Unit A30 (LaPrele)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 30 "LaPrele". It runs to about 1,052 square miles, almost all of it in Converse County. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Medicine Bow herd unit, which also takes in antelope hunt areas 31, 32, 42, 46, 47 and 48. The boundary and the harvest figures are WGFD's. The read of the country inside them is ours, and it says so where it starts.

The line: Deer Creek, North Platte River and Jackalope Warm Springs

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 30 corner by corner. It starts at the confluence of Deer Creek and the North Platte River at the town of Glenrock. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 94, Converse County Road 5, U.S.F.S. Road 633 and U.S.F.S. Road 658, and Deer Creek, North Platte River, Jackalope Warm Springs and Soldier Creek. Read it as the legal edge of your license rather than as a hint about animals. The full text is in Section 5 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 30s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 30 also belongs to its elk, deer and moose hunt areas 30. 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 antelope area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.

Ground WGFD opens: Hermit Rock and Duncan Ranch

Its Access Yes program enrolls 2 Hunter Management Areas here that list antelope among their species — Hermit Rock (11,405 acres) and Duncan Ranch (7,464 acres). WGFD also lists 7 Walk-In Areas covering about 10,653 acres open for antelope, among them Converse 11, Converse 10 and Converse 8. 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 North Platte River-Bixby (36 acres) and North Platte River-Dave Johnston Power Plant (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: Warbonnet Peak, Buffalo Peak and Cherry Mountain

Named high points inside antelope hunt area 30 include Warbonnet Peak at 9,373 feet, Buffalo Peak at 9,370 feet, Cherry Mountain at 9,304 feet, Roaring Mountain at 9,296 feet and Twin Peaks at 9,198 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn stay on the open rolling ground and leave the timber alone.

Holding ground: Latham Pass, Redenbaugh Pass and Thirtytwo Canyon

Below them sit Latham Pass at 7,619 feet, Redenbaugh Pass at 7,585 feet, Thirtytwo Canyon at 7,560 feet, Downey Park at 7,430 feet and Fire Canyon at 7,427 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside antelope hunt area 30 runs from 4,877 feet to 9,373 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 502 hunters took 424 pronghorn in antelope hunt area 30 — 84.5% success, at about 3.9 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 81.5% and nonresidents 94.6% that year. Most hunters who held a license here filled it, so the real question is the draw, not the hunting. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

License types WGFD reported in antelope hunt area 30 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the pronghorn harvest in antelope hunt area 30 down by license type.

• Type 1 — 479 licenses in use, 82.9% success, 3.9 days per animal
• Type 6 — 43 licenses in use, 62.8% success, 4.2 days per animal

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 5, so read the line for the license you hold rather than assume it matches another area's.

Glassing from Beaver Mountain, Bar M Mountain and Blacktail Peak

Take a position on one of Beaver Mountain (8,698 ft), Bar M Mountain (8,656 ft), Blacktail Peak (8,652 ft) and Davis Peak (8,495 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

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 Medicine Bow herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates pronghorn by herd unit, and antelope hunt area 30 shares the Medicine Bow herd unit with antelope hunt areas 31, 32, 42, 46, 47 and 48. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

The way in: Wyoming Highway 94, Converse County Road 5 and U.S.F.S. Road 633

We hold no road inventory for antelope hunt area 30, so the only routes we can name are the ones WGFD draws its boundary with: Wyoming Highway 94, Converse County Road 5, U.S.F.S. Road 633, U.S.F.S. Road 658 and Converse County Road 16. Those are its edges, not its interior — where you leave the pavement, not what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; country you can only reach from its rim rewards whoever leaves the truck there.