Unit S6 (Targhee)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names bighorn sheep hunt area 6 "Targhee". It runs to about 406 square miles, entirely in Teton County. WGFD reports these bighorn sheep as the Targhee herd unit, and no other hunt area shares it. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the bighorn sheep live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.

Where bighorn sheep hunt area 6 begins and ends

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 9 walks the line around bighorn sheep hunt area 6 corner by corner. It starts where Wyoming Highway 22 crosses the Wyoming-Idaho state line. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 22. 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 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 6s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 6 also belongs to its elk, deer, antelope and moose hunt areas 6. None of them 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.

Ground WGFD opens: Public Access Areas

Public Access Areas such as Coco Belle Van Meerendonk (43 acres) are public ways onto water and land; check what each allows before you count on it for hunting.

Wilderness inside the line: Jedediah Smith Wilderness and Winegar Hole Wilderness

About 48% of bighorn sheep hunt area 6 lies in the Jedediah Smith Wilderness and 4% of bighorn sheep hunt area 6 lies in the Winegar Hole 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: Table Mountain, Mount Bannon and Rendezvous Mountain

Named high points inside bighorn sheep hunt area 6 include Table Mountain at 11,076 feet, Mount Bannon at 10,968 feet, Rendezvous Mountain at 10,905 feet, Fossil Mountain at 10,896 feet and Rendezvous Peak at 10,884 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: Taylor Basin, Phillips Pass and Carrot Knoll

Below them sit Taylor Basin at 8,968 feet, Phillips Pass at 8,922 feet, Carrot Knoll at 8,818 feet, Conant Pass at 8,754 feet and Indian Meadows at 8,249 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.

Water: Badger Spring, Nelson Spring and Crystal Spring

Named water inside the line includes Badger Spring, Nelson Spring and Crystal Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.