Unit 088 (Greys Feedground)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Elk
Elk Hunt Area 88, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Greys Feedground, covers about 18 square miles in Lincoln County. It belongs to WGFD's Afton elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 56.1%, with 57 hunters taking 32 elk at about 13.2 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 53% of it. Elk hunters here also need WGFD's Elk Special Management Permit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 088
Elk Hunt Area 88, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Greys Feedground, covers about 18 square miles in Lincoln County. It belongs to WGFD's Afton elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 56.1%, with 57 hunters taking 32 elk at about 13.2 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 53% of it. Elk hunters here also need WGFD's Elk Special Management Permit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Elk Hunt Area 88
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names elk hunt area 88 "Greys Feedground". It runs to about 18 square miles, entirely in Lincoln County. WGFD reports these elk as the Afton herd unit, which also takes in elk hunt areas 89, 90 and 91. 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: Snake River, Greys River and Squaw Creek
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7 walks the line around elk hunt area 88 corner by corner. It starts at the Wyoming-Idaho state line on the Snake River. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 89, and Snake River, Greys River, Squaw Creek and Salt River. 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 88s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 88 also belongs to its deer and antelope hunt areas 88. 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.
Ground WGFD opens: Greys River
WGFD administers the Greys River Wildlife Habitat Management Area (3,042 acres) inside or across the line. Public Access Areas such as Alpine Wetlands (310 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.
What the maps name in elk hunt area 88, and what they don't
No named summit, basin or mapped water source falls inside elk hunt area 88 in the datasets we hold. That is the finding, not a reason to skip the area: unnamed country still holds animals, and it carries no other hunters following the same name to the same knob. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
Reading the land status
Federal land — BLM, Forest Service and Park Service — covers about 53% of elk hunt area 88 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 5,624 feet to 7,952 feet, averaging 6,382 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit 088 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU 88
The lay of it
- 5,624–7,952 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,382 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 18.2 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
- 15 tanks
- 109 stream segments
- 11 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
Holding ground: Greys River WHMA
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 88
Elk Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 56.1% elk success in elk hunt area 88: 32 animals taken by 57 active hunters over 422 days of hunting, or 13.2 days per animal. By residency, residents 57.4% (27 taken by 47) and nonresidents 50% (5 taken by 10).
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) | 34 | 75 | 45.3% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 19 | 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 88, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any elk), residents: 75 first-choice applicants for 34 licenses, 45.3% drawn
- Type 1 (any elk), nonresidents: 19 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% 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 88, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area, Elk Special Management Permit areas (Section 7) · 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 88, 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
- Chapter 2 — General Hunting Regulation (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Mandatory CWD sample submission (Section 17) · 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, 2026 CWD mandatory and priority sampling areas, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas inside the area · 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