Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 46

Cloud Peak

Wyoming Hunt Area 46 covers 229,055 acres and lies 29 miles west of Buffalo. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (99%). In 2025, 329 people hunted mule deer here and took 97 — 30% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):30% Public land:100% Size:229,055 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 46 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 46 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 46 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 227,195 ac · 99%
Private 841 ac · 0%
Other public 566 ac · 0%
BLM 502 ac · 0%
State land 15 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.