Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) · Hunt Area 51 Big Creek
Wyoming Hunt Area 51 covers 203,368 acres and lies 11 miles south-east of Encampment and 25 miles south-east of Saratoga. 59% of it is public land, mostly national forest (39%) and BLM (15%). In 2025, 107 people hunted pronghorn here and took 89, a 83% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 51-1, put up 15 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 97 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 7 points.
5 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
39% Forest Service
203,368 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 79%
- Season
- Sep 16 – Nov 14
- Tags / Apps
- 15 / 97
- If Drawn
- $362.50
- Success
- 79%
- Season
- Sep 16 – Nov 14
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 20
- If Drawn
- $1,236.50
- Success
- 71%
- Season
- Sep 16 – Nov 14
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 98
- If Drawn
- $70.50
Every License in Hunt Area 51
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51-1 Regular | Any antelope | 4% | 7 ▲2 | |
| 51-1 Special | Any antelope | 17% | 3 ▲2 | |
| 51-1 Landowner | Any antelope | 100% | — | |
| 51-6 Reduced price | Doe or fawn | 10% | — | |
| 51-6 Landowner reduced price | Doe or fawn | 100% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $362.50 ($341 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Pronghorn | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | 89 | 83% |
| 2024 | 114 | 96 | 84% |
| 2023 | 106 | 88 | 83% |
| 2022 | 128 | 122 | 95% |
| 2021 | 181 | 150 | 83% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Pronghorn | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type 1 | 91 | 72 | 79% |
| Type 6 | 24 | 17 | 71% |
2025 split: archery 2 (2%), firearm 87 (98%) · residents 66 from 83 hunters, nonresidents 23 from 24 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 2025 Antelope Harvest Report; WGFD 2024 Antelope Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Antelope Harvest Report.
The Ground
| Private | 83,208 ac | 41% |
| National Forest | 79,677 ac | 39% |
| BLM | 31,293 ac | 15% |
| State land | 9,071 ac | 4% |
| Other public | 5 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 14
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 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 2025 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2024 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2023 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2022 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2021 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Antelope Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 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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