Wyoming Mule Deer Whitetail Deer

Unit D112 (Ishawooa)

Wyoming Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer

Deer Hunt Area 112, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Ishawooa, covers about 227 square miles in Park County. It belongs to WGFD's Upper Shoshone mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 43.3%, with 540 hunters taking 234 mule deer at about 10.1 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D112

Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 112 "Ishawooa". It runs to about 227 square miles, entirely in Park County. WGFD reports these mule deer as the Upper Shoshone herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 110, 111, 113, 114, 115 and 148. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the mule deer live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.

The line: South Fork, Shoshone River and Fall Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 defines deer hunt area 112 as all of the north and west drainage of the South Fork of the Shoshone River up to the drainage of Fall 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 112s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 112 also belongs to its antelope hunt area 112. 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 South Fork Shoshone River-Andy Martin Hill (29 acres) and South Fork Shoshone River-Cody Canal (72 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.

Wilderness inside the line: Washakie Wilderness

About 56% of deer hunt area 112 lies in the Washakie 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: Wapiti Ridge, Citadel Mountain and Horses Head

Named high points inside deer hunt area 112 include Wapiti Ridge at 12,049 feet, Citadel Mountain at 11,904 feet, Horses Head at 11,012 feet, Kingfisher Peak at 10,974 feet and Ishawooa Mesa at 10,720 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: Spruce Meadow and Cut Coulee

Below them sit Spruce Meadow at 8,280 feet and Cut Coulee at 7,425 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside deer hunt area 112 runs from 6,039 feet to 12,049 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit D112 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wapiti Ridge (12,049 ft), Citadel Mountain (11,904 ft), Horses Head (11,012 ft), Kingfisher Peak (10,974 ft)

Holding ground: Spruce Meadow (8,280 ft), Cut Coulee (7,425 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 112

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 540 hunters took 234 mule deer in deer hunt area 112 — 43.3% success, at about 10.1 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 39.2% and nonresidents 58% that year. Fewer than half the hunters here filled a license, which makes scouting time the difference between the two groups. 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 112 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the mule deer harvest in deer hunt area 112 down by license type.

Type 1 — 20 licenses in use, 80% success, 5.6 days per animal (a cross-area license with areas 113 and 114)
General — 520 licenses in use, 41.9% success, 10.5 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 6, so read the line for the license you hold rather than assume it matches another area's.

Glassing from Castle Rock, Wapiti Ridge and Citadel Mountain

Take a position on one of Castle Rock (6,039 ft), Wapiti Ridge (12,049 ft), Citadel Mountain (11,904 ft) and Horses Head (11,012 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Reading the Upper Shoshone herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates mule deer by herd unit, and deer hunt area 112 shares the Upper Shoshone herd unit with deer hunt areas 110, 111, 113, 114, 115 and 148. 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 Wapiti Ridge, Citadel Mountain and Horses Head as places to see from, and Spruce Meadow, Cut Coulee and South Fork Shoshone River-Houlihan/Bobcat Public Access Area 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

227 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 10.1 days of hunting per animal is the one to budget against. With 6,010 feet between the lowest and highest named ground, plan the walk back out of a kill site before the shot. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

What we can't tell you

We have no verified road, campground or town inventory for deer hunt area 112, 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.

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 43.3% mule deer success in deer hunt area 112: 234 animals taken by 540 active hunters over 2,373 days of hunting, or 10.1 days per animal. By residency, residents 39.2% (165 taken by 421) and nonresidents 58% (69 taken by 119).

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 antlered (resident)	20	326	6.1%	—
Rifle — General Type 1 antlered (nonresident)	0	10	0.0%	—
Rifle — General Type 3 either sex (resident)	60	75	80.0%	—
Rifle — General Type 3 either sex (nonresident)	3	0	100.0%	—

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 112, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:

Type 1, residents: 326 first-choice applicants for 20 licenses, 6.1% drawn
Type 3, residents: 75 first-choice applicants for 60 licenses, 80% drawn
Type 1, nonresidents: 10 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% 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 D112

Deer Hunt Area 112, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Ishawooa, covers about 227 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 35.9%, with 295 hunters taking 106 white-tailed deer at about 17.2 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 112 "Ishawooa". It runs to about 227 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. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the white-tailed deer live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.

