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Unit D109 (Bald Ridge)

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Deer Hunt Area 109, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Bald Ridge, covers about 198 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 20%, with 10 hunters taking 2 mule deer at about 28.5 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 D109

Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 109 "Bald Ridge". It runs to about 198 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 105 and 106. What WGFD publishes for the area is its boundary and its harvest; where the mule deer stand inside it is our reading of the ground, and the two are kept apart below.

The line: Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek and Paint Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 109 corner by corner. It starts where the Clark's Fork River crosses Wyoming Highway 120. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 120, and Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek, Paint Creek and Pat O'Hara Creek. That is a legal description, not a habitat map, and it is the text a warden reads you against. 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 109s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 109 also belongs to its antelope hunt area 109. 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: Public Access Areas

Public Access Areas such as Newton Lakes (471 acres) and Shoshone River-Sulphur Creek (193 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.

High ground inside the line: Dead Indian Hill, Bald Ridge and Bald Peak

Named high points inside deer hunt area 109 include Dead Indian Hill at 8,654 feet, Bald Ridge at 8,624 feet, Bald Peak at 8,624 feet, Monument Hill at 7,449 feet and Red Butte at 6,385 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: Shoshone Canyon, Dead Indian Gulch and Dead Indian Pass

Below them sit Shoshone Canyon at 4,984 feet, Dead Indian Gulch at 4,695 feet, Dead Indian Pass at 7,873 feet, Pat O'Hara Basin at 6,926 feet and Natural Corral at 6,431 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Water: Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs

Named water inside the line includes Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs. 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 deer hunt area 109 runs from 4,695 feet to 8,654 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit D109 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Dead Indian Hill (8,654 ft), Bald Ridge (8,624 ft), Red Butte (6,385 ft)

Holding ground: Dead Indian Pass (7,873 ft), Pat O'Hara Basin (6,926 ft), Dead Indian Gulch (4,695 ft)

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 109

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 10 hunters took 2 mule deer in deer hunt area 109 — 20% success, at about 28.5 days of hunting for every animal taken. Most hunters here went home without an animal; plan the trip around the days-per-animal figure, not the hope of a quick one. On a sample that small, one animal moves the percentage several points. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

License types WGFD reported in deer hunt area 109 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the mule deer harvest in deer hunt area 109 down by license type.

Type 1 — 10 licenses in use, 20% success, 28.5 days per animal (a cross-area license with areas 105 and 106)

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

CWD samples are mandatory here in 2026

WGFD's 2026 CWD map lists deer hunt area 109 as a mandatory sampling area. Chapter 2 of its regulations lets the Department require samples from harvested deer, elk and moose in designated areas and makes failing to submit one a violation, so find out before the season how WGFD wants the sample from your mule deer taken and turned in.

Glassing from Bald Peak, Monument Hill and Red Butte

Take a position on one of Bald Peak (8,624 ft), Monument Hill (7,449 ft), Red Butte (6,385 ft) and Kimball Bench (4,822 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. Late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Reading the Clark's Fork herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates mule deer by herd unit, and deer hunt area 109 shares the Clark's Fork herd unit with deer hunt areas 105 and 106. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Dead Indian Hill, Bald Ridge and Red Butte as places to see from, and Dead Indian Pass, Pat O'Hara Basin and Dead Indian Gulch 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. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

198 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 28.5 days of hunting per animal is the one to budget against. With 3,959 feet between the lowest and highest named ground, plan the walk back out of a kill site before the shot. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

Wyoming rules that decide your day

Summarised from WGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Wyoming has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground. Travel stays on designated routes.

Tagging

Attach the carcass coupon to the animal before it is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached.

Leaving meat

Wanton waste of edible meat is a serious offence in Wyoming.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 20% mule deer success in deer hunt area 109: 2 animals taken by 10 active hunters over 57 days of hunting, or 28.5 days per animal. By residency, residents 28.6% (2 taken by 7) and nonresidents 0% (0 taken by 3).

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 3 either sex (resident)	28	105	26.7%	—
Rifle — General Type 3 either sex (nonresident)	1	3	33.3%	—

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.

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Wyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for mule deer in deer hunt area 109, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:

Type 3, residents: 105 first-choice applicants for 28 licenses, 26.7% drawn
Type 3, nonresidents: 3 first-choice applicants for 1 license, 33.3% 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.

Whitetail Deer Hunting in Unit D109

Deer Hunt Area 109, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Bald Ridge, covers about 198 square miles in Park County. It belongs to WGFD's Bighorn Basin white-tailed deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put white-tailed deer success here at 79.3%, with 87 hunters taking 69 white-tailed deer at about 8.3 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 White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 109 "Bald Ridge". It runs to about 198 square miles, entirely in Park County. WGFD reports these white-tailed deer as the Bighorn Basin herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47 and 50 and 24 more. What WGFD publishes for the area is its boundary and its harvest; where the white-tailed deer stand inside it is our reading of the ground, and the two are kept apart below.

The line: Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek and Paint Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 109 corner by corner. It starts where the Clark's Fork River crosses Wyoming Highway 120. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 120, and Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek, Paint Creek and Pat O'Hara 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 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 109s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

Public Access Areas such as Newton Lakes (471 acres) and Shoshone River-Sulphur Creek (193 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.

High ground inside the line: Kimball Bench, Dead Indian Hill and Bald Ridge

Named high points inside deer hunt area 109 include Kimball Bench at 4,822 feet, Dead Indian Hill at 8,654 feet, Bald Ridge at 8,624 feet, Bald Peak at 8,624 feet and Monument Hill at 7,449 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. White-tailed deer hold to cover — river bottoms, brushy draws and timber edges — and rarely stray far from it.

