Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 148

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Wyoming Hunt Area 148 covers 438,292 acres and lies 42 miles north-east of Jackson and 66 miles north-east of Alpine. 99% of it is public land, mostly national forest (94%) and national park (5%). In 2025, 237 people hunted mule deer here and took 42 — 18% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 16 nonresident tags here for 2 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2026):59 Applicants:5 Mule Deer success (2025):18% Public land:99% Size:438,292 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunt Area 148, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

5 licenses on offer · 59 tags · 5 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 148-3 Any white-tailed deer 10 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Regular
    100% Undersubscribed 75% as 2nd choice
  • 148-3 Any white-tailed deer 5 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Special
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • 148-3 Any white-tailed deer 12 tags · 0 applicants · Landowner
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • 148-8 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer 16 tags · 2 applicants · Reduced price
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • 148-8 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer 16 tags · 0 applicants · Landowner reduced price
    100% No first-choice applicants
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Wyoming lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Regular license $389 $15 $410.50
Special license $1,215 $15 $1,236.50
Reduced price license $49 $15 $70.50
Landowner license $15 $15 $36.50
Landowner reduced price license $15 $15 $36.50

Application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Jackson Alpine Cody Afton Thermopolis
Hunt Area 148 within Wyoming
112 114 115 117 128 149 150 155 156 Jackson Dubois
Hunt Area 148 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

  • National Forest 411,313 ac · 94%
  • National Park Service 23,743 ac · 5%
  • Private 2,406 ac · 1%
  • Other public 829 ac · 0%

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

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.

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 237 42 18% 32.7
2024 309 91 29% 16.7
2023 245 68 28% 19.3
2022 182 45 25% 24.3
2021 177 39 22% 20.9

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 93 11 12% 58.4
2024 113 13 12% 42.8
2023 49 7 14% 24.0
2022 46 12 26% 12.8
2021 51 6 12% 39.5

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 6 · 11%
  • Firearm 47 · 89%

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Resident 34 taken · 287 hunters
  • Nonresident 19 taken · 43 hunters

Boundary: Deer Hunt Areas (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)

Harvest: Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer 2025 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2024 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2023 Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All Wyoming deer hunts