Unit A58 (Black Butte-Kenny Rim)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 58 "Black Butte-Kenny Rim". It runs to about 1,094 square miles, entirely in Sweetwater County. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Bitter Creek herd unit, which also takes in antelope hunt area 57. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the pronghorn live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.

The line: Rock Springs, Bitter Creek and Carson Springs

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 58 corner by corner. It starts at the junction of Wyoming Highway 430 and the Wyoming-Colorado state line. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 430, Interstate Highway 80 and Sweetwater County Road 19, and Rock Springs, Bitter Creek, Carson Springs and Cow Creek. It is the description your license is good inside, so it is worth reading once in full before you go. 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 58s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 58 also belongs to its elk hunt area 58. 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.

High ground inside the line: Pine Butte, Sand Butte and Kinney Rim

Named high points inside antelope hunt area 58 include Pine Butte at 8,762 feet, Sand Butte at 8,576 feet, Kinney Rim at 8,193 feet, Sand Butte Rim at 8,077 feet and Black Buttes at 8,047 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: East Draw, Long Draw and Bone Draw

Below them sit East Draw at 7,123 feet, Long Draw at 7,053 feet, Bone Draw at 7,012 feet, Granary Draw at 6,945 feet and Antelope Flats at 6,939 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Water: Sand Butte Spring, Antelope Springs and Barney Meadows Spring

Named water inside the line includes Sand Butte Spring, Antelope Springs and Barney Meadows Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside antelope hunt area 58 runs from 6,431 feet to 8,762 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 51 hunters took 44 pronghorn in antelope hunt area 58 — 86.3% success, at about 5.8 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 83.7% and nonresidents 100% 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 58 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the pronghorn harvest in antelope hunt area 58 down by license type.

• Type 1 — 51 licenses in use, 86.3% success, 5.8 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 Shiprock, Pine Butte and Sand Butte

Take a position on one of Shiprock (6,800 ft), Pine Butte (8,762 ft), Sand Butte (8,576 ft) and Kinney Rim (8,193 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.

Reading the Bitter Creek herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates pronghorn by herd unit, and antelope hunt area 58 shares the Bitter Creek herd unit with antelope hunt area 57. 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 430, Interstate Highway 80 and Sweetwater County Road 19

We hold no road inventory for antelope hunt area 58, so the only routes we can name are the ones WGFD draws its boundary with: Wyoming Highway 430, Interstate Highway 80 and Sweetwater County Road 19. Those are its edges, not its interior — where you leave the pavement, not what the inside is like. Check each on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a road in a legal description isn't a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Kinney Rim, Cooper Ridge and Five Monument Butte as places to see from, and Sand Butte Basin, Chicken Springs Basin and East Draw as ground to work. Each pin is a named feature or a WGFD access property placed inside the area line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

1,094 square miles is more country than a season will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the area. WGFD's figure of 5.8 days of hunting per animal is the one to budget against. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.