Unit 060 (Thorofare)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Elk
Elk Hunt Area 60, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Thorofare, covers about 331 square miles in Park and Teton counties. It belongs to WGFD's Cody elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 63.4%, with 243 hunters taking 154 elk at about 7.8 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 100% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 060
Elk Hunt Area 60, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Thorofare, covers about 331 square miles in Park and Teton counties. It belongs to WGFD's Cody elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 63.4%, with 243 hunters taking 154 elk at about 7.8 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 100% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Elk Hunt Area 60
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names elk hunt area 60 "Thorofare". It runs to about 331 square miles, in Park (83%) and Teton (17%) counties. WGFD reports these elk as the Cody herd unit, which also takes in elk hunt areas 55, 56, 58, 59, 61 and 66. 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.
The line: Yellowstone River and Yellowstone Lake
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7 defines elk hunt area 60 as all of the drainage of the Yellowstone River upstream from Yellowstone Lake outside of Yellowstone National Park. That is a legal description, not a habitat map, and it is the text a warden reads you against. 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 60s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 60 also belongs to its deer and antelope hunt areas 60. 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.
Wilderness inside the line: Teton Wilderness
About 100% of elk hunt area 60 lies in the Teton Wilderness. WGFD's 2026 regulations print the rule that matters there: no nonresident may hunt big game in a designated wilderness area unless accompanied by a licensed professional guide or a resident guide, with at least one guide for every two nonresident hunters. Inside the wilderness there are no roads, so every animal there comes out on your back or on a horse.
High ground inside the line: Younts Peak, Thorofare Mountain and Petrified Ridge
Named high points inside elk hunt area 60 include Younts Peak at 12,100 feet, Thorofare Mountain at 12,015 feet, Petrified Ridge at 11,827 feet, Ishawooa Cone at 11,827 feet and Overlook Mountain at 11,783 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: Two Ocean Pass, Rampart Pass and Deer Creek Pass
Below them sit Two Ocean Pass at 8,136 feet, Rampart Pass at 10,728 feet, Deer Creek Pass at 10,394 feet, Ishawooa Pass at 9,909 feet and Phelps Pass at 8,940 feet. Those are the basins and bottoms of the area, and they are what you glass into from above.
Reading the land status
Federal land — BLM, Forest Service and Park Service — covers about 100% of elk hunt area 60 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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The hunt area runs from 8,013 feet to 11,009 feet, averaging 9,518 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit 060 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU 60
The lay of it
- 8,013–11,009 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,518 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 330.6 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 32%
Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 34 tanks
- 462 stream segments
- 4 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: Younts Peak (12,100 ft), Petrified Ridge (11,827 ft), Overlook Mountain (11,783 ft), Thunder Mountain (11,601 ft)
Holding ground: Rampart Pass (10,728 ft), Deer Creek Pass (10,394 ft), Ishawooa Pass (9,909 ft)
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 60
Elk Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 63.4% elk success in elk hunt area 60: 154 animals taken by 243 active hunters over 1,202 days of hunting, or 7.8 days per animal. By residency, residents 61.3% (46 taken by 75) and nonresidents 64.3% (108 taken by 168).
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery — Type 9 either sex (resident) | 17 | 3 | 100.0% | — |
| Archery — Type 9 either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 22 | 0.0% | — |
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 60, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 9, nonresidents: 22 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% drawn
- Type 9, residents: 3 first-choice applicants for 17 licenses, 100% 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. Every figure was checked against WGFD's demand-report PDFs on 2026-08-10.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 60, 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 60, 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
- 2026 Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunting Regulations — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Nonresident guide requirement in designated wilderness · 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