Unit D105 (Beartooth)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Deer Hunt Area 105, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Beartooth, covers about 358 square miles in Park County. It belongs to WGFD's Clark's Fork mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 32.9%, with 347 hunters taking 114 mule deer at about 14 days of hunting per animal. CWD samples are mandatory here in 2026. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D105
Deer Hunt Area 105, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Beartooth, covers about 358 square miles in Park County. It belongs to WGFD's Clark's Fork mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 32.9%, with 347 hunters taking 114 mule deer at about 14 days of hunting per animal. CWD samples are mandatory here in 2026. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 105
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 105 "Beartooth". It runs to about 358 square miles, entirely in Park County. WGFD reports these mule deer as the Clark's Fork herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 106 and 109. 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.
Where deer hunt area 105 begins and ends
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 defines deer hunt area 105 as all of the area within Wyoming north of Clark's Fork River and west of Wyoming Highway 120. Read it as the legal edge of your license rather than as a hint about animals. The full text is in Section 7 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.
Not the same ground as the other hunt area 105s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 105 also belongs to its elk hunt area 105. 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 deer area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.
Ground WGFD opens: Park 4
WGFD also lists one Walk-In Area covering about 5,538 acres open for deer: Park 4. 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 Clarks Fork River-Hatchery (281 acres) and Clarks Fork River-Beartooth Ranch (3 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.
Wilderness inside the line: Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
About 10% of deer hunt area 105 lies in the Absaroka-Beartooth 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: Tibbs Butte, Beartooth Butte and Tolman Mountain
Named high points inside deer hunt area 105 include Tibbs Butte at 10,653 feet, Beartooth Butte at 10,510 feet, Tolman Mountain at 10,423 feet, Sawtooth Mountain at 10,176 feet and Quintuple Peaks at 10,131 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.
Holding ground: Clarks Fork Canyon, Robertson Draw and Badger Basin
Below them sit Clarks Fork Canyon at 4,394 feet, Robertson Draw at 4,324 feet, Badger Basin at 4,193 feet, Beartooth Pass at 10,948 feet and Beartooth Plateau at 9,815 feet. Those are the basins and bottoms of the area, and they are what you glass into from above.
Unit D105 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Tibbs Butte (10,653 ft), Beartooth Butte (10,510 ft), Tolman Mountain (10,423 ft), Sawtooth Mountain (10,176 ft)
Holding ground: Beartooth Pass (10,948 ft), Beartooth Plateau (9,815 ft), Sawtooth Meadows (9,464 ft), Walk-In Area Park 4
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 Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 105
Mule Deer Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 32.9% mule deer success in deer hunt area 105: 114 animals taken by 347 active hunters over 1,593 days of hunting, or 14 days per animal. By residency, residents 34.8% (105 taken by 302) and nonresidents 20% (9 taken by 45).
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.
Mule Deer Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (resident) | 35 | 970 | 3.6% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 58 | 1.7% | — |
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 mule deer in deer hunt area 105, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any deer), residents: 970 first-choice applicants for 35 licenses, 3.6% drawn
- Type 1 (any deer), nonresidents: 58 first-choice applicants for 1 license, 1.7% drawn
Wyoming residents draw mule deer 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 6 — Deer Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of deer hunt area 105, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · accessed 2026-10-25
- Deer 2025 Harvest Report — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunters, harvest, percent success and days per animal for mule deer in deer hunt area 105, 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
- Chapter 2 — General Hunting Regulation (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Mandatory CWD sample submission (Section 17) · 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, 2026 CWD mandatory and priority sampling areas, 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