Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 76

Sheep Mountain

Wyoming Hunt Area 76 covers 261,881 acres and lies 23 miles west of Laramie and 40 miles east of Encampment. 66% of it is public land, mostly national forest (50%) and state land (10%). In 2025, 1,037 people hunted mule deer here and took 247 — 24% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):24% Public land:66% Size:261,881 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 76 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 76 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 76 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 130,909 ac · 50%
Private 89,627 ac · 34%
State land 24,985 ac · 10%
BLM 9,885 ac · 4%
Other public 2,921 ac · 1%
National Wildlife Refuge 1,981 ac · 1%
County or city land 1,506 ac · 1%

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.