Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 18 Campbell

Wyoming Hunt Area 18 covers 610,368 acres and lies 26 miles north-west of Pine Haven. 23% of it is public land, mostly BLM (8%) and national forest (8%). In 2025, 695 people hunted mule deer here and took 231, a 33% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 18-8, put up 191 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 28 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
382

2 licenses

Applicants
28

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
33%

2025, mule deer

Public Land
23%

8% BLM

Size
954 mi²

610,368 acres

Gillette Pine Haven Upton Buffalo 18
33%hunter success 2025 · 695 hunters, 231 deer

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

Every License in Hunt Area 18

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
18-8 Reduced price · private 100% —
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: 18-7.

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

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 695 231 33%
2024 798 342 43%
2023 655 265 41%
2022 770 288 37%
2021 870 359 41%

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 283 58 21%
2024 286 103 36%
2023 286 44 15%
2022 253 62 25%
2021 385 136 35%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer 695 231 33%
White-tailed deer · 106 licenses 62 25 40%
White-tailed deer 238 33 14%

2025 split: archery 10 (4%), firearm 221 (96%) · residents 102 from 403 hunters, nonresidents 129 from 292 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 472,888 ac 77%
BLM 50,717 ac 8%
National Forest 46,528 ac 8%
State land 39,357 ac 6%
County or city land 893 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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