Can a hunter in Wyoming use a general pronghorn license to hunt this area?

No. Hunt area 99 is limited quota and drawn specifically for this area. Wyoming does not sell a general pronghorn license over the counter, and there is no regional fallback if the draw does not come through.

How many preference points do Wyoming residents need to draw for hunt area 99?

Wyoming residents do not earn or use preference points for pronghorn hunts. The resident draw for this area is random. Nonresidents, by contrast, compete in a preference-point pool where three-quarters of licenses go to applicants ranked by points and one-quarter go to a random draw.

What acreage can a hunter actually access in hunt area 99?

About 305 square miles are public land (BLM, National Forest, and State Trust Land). Much of this is landlocked by private holdings, and road conditions can make access difficult during wet periods. Eight walk-in areas and one Hunter Management Area (Coyote Creek, requiring permission) offer legal entry to private ground, though enrollment is not guaranteed from year to year.

How does weather change the hunt across the pronghorn season in hunt area 99?

August sees highs near 76°F and lows around 45°F with almost no snow. By October, highs drop to 55°F and lows to 28°F with about 2.3 inches of monthly snowfall. November is cold—highs near 42°F, lows near 18°F, and 10.3 inches of snow—which can make roads impassable and hunting difficult.

Wyoming Hunt Area 99 (Uinta) pronghorn hunting

Licence

Limited quota — drawn

Open public land

33%

Elevation

6,500–9,800 ft

Terrain

Gentle

Hunt area 99 comprises sagebrush flats, low broken hills and plains across nearly 920 square miles of high country between 6,500 and 9,800 feet. The ground is predominantly gentle, rolling terrain with slope averaging 4.2 degrees, which means an active hunter covers ground steadily on foot. Sagebrush dominates across all elevations, though conifer and aspen increase in the higher bands, and pronghorn scatter across drainages and irrigated hay lands near the Blacks Fork and Bear rivers. The country is remote and broken enough to concentrate pronghorn unevenly; spotty distribution means productive ground can be distant from poor ground, and patience to move through country without seeing animals is part of the hunt.

Most of hunt area 99 is private land—roughly two-thirds of the acreage—which makes access the first real obstacle. Public ground, mostly BLM and National Forest scattered across about 305 square miles, sits largely landlocked and is difficult to reach. Eight walk-in areas provide legal entry to private land during their open periods, subject to posted rules. One Hunter Management Area, Coyote Creek, requires a printed permission slip from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department before hunting. The southeastern portion contains a small block of accessible public land, though roads throughout the hunt area become difficult or impassable when wet. Access Yes program lands have been available through private landowners willing to grant permission after deer season closes, but enrollment is renegotiated annually and cannot be counted on from one year to the next. Crossing private land requires landowner permission regardless of public-land checkerboard inholdings.

Licence and how this hunt area is drawn

Hunt Area 99 (Uinta) 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
Type 2 · Any antelope valid north and west of Wyoming Highway 410 and west of Uinta County Road 271
Regular August 15 – November 30

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)

Type 1 hunters pursue pronghorn across two distinct phases: archery during mid-August through early September, when animals move into pre-rut territory formation and early primary rut, and rifle from mid-September through October, spanning the latter part of the primary rut into the late rut recovery and fall grouping. August stays warm, with highs in the mid-70s, while September cools into the 60s with minimal snow; by October, temperatures drop sharply and snowfall totals about 2.3 inches monthly, making high country less predictable. Public access remains difficult, and private land is primary; walk-in areas and the Coyote Creek Hunter Management Area (by permission) are the main options for legal entry. This license allows any antelope.

Type 2 — Any antelope valid north and west… (August–November)

Type 2 hunters are restricted to country north and west of Wyoming Highway 410 and west of Uinta County Road 271, a focused geography designed to manage pronghorn numbers in the western portion of the hunt area. The season runs August 15 through November 30, beginning during pre-rut territory formation in mid-August, carrying through both the primary rut in early September and the late-rut recovery into October, and extending deep into fall grouping as the season closes in late November. Temperatures fall steadily from August highs near 76°F through November lows near 18°F; snowfall increases from almost nothing in August to 10.3 inches in November, and heavy snow can render many roads nearly impassable by late season. Access remains constrained to private land through walk-in areas, the Hunter Management Area, and landowner permission. This license allows any antelope.

Land and access

private land67%

Private

BLM22%

Generally open to public hunting

National Forest7%

Generally open to public hunting

State Trust Land4%

Generally open to public hunting

About 33% of this hunt area is ground a hunter can generally count on — BLM, National Forest and State Trust Land, roughly 305 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.

This hunt area has 8 enrolled walk-in areas. It also holds 1 Hunter Management Area. Both are private ground enrolled for public access, not public land. A Hunter Management Area requires a printed permission slip from the Wyoming Game & Fish Department before hunting it. A Walk-In Area needs no permission slip — a hunter may walk in during the open period, subject to its posted rules. Enrollment is renegotiated every year, so check current status before counting on either.

Where pronghorn are mapped

Yearlong Range51%

the only layer that means year-round use

Summer Range7%

used in summer

Winter Range2%

used in winter

Crucial Winter Range2%

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

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

Lower elevations

Sagebrush75%

Other cover17%

Riparian6%

Grass and meadow2%

Mid elevations

Sagebrush74%

Riparian13%

Other cover10%

Grass and meadow2%

Conifer1%

Higher elevations

Sagebrush42%

Conifer38%

Aspen13%

Riparian5%

Other cover2%

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	34°F	10°F	11.6 in
February	35°F	11°F	9.8 in
March	43°F	18°F	8.8 in
April	50°F	24°F	7 in
May	59°F	32°F	0.5 in
June	69°F	39°F	0 in
July	77°F	46°F	0 in
August	76°F	45°F	0 in
September	67°F	37°F	0.2 in
October	55°F	28°F	2.3 in
November	42°F	18°F	10.3 in
December	33°F	10°F	10.6 in

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

Common questions

Can a hunter in Wyoming use a general pronghorn license to hunt this area?: No. Hunt area 99 is limited quota and drawn specifically for this area. Wyoming does not sell a general pronghorn license over the counter, and there is no regional fallback if the draw does not come through.
How many preference points do Wyoming residents need to draw for hunt area 99?: Wyoming residents do not earn or use preference points for pronghorn hunts. The resident draw for this area is random. Nonresidents, by contrast, compete in a preference-point pool where three-quarters of licenses go to applicants ranked by points and one-quarter go to a random draw.
What acreage can a hunter actually access in hunt area 99?: About 305 square miles are public land (BLM, National Forest, and State Trust Land). Much of this is landlocked by private holdings, and road conditions can make access difficult during wet periods. Eight walk-in areas and one Hunter Management Area (Coyote Creek, requiring permission) offer legal entry to private ground, though enrollment is not guaranteed from year to year.
When does the pronghorn hunting season run in hunt area 99?: Type 1 offers archery August 15 to September 9 and rifle September 10 to October 31. Type 2, valid north and west of Wyoming Highway 410 and west of Uinta County Road 271, runs August 15 to November 30. Each season is limited quota and drawn separately for that area only.
How does weather change the hunt across the pronghorn season in hunt area 99?: August sees highs near 76°F and lows around 45°F with almost no snow. By October, highs drop to 55°F and lows to 28°F with about 2.3 inches of monthly snowfall. November is cold—highs near 42°F, lows near 18°F, and 10.3 inches of snow—which can make roads impassable and hunting difficult.

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