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Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 37

Copper Mountain

Wyoming Hunt Area 37 covers 238,511 acres and lies 10 miles east of Thermopolis and 27 miles north of Shoshoni. 52% of it is public land, mostly BLM (43%) and state land (9%). In 2025, 42 people hunted mule deer here and took 49 — more than one animal per hunter. The 2026 draw put up 18 nonresident tags here for 15 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2026):79 Applicants:80 Mule Deer success (2025):117% Public land:52% Size:238,511 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunt Area 37, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

10 licenses on offer · 79 tags · 80 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
  • 37-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 3 tags · 28 applicants · needed 11 pts · Regular
    4% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 37-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 3 tags · 7 applicants · needed 6 pts · Special
    25% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 37-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 8 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Landowner
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 37-3 Any white-tailed deer 8 tags · 6 applicants · needed 0 pts · Regular
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • 37-3 Any white-tailed deer 3 tags · 0 applicants · Special
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • 37-3 Any white-tailed deer 8 tags · 0 applicants · Landowner
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • 37-7 Doe or fawn valid on or within one-half (1/2) mile of irrigated land within the Buffalo Creek drainage 5 tags · 22 applicants · Reduced price
    23% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 37-7 Doe or fawn valid on or within one-half (1/2) mile of irrigated land within the Buffalo Creek drainage 5 tags · 0 applicants · Landowner reduced price
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • 37-8 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer 18 tags · 15 applicants · Reduced price
    100% Undersubscribed 43% as 2nd choice
  • 37-8 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer 18 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

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.

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 37

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

Type 6 — Doe or fawn valid on or within one-half (1/2) mile of irrigated land within the Buffalo Creek drainage Reduced price

The country

Thermopolis Worland Shoshoni Basin Hudson
Hunt Area 37 within Wyoming
164 127 120 40 39 36 35 Thermopolis Worland
Hunt Area 37 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 114,682 ac · 48%
  • BLM 102,572 ac · 43%
  • State land 20,543 ac · 9%
  • Other public 498 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 132 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 83 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.

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 42 49 117% 3.6
2024 55 40 73% 4.2
2023 43 38 88% 5.5
2022 64 28 44% 9.4
2021 71 40 56% 7.2

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 91 40 44% 21.3
2024 123 76 62% 9.2
2023 96 60 63% 12.8
2022 80 53 66% 5.2
2021 75 69 92% 5.1

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 0 · 0%
  • Firearm 89 · 100%

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Resident 60 taken · 93 hunters
  • Nonresident 29 taken · 40 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