Unit S24 (Big Piney)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 24, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Big Piney, covers about 495 square miles in Sublette and Lincoln counties. It belongs to WGFD's Darby Mountain bighorn sheep herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey gives no bighorn sheep 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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Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit S24
Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 24, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Big Piney, covers about 495 square miles in Sublette and Lincoln counties. It belongs to WGFD's Darby Mountain bighorn sheep herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey gives no bighorn sheep success figure we can tie to this area alone. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 24
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names bighorn sheep hunt area 24 "Big Piney". It runs to about 495 square miles, in Sublette (65%) and Lincoln (35%) counties. WGFD reports these bighorn sheep as the Darby Mountain herd unit, and no other hunt area shares it. 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.
The line: LaBarge Creek, Greys River and Deadman Creek
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 9 walks the line around bighorn sheep hunt area 24 corner by corner. It starts at a point where the Bridger-Teton National Forest boundary crosses LaBarge Creek. On the way round it follows LaBarge Creek, Greys River, Deadman Creek and Hoback River. 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 6 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 3.
Not the same ground as the other hunt area 24s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 24 also belongs to its elk, deer, antelope and moose hunt areas 24. Only the moose area 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 bighorn sheep area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.
High ground inside the line: Wyoming Peak, Wyoming Range and Mount Coffin
Named high points inside bighorn sheep hunt area 24 include Wyoming Peak at 11,357 feet, Wyoming Range at 11,357 feet, Mount Coffin at 11,229 feet, Triple Peak at 11,116 feet and Fish Creek Mountain at 10,803 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep need rock to escape into and will not stand far from it.
Holding ground: Beartrap Junction, Coyote Park and Meridional Valley
Below them sit Beartrap Junction at 8,987 feet, Coyote Park at 8,800 feet, Meridional Valley at 8,789 feet, Thompson Pass at 8,755 feet and Prospect Canyon at 8,505 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.
Water: Wohelo Falls and Lewis Falls
Named water inside the line includes Wohelo Falls and Lewis Falls. 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 bighorn sheep hunt area 24 runs from 6,831 feet to 11,357 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.
Unit S24 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Wyoming Peak (11,357 ft), Triple Peak (11,116 ft), Fish Creek Mountain (10,803 ft), Mount McDougal (10,765 ft)
Holding ground: Cheese Pass (10,465 ft), Gunsight Pass (10,054 ft), Lunch Creek Meadows (9,632 ft), Wohelo Falls
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 Bighorn Sheep in Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 24
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
WGFD's 2025 harvest report carries no bighorn sheep row we can read back to bighorn sheep hunt area 24 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.
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.
Search Wyoming Draw OddsWyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for bighorn sheep in bighorn sheep hunt area 24, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any ram), residents: 58 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% drawn
WGFD draws full-price bighorn sheep licenses partly on preference points, for residents and nonresidents alike, highest balance first (Chapter 44, Section 19); the figures above are from its random draw. Drawing a full-price license deletes your bighorn sheep points, and after a full-price bighorn sheep license from the initial drawing you may not apply for one again. 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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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-25.
- Chapter 9 — Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of bighorn sheep hunt area 24, 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
- 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 · 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