Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 53

Devils Canyon

Wyoming Hunt Area 53 covers 147,284 acres and lies 18 miles east of Lovell. 92% of it is public land, mostly BLM (49%) and national forest (35%). In 2025, 252 people hunted mule deer here and took 70 — 28% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):28% Public land:92% Size:147,284 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 53 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 53 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 53 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 71,652 ac · 49%
National Forest 51,788 ac · 35%
Private 11,667 ac · 8%
State land 5,617 ac · 4%
National Park Service 4,962 ac · 3%
Other public 1,516 ac · 1%
Bureau of Reclamation 79 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.