The line: South Fork, Shoshone River and Fall Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 defines deer hunt area 112 as all of the north and west drainage of the South Fork of the Shoshone River up to the drainage of Fall 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 112s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

Wilderness inside the line: Washakie Wilderness

High ground inside the line: Gobblers Knob, Sheep Mountain and Ishawooa Hills

Named high points inside deer hunt area 112 include Gobblers Knob at 10,409 feet, Sheep Mountain at 7,993 feet, Ishawooa Hills at 6,903 feet, Castle Rock at 6,039 feet and Wapiti Ridge at 12,049 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: Spruce Meadow and Cut Coulee

Below them sit Spruce Meadow at 8,280 feet and Cut Coulee at 7,425 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside deer hunt area 112 runs from 6,039 feet to 12,049 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit D112 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wapiti Ridge (12,049 ft), Citadel Mountain (11,904 ft), Horses Head (11,012 ft), Kingfisher Peak (10,974 ft)

Holding ground: Spruce Meadow (8,280 ft), Cut Coulee (7,425 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 112

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 295 hunters took 106 white-tailed deer in deer hunt area 112 — 35.9% success, at about 17.2 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 34.1% and nonresidents 48.6% that year. Fewer than half the hunters here filled a license, which makes scouting time the difference between the two groups. 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 112 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the white-tailed deer harvest in deer hunt area 112 down by license type.

Type 1 — 3 licenses in use, 0% success (a cross-area license with areas 113 and 114)
Type 3 — 58 licenses in use, 56.9% success, 16.9 days per animal (a cross-area license with area 113)
Type 8 — 139 licenses in use, 45.3% success, 11 days per animal (a cross-area license with area 113)
General — 173 licenses in use, 5.8% success, 57.5 days per animal

Glassing from Kingfisher Peak, Ishawooa Mesa and Gobblers Knob

Take a position on one of Kingfisher Peak (10,974 ft), Ishawooa Mesa (10,720 ft), Gobblers Knob (10,409 ft) and Sheep Mountain (7,993 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. 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 112 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

The map above marks Wapiti Ridge, Citadel Mountain and Horses Head as places to see from, and Spruce Meadow, Cut Coulee and South Fork Shoshone River-Houlihan/Bobcat Public Access Area 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

227 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 17.2 days of hunting per animal is the one to budget against. With 6,010 feet between the lowest and highest named ground, plan the walk back out of a kill site before the shot. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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 35.9% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 112: 106 animals taken by 295 active hunters over 1,828 days of hunting, or 17.2 days per animal. By residency, residents 34.1% (88 taken by 258) and nonresidents 48.6% (18 taken by 37).

Whitetail Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General either sex (resident)	60	75	80.0%	—
Rifle — General either sex (nonresident)	12	1	100.0%	—

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

No named water source falls inside the hunt area in our water layer, so plan on carrying water or finding it on a scouting trip.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 6,039 to 12,049 ft. More than 4,000 feet between them alone, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Hunting Pressure

WGFD's 2025 survey counted about 540 mule deer hunters spending 2,373 days here.

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Permit Notes

Season dates and license limitations: WGFD 2026 Chapter 6, Section 2. Nonresidents need a licensed or resident guide in designated wilderness.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Wyoming deer hunt area 112?

Deer Hunt Area 112 (Ishawooa) covers about 227 square miles in Park County. WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 defines deer hunt area 112 as all of the north and west drainage of the South Fork of the Shoshone River up to the drainage of Fall Creek.

What is the mule deer success rate in deer hunt area 112?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 43.3% mule deer success in deer hunt area 112, with 540 hunters taking 234 mule deer at about 10.1 days of hunting per animal. That is WGFD's figure for this hunt area, not a statewide average.

Is deer hunt area 112 the same ground as antelope hunt area 112?

No. WGFD numbers hunt areas separately for each species, so antelope hunt area 112 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 112?

Beyond the license, deer hunt area 112 calls for a licensed professional or resident guide if you are a nonresident hunting the wilderness part of the area. 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 112?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 35.9% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 112, with 295 hunters taking 106 white-tailed deer at about 17.2 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 112, 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 112, 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

Unit D112 (Ishawooa)

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D112

Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

The line: South Fork, Shoshone River and Fall Creek

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 112s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

Wilderness inside the line: Washakie Wilderness

High ground inside the line: Wapiti Ridge, Citadel Mountain and Horses Head

Holding ground: Spruce Meadow and Cut Coulee

Reading the land status

Unit D112 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Whitetail Deer Hunting in Unit D112

Where to Find White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

The line: South Fork, Shoshone River and Fall Creek

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 112s

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

Wilderness inside the line: Washakie Wilderness

High ground inside the line: Gobblers Knob, Sheep Mountain and Ishawooa Hills

Holding ground: Spruce Meadow and Cut Coulee

Reading the land status

Unit D112 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 112

Whitetail Deer Success Rates

Whitetail Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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