Wyoming Elk · Hunt Area 53 Trout Peak
In 2023, 125 people hunted elk here and took 60, a 48% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 53-1, put up 1 nonresident tag in the 2023 draw for 17 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 11 points.
No more draws here. The last one was 2023.
Wyoming Game and Fish Department held its 2026 elk draw without Hunt Area 53. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Wyoming elk hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
8 licenses
first choice, NR
2023, all licenses
Wyoming Game and Fish Department does not publish a mapped boundary for Hunt Area 53, so there is no map to draw. The agency describes it as “Trout Peak”.
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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2023. Nonresident, first choice, 2023 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Hunt Area 53
The last draw held in Hunt Area 53 was 2023. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53-1 Regular | Any elk | 0% (small sample) | 11 ▼3 | |
| 53-1 Special | Any elk | 0% (small sample) | 9 ▲9 | |
| 53-2 Regular | Any elk | 0% (small sample) | 9 ▲1 | |
| 53-2 Special | Any elk | 0% (small sample) | 7 ▲5 | |
| 53-6 Reduced price | Cow or calf valid in the North Fork Shoshone River Drainage | 100% | — | |
| 53-7 Reduced price · private | Cow or calf valid on private land | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| 53-9 Regular | Any elk, archery only | 0% (small sample) | 12 ▲1 | |
| 53-9 Special | Any elk, archery only | 0% (small sample) | 3 ▼3 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2023 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2023 result: 53-4.
Draw results: WGFD 2023 Demand Report; WGFD 2023 Demand Report; WGFD 2023 Demand Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $728.50 ($707 to apply) · Special $1,986.50 ($1,965 to apply) · Reduced price $324.50 ($303 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Feb 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 125 | 60 | 48% |
| 2022 | 122 | 42 | 34% |
| 2021 | 102 | 33 | 32% |
| 2023 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type Full 1 | 8 | 5 | 63% |
| Type Full 2 | 22 | 7 | 32% |
| Type Reduced 6 | 83 | 36 | 43% |
| Type Reduced 7 | 11 | 7 | 64% |
| Type Full 9 | 10 | 5 | 50% |
2023 split: archery 5 (8%), firearm 55 (92%) · residents 40 from 71 hunters, nonresidents 20 from 54 hunters
What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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. Source: WGFD 2023 Elk Harvest Report; WGFD 2022 Elk Harvest Report; WGFD 2021 Elk Harvest Report.
▸ Sources 8
- WGFD 2023 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2023 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2023 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2023 Elk Harvest Report harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2022 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2021 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2023 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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