Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 98

Chain Lakes

Wyoming Hunt Area 98 covers 699,981 acres and lies 26 miles north-west of Rawlins and 57 miles north-west of Saratoga. 71% of it is public land, mostly BLM (64%) and state land (7%). In 2025, 76 people hunted mule deer here and took 23 — 30% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):30% Public land:71% Size:699,981 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 98 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 98 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 98 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 448,455 ac · 64%
Private 204,127 ac · 29%
State land 46,713 ac · 7%
County or city land 642 ac · 0%
Other public 53 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.