Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 153

Monument Ridge

Wyoming Hunt Area 153 covers 74,849 acres and lies 25 miles east of Star Valley Ranch. 97% of it is public land, mostly national forest (97%). In 2025, 263 people hunted mule deer here and took 72 — 27% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):27% Public land:97% Size:74,849 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 153 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 153 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 153 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 72,289 ac · 97%
Private 2,556 ac · 3%
County or city land 3 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.