Unit 111 (Seminoe)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names elk hunt area 111 "Seminoe". It runs to about 919 square miles, in Carbon (87%) and Natrona (13%) counties. WGFD reports these elk as the Ferris herd unit, which also takes in elk hunt area 22. 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 111 begins and ends

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7 walks the line around elk hunt area 111 corner by corner. It starts at the junction of U.S. Highway 287 and Interstate Highway 80 at the city of Rawlins. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 287, Interstate Highway 80, Carbon County Road 100 and Carbon County Road 497, and North Platte River. 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 111s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 111 also belongs to its deer and antelope hunt areas 111. 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: Morgan Creek and Stone Creek

WGFD administers the Morgan Creek Wildlife Habitat Management Area (4,738 acres) inside or across the line. Its Access Yes program enrolls a Hunter Management Area here that list elk among their species — Stone Creek (14,915 acres). WGFD also lists one Walk-In Area covering about 6,772 acres open for elk: Carbon 5. 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.

High ground inside the line: Seminoe Mountains, Bradley Peak and Windy Ridge

Named high points inside elk hunt area 111 include Seminoe Mountains at 8,914 feet, Bradley Peak at 8,914 feet, Windy Ridge at 7,917 feet, Haystack Mountains at 7,848 feet and Junk Hill at 7,711 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: Corral Canyon, Stinkhole Draw and Coal Creek Canyon

Below them sit Corral Canyon at 6,746 feet, Stinkhole Draw at 6,694 feet, Coal Creek Canyon at 6,680 feet, Coal Springs Draw at 6,680 feet and Wild Horse Draw at 6,677 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Water: Cheyenne Spring, Sand Springs and O'Brien Spring

Named water inside the line includes Cheyenne Spring, Sand Springs, O'Brien Spring, McCain Spring, Bell Springs and Brown Canyon Springs. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 379 hunters took 165 elk in elk hunt area 111 — 43.5% success, at about 15.8 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 43.6% and nonresidents 43.1% that year. Fewer than half the hunters here filled a license, which makes scouting time the difference between the two groups. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

License types WGFD reported in elk hunt area 111 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the elk harvest in elk hunt area 111 down by license type.

• Type 1 — 80 licenses in use, 67.5% success, 11.4 days per animal (a cross-area license with area 22)
• Type 2 — 26 licenses in use, 30.8% success, 15.9 days per animal
• Type 4 — 121 licenses in use, 34.7% success, 17.6 days per animal (a cross-area license with area 22)
• Type 6 — 201 licenses in use, 30.3% success, 18.4 days per animal (a cross-area license with area 22)

What each type allows — antlered, antlerless, archery-only, where it is valid — and this year's dates are set area by area in Section 2 of WGFD's 2026 Chapter 7, so read the line for the license you hold rather than assume it matches another area's.

Glassing from Bear Mountain, Table Mountain and Brown Canyon Rim

Take a position on one of Bear Mountain (7,530 ft), Table Mountain (7,500 ft), Brown Canyon Rim (7,315 ft) and Wild Horse Mountain (7,302 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch, and expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Hunting the Access Yes ground

Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas are private land opened through WGFD's Access Yes program, and the 2026 regulations open each one only for the species and dates listed for it. Read the area's page on WGFD's site before you go — its rules, its dates and whether it needs anything more than your license. Anything else on that land, or any species not listed, needs the landowner's permission, so treat the Access Yes line as the edge of what you were given.

Reading the Ferris herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates elk by herd unit, and elk hunt area 111 shares the Ferris herd unit with elk hunt area 22. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

Getting past the roads: Buzzard Road and WY 220

Buzzard Road, WY 220 and I 80 / US 30 / US 287 are the named routes in our road inventory for the area. The country past the end of the gravel is the part worth your legs.

What we can't tell you

Some named ground above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.