Unit 106 (Uinta)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Elk
Elk Hunt Area 106, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Uinta, covers about 732 square miles in Uinta County. It belongs to WGFD's Uinta elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 40.8%, with 1,532 hunters taking 625 elk at about 18.3 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 18% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 106
Elk Hunt Area 106, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Uinta, covers about 732 square miles in Uinta County. It belongs to WGFD's Uinta elk herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put elk success here at 40.8%, with 1,532 hunters taking 625 elk at about 18.3 days of hunting per animal. Federal land covers about 18% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Elk Hunt Area 106
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names elk hunt area 106 "Uinta", though its own map layer still labels it Unita. It runs to about 732 square miles, entirely in Uinta County. WGFD reports these elk as the Uinta herd unit, which also takes in elk hunt area 107. What WGFD publishes for the area is its boundary and its harvest; where the elk stand inside it is our reading of the ground, and the two are kept apart below.
Where elk hunt area 106 begins and ends
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7 walks the line around elk hunt area 106 corner by corner. It starts where Interstate Highway 80 crosses the Wyoming-Utah state line. On the way round it follows Interstate Highway 80, Wyoming Highway 414, Wyoming Highway 410 and U.S.F.S. Road 072, and Stateline Dam. 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 106s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 106 also belongs to its deer and antelope hunt areas 106. 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: Coyote Creek and Knight Ridge West
Its Access Yes program enrolls 2 Hunter Management Areas here that list elk among their species — Coyote Creek (5,566 acres) and Knight Ridge West (27,117 acres). WGFD also lists 6 Walk-In Areas covering about 21,709 acres open for elk, among them Uinta 5, Uinta 8 and Uinta 8 - Archery Only. WGFD's 2026 regulations open Access Yes land only for the species and dates listed for each area, with each area's own rules on WGFD's site and no motorized travel unless WGFD says otherwise. Public Access Areas such as Blacks Fork (1 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.
High ground inside the line: Thunderbolt Mountain, Buck Fever Ridge and Mumford Ridge
Named high points inside elk hunt area 106 include Thunderbolt Mountain at 9,538 feet, Buck Fever Ridge at 9,260 feet, Mumford Ridge at 8,903 feet, Chapman Butte at 8,455 feet and Pine Knoll at 8,445 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: Gourley Meadows, Beaver Dam Hollow and Balsam Draw
Below them sit Gourley Meadows at 8,597 feet, Beaver Dam Hollow at 8,495 feet, Balsam Draw at 8,339 feet, Twomile Draw at 7,976 feet and Hilliard Flat at 7,480 feet. Those are the basins and bottoms of the area, and they are what you glass into from above.
Water: Rocky Springs, Cold Spring and Seventeen Spring
Named water inside the line includes Rocky Springs, Cold Spring, Seventeen Spring, Eight Spring, Musselman Springs and Bigelow Springs. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Unit 106 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 6,864–8,730 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,580 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 730.7 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
- 110 tanks
- 93 springs
- 2,466 stream segments
- 19 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: Buck Fever Ridge (9,260 ft), Chapman Butte (8,455 ft), Cap White Ridge (8,038 ft), Bigelow Bench (8,036 ft)
Holding ground: Deadhorse Park (8,895 ft), Jacks Park (8,861 ft), Horseshoe Bend (7,385 ft), Knight Ridge West Hunter Management Area, Walk-In Area Uinta 3
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 106
Elk Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 40.8% elk success in elk hunt area 106: 625 animals taken by 1,532 active hunters over 11,447 days of hunting, or 18.3 days per animal. By residency, residents 37.5% (482 taken by 1,286) and nonresidents 58.1% (143 taken by 246).
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) | 42 | 183 | 23.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 34 | 2.9% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 4 antlerless (resident) | 133 | 62 | 100.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 4 antlerless (nonresident) | 6 | 0 | 100.0% | — |
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 106, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any elk), residents: 183 first-choice applicants for 42 licenses, 23% drawn
- Type 4 (antlerless elk), residents: 62 first-choice applicants for 133 licenses, 100% drawn
- Type 1 (any elk), nonresidents: 34 first-choice applicants for 1 license, 2.9% 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.
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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 106, 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 106, 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: Access Yes Walk-In and Hunter Management Area rules · 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, 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