How much does a hunting lease cost in Arkansas?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Arkansas typically asks about $3,405 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $2,073 and $5,334. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

What is the average price per acre for hunting land in Arkansas?

About $11.35 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 35% below the national median of $17.32. Per-acre rates fall as properties get larger, so this figure is quoted at a fixed 300 acres to stay comparable between states.

Are these Arkansas lease prices what hunters actually pay?

No. Every figure here is an asking price — what landowners list at, not what a lease finally closes for. The model is fit on listing data, so it reflects what a property is likely to be advertised at.

How reliable is the Arkansas estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 30 filtered lease listings from Arkansas. Across all states, roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, and state and acreage together explain about a quarter of the variation in asking price.

Hunting Lease Prices in Arkansas

$3,405

per year · 300 acres · Arkansas

Comparable properties list $2,073–$5,334, or about $11.35 per acre.

That is 35% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Arkansas 45 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

30 Arkansas listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Arkansas lease prices

Yearly asking prices for a property with no amenities or premium habitat specified. Adding food plots, a cabin or a trophy species raises the estimate; the calculator below accounts for those.
Property size	Typical asking price	Usual range	Per acre
40 acres	$1,873	$1,199–$2,885	$46.83
100 acres	$2,458	$1,573–$3,786	$24.58
250 acres	$3,226	$2,064–$4,968	$12.90
500 acres	$3,962	$2,096–$6,509	$7.92
1,000 acres	$4,866	$2,128–$8,529	$4.87
2,500 acres	$6,386	$2,171–$12,192	$2.55

The market

Hunting Arkansas

Arkansas has two quite different lease markets sharing one state. Delta duck ground — flooded timber and rice fields in the east — trades at prices that have nothing to do with the deer-lease rates that dominate the rest of the state, and the blended figure here sits well below what a serious waterfowl property asks. With 9.7% of the state public, deer hunters have real free alternatives; duck hunters largely do not.

Nationally, Arkansas has a middling amount of public hunting ground — ranking 21 of 50 states at 9.7% public, and a solid whitetail herd by national standards at 1.7 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Waterfowl
Turkey

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	9.7% of the state 3,232,000 acres · 21 of 50
Bucks harvested	89,791 1.7 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Waterfowl, Turkey

Within the state

Where Arkansas prices differ

The $11.35 per-acre figure above is a Arkansas average. These are the sub-markets it averages over, and they do not trade alike:

Directional, not measured — the estimate is fitted at state level and has no sub-state resolution.
Delta	Flooded timber and rice ground in the east; duck leases here are the most expensive hunting ground in the state by a wide margin and are priced on blinds, not acres.
Ozarks	Steep public-heavy hardwood country in the north, among the cheapest leasing in the region.
Ouachitas and timber south	Pine plantation leased by clubs at low per-acre rates.

Your property

Price your own Arkansas land

The table above assumes nothing about your land beyond its size. Add your game species, habitat, forage and amenities for an estimate that reflects the property you actually have.

Calculate a Arkansas lease price

Nearby markets

How Arkansas compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Arkansas.
State	Per acre	vs. Arkansas
Arizona	$9.79	lower
North Dakota	$10.77	lower
Maine	$11.66	higher
Pennsylvania	$12.48	higher

Arkansas hunting guides

Arkansas Hunting Lease Prices 2026 | Complete AR Guide to Rates, Counties & Laws

Methodology

How we estimate Arkansas lease prices

The estimate comes from a model fit on 979 filtered hunting lease listings across 48 states. A state's rate and the way price scales with acreage are both measured from that data. 30 of those listings were in Arkansas, so the Arkansas rate is drawn largely from that state's own market.

Three things are worth knowing before you quote these numbers:

These are asking prices. They are what landowners list at, not what a lease closes for.
State and size explain about a quarter of the variation. Roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, which is what two features can support — it is the honest width of the answer, not a rough edge waiting to be tuned out.
The land and deer figures above are context, not inputs. They come from Backcountry Chronicles (public hunting acreage) and the National Deer Association's 2024 Deer Report (2022 buck harvest). Neither feeds the estimate, and both correlate only weakly with what states actually charge.
Habitat, game and amenity adjustments are expert judgement, not fit from data — the listing feed does not carry those fields. They are set to be neutral on an average property, so they nudge the estimate rather than drive it.