Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 39

Bates Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 39 covers 162,932 acres and lies 28 miles east of Thermopolis. 65% of it is public land, mostly BLM (52%) and state land (13%). In 2025, 142 people hunted mule deer here and took 91 — 64% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):64% Public land:65% Size:162,932 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 39 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 39 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 39 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

BLM 84,884 ac · 52%
Private 56,787 ac · 35%
State land 21,261 ac · 13%

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.