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Wyoming Elk Draw Odds

In the 2026 draw Wyoming offered 152 elk hunts to nonresidents, drawn partly by preference points and partly at random. At 0 points a nonresident had at least an even chance in 35 hunts open to every hunter.

Applications Close
107 days
Feb 1

Main draw: closes Feb 1, 2027 (expected)
Leftover / second draw: closes Jun 26, 2027 (expected)

Cost to Apply
$707

$15 kept if you miss, the rest refunded. Elk license $22 only if drawn

Nonresident Tags
5,165

2026 draw

Applicants per Tag
4.3

22,070 nonresident applicants

Expected dates are projected from this year's calendar; the agency sets next year's exact dates.

Point only: $52 nonresident ($75 from 2027) · Jul 1 – Nov 2 · Open now, closes Nov 2 → Buying Points in Wyoming

How the Wyoming Draw Works (30-Second Version)

Hybrid: preference + random.

Say a hunt has 100 nonresident tags. 75 go to the applicants with the most preference points; if the last point level that draws has more applicants than tags left, that level is split at random. The other 25 are drawn at random from everyone who missed the points pass, so an applicant with no points still has a chance.

Who can apply, fees and deadlines in Wyoming

Best Bets at 0 Points

Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.

Bull or Either-Sex

E-REGION

Elk · Region e general

31%
Success
—
Public
—
Season
—

122-2

Hunt area 122 · Bull · Antlered elk five (5) points or less on either antler

13%
Success
74%
Public
26%
Season
Oct 10–Nov 30

7-2

Hunt area 7 · Either-sex

15%
Success
46%
Public
31%
Season
Nov 21–Dec 31

48-1

Hunt area 48 · Either-sex

14%
Success
40%
Public
59%
Season
Oct 9–31

97-1

Hunt area 97 · Either-sex

16%
Success
28%
Public
86%
Season
Sep 20–Oct 31

125-1

Hunt area 125 · Either-sex

9%
Success
73%
Public
33%
Season
Oct 1–Dec 31

Cow

108-4

Hunt area 108 · Antlerless

100%
Success
82%
Public
55%
Season
Oct 15–Jan 31

25-5

Hunt area 25 · Antlerless

100%
Success
58%
Public
84%
Season
Oct 21–Nov 10

62-4

Hunt area 62 · Antlerless

100%
Success
56%
Public
85%
Season
Oct 1–21

99-4

Hunt area 99 · Antlerless

100%
Success
50%
Public
93%
Season
Oct 1–Nov 20

61-4

Hunt area 61 · Antlerless

100%
Success
56%
Public
69%
Season
Oct 15–Dec 21

120-4

Hunt area 120 · Antlerless

100%
Success
56%
Public
62%
Season
Oct 9–Dec 15

Every Hunt at 0 Points

152 hunt codes drawn in 2026 · 37 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident regular

Last year's odds were off by about 25 percentage points for applicants near the points needed. How we check

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
One Line per Hunt Odds at Every Point Level
1-1 Hunt area 1 · Either-sex <1% 17▲6
1-4 Hunt area 1 · Antlerless 15% 2▲2
6-1 Hunt area 6 · Either-sex 0% (small sample) 13▲6
6-4 Hunt area 6 · Antlerless 100% (small sample) 0
7-1 Hunt area 7 · Either-sex 2% 14▲3
7-2 Hunt area 7 · Either-sex 15% 3▲4
8-1 Hunt area 8 · Either-sex 13% 2
11-1 Hunt area 11 · Either-sex 2% 15▲4
11-2 Hunt area 11 · Either-sex 5% 7▲5
11-4 Hunt area 11 · Antlerless 41% 0
11-9 Hunt area 11 · Either-sex archery · Any elk, archery only 2% 12▲1
16-1 Hunt area 16 · Either-sex <1% 18▲4
16-2 Hunt area 16 · Either-sex <1% 18▲5
16-4 Private land · Hunt area 16 · Antlerless · Antlerless elk valid on private land 60% 0
19-1 Hunt area 19 · Either-sex 2% 12▲1
19-2 Hunt area 19 · Either-sex 6% 11▲2
19-4 Hunt area 19 · Antlerless 100% 0
19-5 Hunt area 19 · Antlerless 100% 0
22-1 Hunt area 22 · Either-sex <1% 19▲4
22-2 Hunt area 22 · Bull · Antlered elk five (5) points or less on either antler 0% (small sample) 10
23-1 Hunt area 23 · Either-sex 2% 13▲3
23-4 Hunt area 23 · Antlerless 100% 0
23-9 Hunt area 23 · Either-sex archery · Any elk, archery only 6% (small sample) 7▼5
24-1 Hunt area 24 · Either-sex 1% 17▲3
24-4 Hunt area 24 · Antlerless 9% 2▲2

Showing 1–25 of 152 · sorted by hunt area · 147 hunts not offered in 2026 hidden — show discontinued hunts

