Can a hunter draw a general or region licence for hunt area 92?

No. Hunt area 92 is a limited-quota area drawn individually by resident and nonresident applicants alike. There is no general pronghorn licence in Wyoming and no region licence; every pronghorn hunt area in the state is limited quota only. If the draw does not come through, there is no alternative licence to fall back on.

Do Wyoming residents need preference points for pronghorn in hunt area 92?

No. Wyoming residents have no pronghorn preference points at all, and the resident draw is random with no points involved. Preference points exist only for nonresidents, where three quarters of the licences are awarded by points (top-down to those with the most) and a quarter go to a random draw of all applicants in the pool.

What seasons are open for hunt area 92?

One season is offered: Any antelope from August 15 through October 31, split into an archery window (August 15–September 9) and a regular season (September 10–October 31). Both windows are part of the same draw, and a successful applicant may hunt through both dates with the appropriate tag.

Where can a hunter actually get onto public land in hunt area 92?

The northern portion of the hunt area is almost entirely BLM and State land with only scattered private parcels, offering straightforward access to most of the pronghorn habitat. The southern checkerboard section has alternating sections of public and private land, but hunters generally find good access to public ground there as well. Roads can become difficult to travel when wet due to clay soil.

What is the access rating for hunt area 92?

The area has good access overall. Roughly three quarters of the hunt area is dependably public land (BLM and State Trust Land) that hunters can generally count on. Public ownership does not guarantee easy entry everywhere due to roads, trailheads, and seasonal closures, but the rated access here supports realistic hunting opportunities.

Wyoming Hunt Area 92 (Steamboat) pronghorn hunting

Licence

Limited quota — drawn

Open public land

75%

Elevation

6,300–8,700 ft

Terrain

Gentle

Hunt area 92 is a 1,344-square-mile block of high country between 6,300 and 8,700 feet, with typical ground around 7,000 feet. The terrain is mostly gentle—nearly all of it slopes under a mean of 3.6 degrees—and consists of open sagebrush flats, rolling hills, and scattered mesas and buttes. Juniper appears only in broken country in the southern portion. The landscape is wide and exposed; hunters cover ground on foot across short-grass and sagebrush country with little to hide behind and nowhere to climb to put themselves above game. About 75% of the area is BLM and State Trust Land that hunters can generally count on, though the southern portion is checkerboard landownership where public and private sections alternate. Roads throughout the hunt area become difficult when wet due to clay soil, which matters as much as ownership when planning access.

Pronghorn are distributed across the hunt area at varying densities, but the northern reaches—especially around Pacific Creek and in the sagebrush flats south of the Oregon Buttes—hold the greatest numbers during the hunting season. The agricultural fields around Farson and Eden draw and concentrate animals, and these areas tend to hold better buck-to-doe ratios than the rest of the hunt area. The southern checkerboard portion sees little hunting pressure despite good access to public land, and pronghorn there are harder to find. The country in the north and central areas is more accessible and more predictable, and hunters typically focus there.

Licence and how this hunt area is drawn

Hunt Area 92 (Steamboat) is limited quota. A licence for it must be drawn for this hunt area specifically, by resident and nonresident alike. Wyoming issues no general pronghorn licence and no region pronghorn licence, so there is no over-the-counter option and no regional fallback: every pronghorn hunt area in the state is drawn on its own.

Wyoming residents have no preference points for pronghorn — the resident pronghorn draw is random, and no resident point cutoff exists for any hunt area in the state. For nonresidents points matter a great deal: Wyoming awards 75% of each nonresident pool through the preference-point draw, top-down by points, and the remaining 25% at random. Nonresidents also choose between the Regular and Special pools — the same hunts at two price points, competing separately.

Seasons (2026)

Type 1 · Any antelope
Archery August 15 – September 9Regular September 10 – October 31

The wording of each hunt is the Wyoming Game & Fish Department’s and is legally exact — a “cow or calf” hunt is not a pronghorn hunt in general, and a hunt limited to part of the area is not valid across it. Confirm every hunt in the current regulations before applying.

