Unit A85 (Gros Ventre)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Pronghorn
Antelope Hunt Area 85, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Gros Ventre, covers about 873 square miles in Teton, Fremont and Sublette counties. It belongs to WGFD's Sublette antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey gives no pronghorn success figure we can tie to this area alone. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit A85
Antelope Hunt Area 85, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Gros Ventre, covers about 873 square miles in Teton, Fremont and Sublette counties. It belongs to WGFD's Sublette antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey gives no pronghorn success figure we can tie to this area alone. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 85
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 85 "Gros Ventre". It runs to about 873 square miles, in Teton (93%), Fremont (5%) and Sublette (3%) counties. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Sublette herd unit, which also takes in antelope hunt areas 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92 and 93 and 3 more. 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: Gros Ventre River, Continental Divide and Togwotee Pass
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 85 corner by corner. It starts where U.S. Highway 191 crosses the Gros Ventre River at the northwest corner of the National Elk Refuge boundary. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 191, U.S. Highway 26, U.S.F.S. Road 600 and U.S.F.S. Road 620, and Gros Ventre River, Continental Divide, Togwotee Pass and Union Pass. 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 85s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 85 also belongs to its elk hunt area 85. Their lines overlap this area in places and depart from it in others. 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: Teton and Woods Canyon
WGFD administers 3 Wildlife Habitat Management Areas inside or across the line, including Teton (974 acres), Woods Canyon (624 acres) and Patrol Cabin (160 acres). Its Access Yes program enrolls a Hunter Management Area here that list antelope among their species — National Elk Refuge (24,450 acres). 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.
Wilderness inside the line: Gros Ventre Wilderness
About 31% of antelope hunt area 85 lies in the Gros Ventre 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: Doubletop Peak, Darwin Peak and Black Peak
Named high points inside antelope hunt area 85 include Doubletop Peak at 11,663 feet, Darwin Peak at 11,634 feet, Black Peak at 11,618 feet, Triangle Peak at 11,478 feet and Sheep Mountain at 11,231 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.
Unit A85 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Doubletop Peak (11,663 ft), Darwin Peak (11,634 ft), Black Peak (11,618 ft), Sheep Mountain (11,231 ft)
Holding ground: Packsaddle Pass (10,136 ft), Hidden Basin (9,769 ft), Grizzly Basin (9,751 ft), National Elk Refuge Hunter Management Area, Teton 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 85
Pronghorn Success Rates
WGFD's 2025 harvest report carries no pronghorn row we can read back to antelope hunt area 85 on its own, so no figure is given here — a statewide average printed under this heading would look measured and would not be. WGFD's harvest reports page has the full tables.
Pronghorn Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (resident) | 16 | 141 | 11.3% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 20 | 0.0% | — |
Data from 2022 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 2022 demand report for pronghorn in antelope hunt area 85, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any antelope), residents: 141 first-choice applicants for 16 licenses, 11.3% drawn
- Type 1 (any antelope), nonresidents: 20 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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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 85, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · 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, 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