Holding ground: Oxyoke Canyon, Two Dot Flats and Shoshone Canyon

Below them sit Oxyoke Canyon at 5,658 feet, Two Dot Flats at 5,131 feet, Shoshone Canyon at 4,984 feet, Dead Indian Gulch at 4,695 feet and Dead Indian Pass at 7,873 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.

Water: Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs

Named water inside the line includes Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs. 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 deer hunt area 109 runs from 4,695 feet to 8,654 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit D109 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Dead Indian Hill (8,654 ft), Bald Ridge (8,624 ft), Red Butte (6,385 ft)

Holding ground: Dead Indian Pass (7,873 ft), Pat O'Hara Basin (6,926 ft), Dead Indian Gulch (4,695 ft)

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 White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 87 hunters took 69 white-tailed deer in deer hunt area 109 — 79.3% success, at about 8.3 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 75% and nonresidents 109.1% that year. More hunters filled a license here than went home without one, and the days-per-animal figure is the honest measure of what it took. The plan: find the trails between bedding cover and feed, then sit downwind of them at first and last light.

License types WGFD reported in deer hunt area 109 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the white-tailed deer harvest in deer hunt area 109 down by license type.

Type 3 — 29 licenses in use, 69% success, 7.8 days per animal
Type 8 — 77 licenses in use, 63.6% success, 8.4 days per animal

CWD samples are mandatory here in 2026

Glassing from Dead Indian Hill, Bald Ridge and Bald Peak

Take a position on one of Dead Indian Hill (8,654 ft), Bald Ridge (8,624 ft), Bald Peak (8,624 ft) and Monument Hill (7,449 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. November bucks travel and check doe groups in daylight, which is when a stand on a travel route pays.

Reading the Bighorn Basin herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates white-tailed deer by herd unit, and deer hunt area 109 shares the Bighorn Basin herd unit with deer hunt areas 35, 37, 39, 40, 41 and 46 and 26 more. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

A first plan from the pins on this page

What we can't tell you

We have no verified road, campground or town inventory for deer hunt area 109, so the logistics below come from WGFD's own text and the map pins rather than a survey of the ground. Some named ground above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Wyoming rules that decide your day

Summarised from WGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Wyoming has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground. Travel stays on designated routes.

Tagging

Attach the carcass coupon to the animal before it is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached.

Leaving meat

Wanton waste of edible meat is a serious offence in Wyoming.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Whitetail Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Whitetail Deer Success Rates

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 79.3% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 109: 69 animals taken by 87 active hunters over 570 days of hunting, or 8.3 days per animal. By residency, residents 75% (57 taken by 76) and nonresidents 109.1% (12 taken by 11).

Whitetail Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General either sex (resident)	28	115	24.3%	—
Rifle — General either sex (nonresident)	6	15	40.0%	—

Data from 2025 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.

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The white-tailed deer draw figures we hold for Wyoming have not been checked against WGFD's demand reports, so none are printed here. WGFD's draw results and odds page has the demand report for every hunt area and license type.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Water

9 named water sources inside the hunt area in our water layer, including Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs. Which of them run in autumn is something only a scouting trip will tell you.

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Road Conditions

WGFD's boundary for the hunt area follows Wyoming Highway 120. That is the edge, not a promise of access inside — check a current motor-vehicle-use map before you drive in.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 4,695 to 8,654 ft. Named heights only — the ground between and below them can run lower.

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Hunting Pressure

WGFD's 2025 survey counted about 10 mule deer hunters spending 57 days here.

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Permit Notes

Season dates and license limitations: WGFD 2026 Chapter 6, Section 2. CWD sample submission mandatory in 2026.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Wyoming deer hunt area 109?

Deer Hunt Area 109 (Bald Ridge) covers about 198 square miles in Park County. WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 109 corner by corner. It starts where the Clark's Fork River crosses Wyoming Highway 120. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 120, and Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek, Paint Creek and Pat O'Hara Creek.

What is the mule deer success rate in deer hunt area 109?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 20% mule deer success in deer hunt area 109, with 10 hunters taking 2 mule deer at about 28.5 days of hunting per animal. That is WGFD's figure for this hunt area, not a statewide average.

Is deer hunt area 109 the same ground as antelope hunt area 109?

No. WGFD numbers hunt areas separately for each species, so antelope hunt area 109 is a different piece of ground with its own boundary and its own page. A license is valid only in the hunt area of its own species.

What do you need besides a license to hunt deer hunt area 109?

Beyond the license, deer hunt area 109 calls for a CWD sample from your animal, which WGFD has made mandatory here for 2026. Season dates and license limitations are in Section 2 of WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6.

What is the white-tailed deer success rate in deer hunt area 109?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 79.3% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 109, with 87 hunters taking 69 white-tailed deer at about 8.3 days of hunting per animal. That is WGFD's figure for this hunt area, not a statewide average.

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Sources & Verification

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 109, 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 109, 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
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

Unit D109 (Bald Ridge)

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D109

Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

The line: Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek and Paint Creek

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 109s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

High ground inside the line: Dead Indian Hill, Bald Ridge and Bald Peak

Holding ground: Shoshone Canyon, Dead Indian Gulch and Dead Indian Pass

Water: Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs

Reading the land status

Unit D109 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Whitetail Deer Hunting in Unit D109

Where to Find White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

The line: Clark's Fork River, Dead Indian Creek and Paint Creek

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 109s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

High ground inside the line: Kimball Bench, Dead Indian Hill and Bald Ridge

Holding ground: Oxyoke Canyon, Two Dot Flats and Shoshone Canyon

Water: Trough Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs

Reading the land status

Unit D109 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 109

Whitetail Deer Success Rates

Whitetail Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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