Unit 024 (Green Mountain)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Elk
Elk Hunt Area 24, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Green Mountain, covers about 679 square miles in Fremont, Sweetwater and Carbon counties. It belongs to WGFD's Green Mountain elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 51.4%, with 420 hunters taking 216 elk at about 14.9 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 89% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 024
Elk Hunt Area 24, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Green Mountain, covers about 679 square miles in Fremont, Sweetwater and Carbon counties. It belongs to WGFD's Green Mountain elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 51.4%, with 420 hunters taking 216 elk at about 14.9 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 89% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Elk Hunt Area 24
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names elk hunt area 24 "Green Mountain". It runs to about 679 square miles, in Fremont (79%), Sweetwater (15%) and Carbon (7%) counties. WGFD reports these elk as the Green Mountain herd unit, which also takes in elk hunt area 128. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the elk live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.
Where elk hunt area 24 begins and ends
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7 walks the line around elk hunt area 24 corner by corner. It starts at the junction of U.S. Highway 287 and Wyoming Highway 220. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 287, Wyoming Highway 220, Wyoming Highway 73 and Sweetwater County Road 22, and Bison Basin. Read it as the legal edge of your license rather than as a hint about animals. The full text is in Section 9 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.
Not the same ground as the other hunt area 24s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 24 also belongs to its deer, antelope, moose and bighorn sheep hunt areas 24. None of them shares a county with this one. A license is good only in the hunt area of its own species, so this page is about the elk area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.
High ground inside the line: Green Mountain, Whiskey Peak and Whiskey Ridge
Named high points inside elk hunt area 24 include Green Mountain at 9,217 feet, Whiskey Peak at 9,212 feet, Whiskey Ridge at 9,025 feet, Crooks Mountain at 8,308 feet and Stratton Rim at 8,017 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.
Holding ground: Stratton Hollow, Reed Meadow and Taggart Meadows
Below them sit Stratton Hollow at 7,595 feet, Reed Meadow at 7,491 feet, Taggart Meadows at 7,268 feet, Rocky Canyon at 7,077 feet and Stinking Springs Draw at 6,873 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.
Water: Brenton Springs, Happy Spring and Sand Spring
Named water inside the line includes Brenton Springs, Happy Spring, Sand Spring, Tierney Spring and Hadsell Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Reading the land status
Federal land — BLM, Forest Service and Park Service — covers about 89% of elk hunt area 24 in our read of the federal land-status layer; state trust land isn't counted in that figure. Our ownership read for this hunt area is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The hunt area runs from 6,316 feet to 8,553 feet, averaging 7,066 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit 024 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU 24
The lay of it
- 6,316–8,553 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,066 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 678.4 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 7 tanks
- 1 springs
- 35 stream segments
- 2 lakes
Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Green Mountain (9,217 ft), Crooks Mountain (8,308 ft), Stratton Rim (8,017 ft), Owl Hills (7,916 ft)
Holding ground: Sagebrush Park (9,074 ft), East Cottonwood Park (9,027 ft), Sheep Creek Park (8,462 ft), Brenton Springs, Happy Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Elk in Elk Hunt Area 24
Elk Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 51.4% elk success in elk hunt area 24: 216 animals taken by 420 active hunters over 3,216 days of hunting, or 14.9 days per animal. By residency, residents 51% (177 taken by 347) and nonresidents 53.4% (39 taken by 73).
These are WGFD's own estimates from its hunter survey, for this hunt area and season only — not a statewide average. One season isn't a trend, so check the current report before you read one into it.
Elk Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (resident) | 156 | 1,157 | 13.5% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 169 | 1.2% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 4 antlerless (resident) | 63 | 91 | 69.2% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 4 antlerless (nonresident) | 2 | 22 | 9.1% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 5 antlerless (resident) | 147 | 137 | 100.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 5 antlerless (nonresident) | 6 | 9 | 66.7% | — |
Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.
Open in Draw Odds EngineWyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for elk in elk hunt area 24, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any elk), residents: 1,157 first-choice applicants for 156 licenses, 13.5% drawn
- Type 1 (any elk), nonresidents: 169 first-choice applicants for 2 licenses, 1.2% drawn
- Type 5 (antlerless elk), residents: 137 first-choice applicants for 147 licenses, 100% drawn
- Type 4 (antlerless elk), residents: 91 first-choice applicants for 63 licenses, 69.2% drawn
- Type 4 (antlerless elk), nonresidents: 22 first-choice applicants for 2 licenses, 9.1% drawn
Wyoming residents draw elk licenses without preference points; nonresidents draw part of their quota on points, highest balance first (Chapter 44, Section 19), and the nonresident figures above are from WGFD's random draw. WGFD publishes no preference-point level at which a hunt draws, so none is given here. There are 1 more type-and-residency rows for this area in 2026. Every figure was checked against WGFD's demand-report PDFs on 2026-08-10.
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-25.
- Chapter 7 — Elk Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of elk hunt area 24, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · accessed 2026-10-25
- Elk 2025 Harvest Report — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunters, harvest, percent success and days per animal for elk in elk hunt area 24, The same by license type and residency · accessed 2026-10-25
- WGFD draw results and odds — demand reports 2021-2026 — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: First-choice applicants, licenses and percent drawn, by license type, residency and year · accessed 2026-08-10
- Chapter 44 — Regulation for Issuance of Licenses, Permits, Stamps, Tags, Preference Points and Competitive Raffle Chances — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Which licenses are drawn on preference points (Section 19), When preference points are deleted · accessed 2026-10-25
- WGFD ArcGIS feature services — hunt areas by species, CWD sampling areas, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas, Walk-In Hunting Areas — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Mapped outline of the hunt area, Herd unit and square miles · accessed 2026-10-25
- TIGERweb State_County — Wyoming county boundaries (used only to measure which counties a hunt area lies in) — U.S. Census Bureau · supports: Which counties the hunt area lies in, and in what share · accessed 2026-10-25