Show all 152 hunts
What These Columns Mean
Odds at your points
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the share of first-choice applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
Pts needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Tags / apps
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
Success
—
the share of hunters in the hunt area who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole hunt area's figure, not the hunt's.
Private land, RFW, ranch, youth
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tags not every hunter can use: private-land-only hunts need landowner access, ranch hunts (Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife, Utah's CWMUs) come with access to one ranch, youth tags have an age limit. They are never best bets and never colour the map.
All 106 Hunt Areas

Each hunt area has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

1 Black Hills 58% success · 89% public 2 Fortification 51% success · 33% public 3 Rawhide 41% success · 12% public 6 Iron Mountain 50% success · 19% public 7 Laramie Peak 46% success · 31% public 8 Boulder Ridge 50% success · 23% public 9 South Snowy Range 17% success · 66% public 10 Rock Creek 24% success · 33% public 11 Medicine Bow River 54% success · 40% public 12 Kennaday Peak 39% success · 58% public 13 Encampment River 28% success · 74% public 15 Spring Creek 32% success · 62% public 16 Shirley Mountain 57% success · 55% public 19 Muddy Mountain 45% success · 46% public 21 Baggs 45% success · 74% public 22 Ferris 44% success · 88% public 23 Rattlesnake 43% success · 51% public 24 Green Mountain 51% success · 91% public 25 South Pass 58% success · 84% public 27 Upper Sweetwater 35% success · 94% public 28 Cony Mountain 32% success · 83% public 30 Aspen Mountain 69% success · 58% public 31 Little Mountain 61% success · 89% public 32 Pine Mountain 57% success · 96% public 33 Middle Fork 30% success · 56% public 34 Upper Powder River 37% success · 41% public 35 Hunter Mesa 27% success · 77% public 36 Rock Creek 18% success · 68% public 37 Goose 18% success · 55% public 38 Tongue 36% success · 79% public 39 Deer Creek 46% success · 92% public 40 Horse Creek 30% success · 83% public 41 Medicine Lodge 41% success · 86% public 45 Paint Rock Creek 35% success · 84% public 47 Copper Mountain 32% success · 63% public 48 Upper Nowood 40% success · 59% public 49 Otter Creek 49% success · 69% public 51 Sunlight-Crandall 43% success · 98% public 53 Trout Peak 48% success 54 Bald Ridge 69% success · 68% public 55 Grinnell 44% success · 100% public 56 Wapiti Ridge 32% success · 94% public 58 Sage Creek 57% success · 34% public 59 Boulder Basin 51% success · 91% public 60 Thorofare 63% success · 100% public 61 North Greybull River 56% success · 69% public 62 South Greybull River 56% success · 84% public 63 Wood River-Gooseberry Creek 52% success · 70% public 64 Owl Creek 42% success · 35% public 65 Heart Mountain 23% success · 67% public 66 Basin 29% success · 78% public 67 Wiggins Fork 43% success · 90% public 68 Warm Springs 31% success · 88% public 69 Whiskey Mountain 49% success · 95% public 70 Buffalo Fork 41% success · 99% public 71 Pacific Creek 40% success · 100% public 72 100% public 73 Targhee-Alta 40% success · 96% public 75 Snake River 77% success · 97% public 77 National Elk Refuge 19% success · 99% public 78 Wilson 46% success · 38% public 79 100% public 80 Sheep Creek 8% success · 99% public 81 Spread Creek 28% success · 99% public 82 Crystal Peak 46% success · 99% public 83 Fish Creek 36% success · 100% public 84 Lower Hoback 37% success · 92% public 85 Fall Creek 35% success · 93% public 86 Monument Ridge 31% success · 97% public 87 Raspberry Ridge 27% success · 91% public 88 Greys Feedground 56% success · 80% public 89 Lower Greys River 28% success · 100% public 90 Upper Greys River 18% success · 100% public 91 Salt River 40% success · 61% public 92 Piney-Horse Creek 39% success · 55% public 93 Waterdog Lakes 41% success · 66% public 94 South Piney 34% success · 76% public 95 Green River 44% success · 100% public 96 New Fork 24% success · 69% public 97 Pinedale 28% success · 86% public 98 Boulder 36% success · 93% public 99 Big Sandy 50% success · 93% public 100 Steamboat 75% success · 73% public 102 West Green River 35% success · 76% public 103 Raymond Mountain 36% success · 77% public 104 Lincoln 36% success · 76% public 105 Carter Lease 25% success · 52% public 106 Uinta 41% success · 25% public 107 Hickey Mountain 23% success · 70% public 108 South Rawlins 82% success · 55% public 110 Upper Platte River 28% success · 73% public 111 Seminoe 44% success · 65% public 113 Rochelle Hills 87% success · 54% public 116 North Black Hills 33% success · 21% public 117 South Black Hills 47% success · 23% public 118 Shamrock Hills 64% success · 71% public 120 Buffalo Creek 56% success · 62% public 122 Pine Ridge 74% success · 26% public 123 Black Thunder 61% success · 32% public 124 Powder Rim 82% success · 70% public 125 Elk Mountain 73% success · 33% public 126 Lost Springs 38% success · 18% public 127 Crowheart Butte 44% success · 8% public 128 Muskrat 28% success · 81% public 129 Non-Herd Unit 46% success · 19% public 130 Bolten Rim 14% success · 48% public
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About These Numbers

Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.