country where the Absaroka wilderness meets the big Meeteetse ranches.

Unit 64

Owl Creek (Area 64)

Owl Creek country — the lower, drier end of the Gooseberry elk herd where the Bighorn Basin meets the Wind River Reservation.

Unit 67

Wigins Fork (Area 67)

The Wiggins Fork wilderness north of Dubois — a deep Shoshone-forest, Washakie Wilderness trophy-elk and bighorn stronghold in grizzly country.

Unit 68

Warm Springs (Area 68)

The roaded east slope above Dubois — big timbered elk country without the wilderness lockout.

Unit 69

Whiskey Mountain (Area 69)

Whiskey Mountain — legendary bighorn winter range and steep wilderness elk country above Dubois.

Unit 70

Buffalo Fork (Area 70)

Roadless Teton Wilderness elk country north of Buffalo Valley — the Jackson herd's old-bull backcountry

Unit 71

Pacific Creek (Area 71)

Steep, roadless Pacific Creek country walled between Grand Teton and Yellowstone — 100% public wilderness elk

Unit 72

Berry Creek (Area 72)

Small, roadless Berry Creek corner in the far northwest Tetons — remote elk on the wildest edge of the range

Unit 73

Targhee-Alta (Area 73)

Rugged west slope of the Tetons — a small, backcountry elk herd on 96% national forest, hunted mostly from the Idaho side.

Unit 75

Snake River (Area 75)

Snake River sagebrush flats inside southern Grand Teton — an antlerless migration hunt built to steer the growing Jackson elk herd.

Unit 77

National Elk Refuge (Area 77)

The famous winter feedground north of Jackson — a permit-and-vehicle-pass antlerless elk hunt on the National Elk Refuge itself.

Unit 78

Wilson (Area 78)

The timbered west wall of Jackson Hole between Teton Pass and Grand Teton Park

Unit 79

Teton Park (Area 79)

The Jackson Hole sage flats inside Grand Teton Park's elk reduction program

Unit 80

Sheep Creek (Area 80)

The Gros Ventre front above the National Elk Refuge — winter-range elk, alpine bighorns, and a short walk from town.

Unit 82

Crystal Peak (Area 82)

The wild heart of the Gros Ventre — Crystal Creek's alpine peaks, backcountry elk, and a true wilderness bighorn hunt.

Unit 81

Spread Creek (Area 81)

Buffalo Valley and the Mount Leidy Highlands — rolling timbered migration country between Grand Teton Park and Togwotee Pass.

Unit 83

Fish Creek (Area 83)

Remote, grizzly-country elk in the wild upper Gros Ventre drainage east of Jackson.

Unit 84

Lower Hoback (Area 84)

Rugged elk country in the lower Hoback drainage between the Gros Ventre and Wyoming ranges.

Unit 85

Fall Creek (Area 85)

Drainage-rich Snake River Range elk country west of Jackson to the Idaho line.

Unit 86

Monument Ridge (Area 86)

Nearly all-public Bridger-Teton elk country above the Hoback — Monument Ridge feedground herds and deep canyon mule deer.

Unit 87

Raspberry Ridge (Area 87)

Public forest elk unit west of Bondurant on Hoback Rim, backing to the Gros Ventre Wilderness — CWD country.

Unit 92

Piney-Horse Creek (Area 92)

The west slope of the Wyoming Range — Wyoming Peak, Piney and Horse creeks, big-buck migration country from sage benches to alpine.

Unit 93

Waterdog Lakes (Area 93)

The Hoback Rim above Bondurant — north end of the world's longest mule deer migration, high wild forest country.

Unit 94

South Piney (Area 94)

Rugged Wyoming Range elk country above Big Piney and La Barge — mostly public, feedground-managed, in the great Sublette mule deer migration corridor.

Unit 88

Greys Feedground (Area 88)

Small feedground unit at the mouth of the Greys River near Alpine — elk wintered one mile from the highway.

Unit 89

Lower Greys River (Area 89)

Lower Greys River — the storied Region G mule deer country where the Wyoming and Salt River ranges pinch down toward Alpine.

Unit 90

Upper Greys River (Area 90)

Upper Greys River — the high, roadless headwaters of Wyoming Range Region G mule deer country.

