Wyoming Elk — Hunt Area 70

Buffalo Fork

Wyoming Hunt Area 70 covers 286,869 acres and lies 37 miles north-west of Dubois and 68 miles north-east of Alpine. 99% of it is public land, mostly national forest (99%). In 2025, 528 people hunted elk here and took 218 — 41% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):41% Public land:99% Size:286,869 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered an elk license in Hunt Area 70 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Wyoming elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunt Area 70 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 70 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 283,677 ac · 99%
Private 2,406 ac · 1%
Other public 636 ac · 0%
National Park Service 148 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.