Hunting each season

Type 1 — Any antelope (August–October)

Hunting opens to archery in mid-August and closes to regular rifle on the last day of October, spanning the rut from territory formation through the post-rut grouping phase. The August archery window takes place in warm weather with highs near 79 degrees and little snow, when pronghorn are beginning to establish territories and buck behavior becomes more predictable as early rut activity picks up; by the opening of September archery, bucks are aggressive and visible during the primary rut phase. The regular season opens in mid-September while the rut is at its peak, then continues into late September and October as bucks finish breeding and pronghorn begin moving into fall grouping patterns. September brings cooling temperatures (highs near 69 degrees) and small amounts of snow (around half an inch), while October grows cold—highs drop to 55 degrees and snow accumulates to about an inch and a half per month. The northern portions of the hunt area, especially the Pacific Creek drainage and the sagebrush flats south of the Oregon Buttes, concentrate the greatest numbers of pronghorn throughout the season and receive the most hunting effort; the Farson and Eden agricultural areas also hold good densities. This hunt allows the take of any antelope (bucks, does, and fawns) in hunt area 92 specifically.

Land and access

BLM71%

Generally open to public hunting

private land23%

Private

State Trust Land4%

Generally open to public hunting

unclassified ownership2%

Ownership unclassified

About 75% of this hunt area is ground a hunter can generally count on — BLM and State Trust Land, roughly 1,009 square miles. Public ownership is not the same as easy entry: roads, trailheads, seasonal closures and private inholdings all still apply.

State trust land counts toward the open figure above. Wyoming extends hunting on legally accessiblestate trust land to the public unless a parcel is specifically closed — the catch is the access itself, since crossing private ground to reach it still needs the landowner’s permission. Camping, fires and off-road vehicles are not allowed on it.

Where pronghorn are mapped

Winter Range65%

used in winter

Crucial Winter Range39%

the part of Winter Range considered essential to the herd — inside Winter Range, not added to it

Summer Range35%

used in summer

Yearlong Range26%

the only layer that means year-round use

Each figure is the share of the hunt area that layer covers. It says where pronghorn are mapped, not where inside the area they are, and not when they move.

Habitat and cover

Across the unit

Sagebrush95%

Other cover3%

Grass and meadow2%

Shares are of each elevation band, not of the whole hunt area — they describe what grows up there, not how much of the area sits at that elevation.

Weather through the season

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Snowfall
January	31°F	9°F	5.5 in
February	33°F	11°F	5.3 in
March	43°F	19°F	3.6 in
April	51°F	25°F	2.5 in
May	61°F	34°F	0.1 in
June	72°F	42°F	0 in
July	81°F	49°F	0 in
August	79°F	48°F	0 in
September	69°F	39°F	0.5 in
October	55°F	29°F	1.5 in
November	40°F	18°F	4.5 in
December	30°F	9°F	7 in

Snowfall is the monthly total, not depth lying on the ground.

Common questions

Can a hunter draw a general or region licence for hunt area 92?: No. Hunt area 92 is a limited-quota area drawn individually by resident and nonresident applicants alike. There is no general pronghorn licence in Wyoming and no region licence; every pronghorn hunt area in the state is limited quota only. If the draw does not come through, there is no alternative licence to fall back on.
Do Wyoming residents need preference points for pronghorn in hunt area 92?: No. Wyoming residents have no pronghorn preference points at all, and the resident draw is random with no points involved. Preference points exist only for nonresidents, where three quarters of the licences are awarded by points (top-down to those with the most) and a quarter go to a random draw of all applicants in the pool.
What seasons are open for hunt area 92?: One season is offered: Any antelope from August 15 through October 31, split into an archery window (August 15–September 9) and a regular season (September 10–October 31). Both windows are part of the same draw, and a successful applicant may hunt through both dates with the appropriate tag.
Where can a hunter actually get onto public land in hunt area 92?: The northern portion of the hunt area is almost entirely BLM and State land with only scattered private parcels, offering straightforward access to most of the pronghorn habitat. The southern checkerboard section has alternating sections of public and private land, but hunters generally find good access to public ground there as well. Roads can become difficult to travel when wet due to clay soil.
What is the access rating for hunt area 92?: The area has good access overall. Roughly three quarters of the hunt area is dependably public land (BLM and State Trust Land) that hunters can generally count on. Public ownership does not guarantee easy entry everywhere due to roads, trailheads, and seasonal closures, but the rated access here supports realistic hunting opportunities.

Sources

Wyoming Game & Fish — Hunting & Trapping — licence types, general and limited-quota hunts, and season structure
WGFD Hunt Planner — hunt-area boundaries, season dates and the unit descriptions
WGFD — Draw results and odds — how the resident random draw and the nonresident preference-point draw work
WGFD — Regulations — the legal limitations on each hunt, and the statewide licence rules
USGS National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2021) and 3DEP elevation — land cover and terrain by elevation band

Seasons, licence types and boundaries change. Confirm every detail with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department before applying or hunting.

All Wyoming pronghorn hunt areas