Unit 91

Salt River (Area 91)

Star Valley's high backbone — the Salt River Range, storied B&C mule deer country almost entirely on national forest.

Unit 95

Green River (Area 95)

Upper Green valley floor climbing into the Bridger Wilderness — big branch-antlered bulls, iconic Square Top country, and a nonresident wilderness-guide catch.

Unit 96

New Fork (Area 96)

New Fork drainage out of Pinedale into the Bridger Wilderness — valley floor to alpine divide, good branch-antlered bulls, and the nonresident wilderness-guide rule.

Unit 97

Pinedale (Area 97)

Pinedale's home mountains — steep Bridger-Teton timber climbing off Fremont Lake into the Wind River high country.

Unit 98

Boulder (Area 98)

Boulder country — sage flats and the Path of the Pronghorn running east into the Wind River crest.

Unit 99

Big Sandy (Area 99)

Big Sandy — high-desert sage sweeping east to the granite spires of the southern Wind Rivers.

Unit 100

Steamboat (Area 100)

Vast Red Desert antelope country — Steamboat Mountain, sand dunes and the Great Divide Basin, mostly public.

Unit 108

South Rawlins (Area 108)

Sagebrush basin pronghorn and sleeper mule deer on the checkerboard south of Rawlins

Unit 118

Shamrock Hills (Area 118)

Big, open BLM sage basin north of Rawlins — trophy-genetic pronghorn, a pocket desert-elk herd, and true room to roam.

Unit 124

Powder Rim (Area 124)

High-desert badlands where world-class pronghorn range a BLM sea broken by the checkerboard

Unit 102

West Green River (Area 102)

Big-basin sagebrush country climbing to the timbered spine of Commissary Ridge

Unit 103

Raymond Mountain (Area 103)

A compact, rugged roadless-core elk unit above the Bear River near Cokeville

Unit 104

Lincoln (Area 104)

Overthrust-belt ridges and river valleys between Kemmerer, Cokeville and the Bear River divide

Unit 105

Carter Lease (Area 105)

Cold desert and the Bear River Divide in Wyoming's far southwest corner

Unit 106

Unita (Area 106)

Bridger Valley ranchland climbing into the Uinta Mountains high country

Unit 107

Hickey Mountain (Area 107)

Public-land desert breaks between the Green River and Flaming Gorge

Unit 110

Upper Platte River (Area 110)

Upper North Platte valley elk and mule deer between the Sierra Madre and Snowy Range, pronghorn on the valley floor

Unit 111

Seminoe (Area 111)

High-desert sage basins between the North Platte, Seminoe Reservoir, and the Ferris Mountains — big pronghorn country with real checkerboard access puzzles.

Unit 113

Rochelle Hills (Area 113)

Rolling high-plains prairie and coal-country breaks around the Rochelle Hills — big pronghorn numbers, scattered mule deer, and a rebounding prairie elk herd.

Unit 116

North Black Hills (Area 116)

Wyoming's pine-timbered northeast corner around the Bear Lodge Mountains and Devils Tower — the state's whitetail stronghold, where private access defines success.

Unit 120

Buffalo Creek (Area 120)

Red-wall breaks and sage flats where the basin climbs into the Bighorns southwest of Kaycee

Unit 122

Pine Ridge (Area 122)

Sagebrush plains, oil-and-gas country and the Powder River bottoms of the central basin

Unit 123

Black Thunder (Area 123)

Rolling sage-and-grass plains and creek bottoms southeast of Gillette in the heart of coal country

Unit 125

Elk Mountain (Area 125)

A compact ranch-and-mountain unit built around the 11,000-foot island of Elk Mountain

Unit 126

Lost Springs (Area 126)

A huge, private-dominated eastern-plains unit of grassland, sage breaks and cottonwood river bottoms

Unit 127

Crowheart Butte (Area 127)

Crowheart Butte country — upper Wind River valley in the shadow of the Absarokas and Winds, where public access is the hard part.

Unit 128

Muskrat (Area 128)

Muskrat and Beaver Rim — big-basin sagebrush high desert that hunters know for one thing: lots of pronghorn on lots of public land.

Unit 130

Bolten Rim (Area 130)

Bolten Rim high-desert sage west of Rawlins, checkerboard pronghorn country