Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 22 Douglas

Wyoming Hunt Area 22 spans 1,626,004 acres, centered 21 miles north of Rolling Hills. 20% of it is public land, mostly BLM (10%) and state land (8%). In 2025, 322 people hunted mule deer here and took 204, a 63% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 22-1, put up 46 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 174 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 6 points.

NR Tags, 2026
230

8 licenses

Applicants
269

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
63%

2025, mule deer

Public Land
20%

10% BLM

Size
2,541 mi²

1,626,004 acres

Rolling Hills Wright Lusk Upton 22
63%hunter success 2025 · 322 hunters, 204 deer

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

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Hunt Area 22

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
22-1 Regular 8% 6 ▲4
Special 50% 1 ▼1
Landowner 100% 0
22-3 Regular 89% 0
Special 100% 0
Landowner 100% —
22-8 Reduced price 54% —
Landowner reduced price 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: 22-2.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $410.50 ($389 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 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 322 204 63%
2024 273 180 66%
2023 353 235 67%
2022 343 225 66%
2021 398 256 64%

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 167 86 52%
2024 166 82 49%
2023 206 80 39%
2022 175 97 55%
2021 252 112 44%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer · 150 licenses 128 85 66%
Mule deer · 247 licenses 193 119 62%
White-tailed deer · 150 licenses 17 0 0%
White-tailed deer · 247 licenses 43 10 23%
White-tailed deer · 76 licenses 69 45 65%
White-tailed deer · 101 licenses 62 31 50%

2025 split: archery 25 (12%), firearm 179 (88%) · residents 84 from 150 hunters, nonresidents 120 from 172 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 1,308,086 ac 80%
BLM 163,097 ac 10%
State land 123,343 ac 8%
National Forest 24,857 ac 2%
County or city land 4,635 ac <1%
Other public 2,824 ac <1%

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

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. 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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