Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) — Hunt Area 115

Upper Nowood

Wyoming Hunt Area 115 covers 648,855 acres and lies 35 miles south-east of Worland and 45 miles east of Thermopolis. 54% of it is public land, mostly BLM (38%) and state land (10%). In 2025, 171 people hunted pronghorn here and took 155 — 91% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 23 nonresident tags here for 5 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2026):62 Applicants:314 Hunter success (2025):91% Public land:54% Size:648,855 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Hunt Area 115, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

5 licenses on offer · 62 tags · 314 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 115-1 Any antelope 12 tags · 194 applicants · needed 8 pts · Regular
    2% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 115-1 Any antelope 8 tags · 13 applicants · needed 1 pts · Special
    40% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • 115-1 Any antelope 23 tags · 5 applicants · needed 0 pts · Landowner
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 115-7 Doe or fawn valid east of the Nowood River or south of the Nowater Stock Trail (B.L.M. Road 1404) 9 tags · 101 applicants · Reduced price
    9% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 115-7 Doe or fawn valid east of the Nowood River or south of the Nowater Stock Trail (B.L.M. Road 1404) 10 tags · 1 applicants · Landowner reduced price
    100% Undersubscribed
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Wyoming lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Regular license $341 $15 $362.50
Special license $1,215 $15 $1,236.50
Reduced price license $49 $15 $70.50
Landowner license $15 $15 $36.50
Landowner reduced price license $15 $15 $36.50

Application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 115

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Worland Thermopolis Buffalo Shoshoni Sheridan
Hunt Area 115 within Wyoming
10 102 113 114 117 16 20 21 22 23 25 73 75 76 77 79 83 97 Worland Thermopolis Buffalo Basin Shoshoni
Hunt Area 115 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

  • Private 302,606 ac · 47%
  • BLM 248,704 ac · 38%
  • State land 65,246 ac · 10%
  • National Forest 38,005 ac · 6%
  • Other public 274 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 84 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 171 155 91% 3.8
2024 161 145 90% 4.6
2023 164 141 86% 4.3
2022 229 189 83% 5.5
2021 257 202 79% 4.6

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 4 · 3%
  • Firearm 151 · 97%

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Resident 115 taken · 131 hunters
  • Nonresident 40 taken · 40 hunters

Boundary: Antelope Hunt Areas (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)

Harvest: Antelope 2025 Harvest Report

Harvest: Antelope 2024 Harvest Report

Harvest: Antelope 2023 Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All Wyoming pronghorn hunts