Unit A50 (Elk Mountain)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Antelope
Antelope Hunt Area 50, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Elk Mountain, covers about 1,186 square miles in Carbon and Albany counties. It belongs to WGFD's Elk Mountain antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put pronghorn success here at 88.4%, with 395 hunters taking 349 pronghorn at about 3.3 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Antelope Hunting in Unit A50
Antelope Hunt Area 50, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Elk Mountain, covers about 1,186 square miles in Carbon and Albany counties. It belongs to WGFD's Elk Mountain antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put pronghorn success here at 88.4%, with 395 hunters taking 349 pronghorn at about 3.3 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 50
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 50 "Elk Mountain". It runs to about 1,186 square miles, in Carbon (88%) and Albany (12%) counties. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Elk Mountain herd unit, and no other hunt area shares it. What WGFD publishes for the area is its boundary and its harvest; where the pronghorn stand inside it is our reading of the ground, and the two are kept apart below.
The line: North Platte River, Rock Creek and Deep Creek
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 50 corner by corner. It starts where Interstate Highway 80 crosses the North Platte River. On the way round it follows Interstate Highway 80 and Wyoming Highway 230, and North Platte River, Rock Creek, Deep Creek and Laramie River. 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 50s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 50 also belongs to its deer hunt area 50. None of it 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: Pennock Mountain and Wick Brothers/Beumee
WGFD administers 2 Wildlife Habitat Management Areas inside or across the line, including Pennock Mountain (9,858 acres) and Wick Brothers/Beumee (23,408 acres). Public Access Areas such as Saratoga Lake (852 acres) and North Platte River-Pick Bridge (50 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.
Wilderness inside the line: Savage Run Wilderness and Platte River Wilderness
About 2% of antelope hunt area 50 lies in the Savage Run Wilderness and 2% of antelope hunt area 50 lies in the Platte River 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: Medicine Bow Peak, Browns Peak and Snowy Range
Named high points inside antelope hunt area 50 include Medicine Bow Peak at 11,985 feet, Browns Peak at 11,717 feet, Snowy Range at 11,417 feet, Elk Mountain at 11,150 feet and Kennaday Peak at 10,809 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: Hay Park, Grindstone Park and Sawmill Park
Below them sit Hay Park at 9,105 feet, Grindstone Park at 9,051 feet, Sawmill Park at 8,877 feet, Racehorse Park at 8,869 feet and Stanley Park at 8,844 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.
Unit A50 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Medicine Bow Peak (11,985 ft), Browns Peak (11,717 ft), Elk Mountain (11,150 ft), Kennaday Peak (10,809 ft)
Holding ground: Snowy Range Pass (10,879 ft), Johnson Park (10,411 ft), Cecil Park (9,568 ft), Pennock Mountain 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 Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 50
Antelope Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 88.4% pronghorn success in antelope hunt area 50: 349 animals taken by 395 active hunters over 1,139 days of hunting, or 3.3 days per animal. By residency, residents 86.3% (264 taken by 306) and nonresidents 95.5% (85 taken by 89).
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.
Antelope Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — General Type 0 either sex (resident) | 60 | 48 | 100.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 0 either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 17 | 11.8% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (resident) | 289 | 497 | 58.1% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 10 | 158 | 6.3% | — |
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 pronghorn in antelope hunt area 50, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any antelope), residents: 497 first-choice applicants for 289 licenses, 58.1% drawn
- Type 1 (any antelope), nonresidents: 158 first-choice applicants for 10 licenses, 6.3% drawn
- Type 0, residents: 48 first-choice applicants for 60 licenses, 100% drawn
- Type 0, nonresidents: 17 first-choice applicants for 2 licenses, 11.8% drawn
Wyoming residents draw pronghorn 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
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-25.
- Chapter 5 — Antelope Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of antelope hunt area 50, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · accessed 2026-10-25
- Antelope 2025 Harvest Report — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunters, harvest, percent success and days per animal for pronghorn in antelope hunt area 50, 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, 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