Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 1 Crook

Wyoming Hunt Area 1 covers 456,447 acres and lies 31 miles north of Pine Haven. 21% of it is public land, mostly BLM (14%) and state land (6%). In 2025, 1,089 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 515, a 47% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 1-8, put up 162 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 281 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
331

2 licenses

Applicants
288

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
47%

2025, white-tailed deer

Public Land
21%

14% BLM

Size
713 mi²

456,447 acres

Pine Haven Sundance Moorcroft Gillette 1
47%hunter success 2025 · 1,089 hunters, 515 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Hunt Area 1

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
1-8 Reduced price · private 58% —
Landowner reduced price · private 100% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 1-7.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 1,089 515 47%
2024 1,247 588 47%
2023 928 403 43%
2022 1,403 620 44%
2021 2,335 1,163 50%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 774 323 42%
2024 850 344 41%
2023 728 273 38%
2022 1,471 598 41%
2021 1,702 664 39%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer 774 323 42%
White-tailed deer · 353 licenses 224 168 75%
White-tailed deer 934 347 37%

2025 split: archery 41 (8%), firearm 474 (92%) · residents 235 from 650 hunters, nonresidents 280 from 439 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest…; WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private 360,432 ac 79%
BLM 65,083 ac 14%
State land 28,897 ac 6%
National Park Service 1,334 ac <1%
Other public 44 ac <1%
National Forest 37 ac <1%
County or city land 0 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 10
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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