Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 142

Piney-Horse Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 142 covers 381,616 acres and lies 21 miles west of Pinedale and 35 miles east of Afton. 53% of it is public land, mostly national forest (28%) and BLM (20%). In 2025, 566 people hunted mule deer here and took 131 — 23% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):23% Public land:53% Size:381,616 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 142 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Wyoming deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunt Area 142 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 142 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

Private 180,273 ac · 47%
National Forest 108,083 ac · 28%
BLM 77,829 ac · 20%
State land 14,478 ac · 4%
Other public 814 ac · 0%
County or city land 137 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.