How much does a hunting lease cost in Pennsylvania?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Pennsylvania typically asks about $3,744 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $2,279 and $5,865. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $12.48 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 28% 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 26 filtered lease listings from Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania

$3,744

per year · 300 acres · Pennsylvania

Comparable properties list $2,279–$5,865, or about $12.48 per acre.

That is 28% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Pennsylvania 43 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

26 Pennsylvania listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Pennsylvania 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	$2,060	$1,318–$3,172	$51.49
100 acres	$2,703	$1,730–$4,162	$27.03
250 acres	$3,547	$2,270–$5,462	$14.19
500 acres	$4,356	$2,305–$7,157	$8.71
1,000 acres	$5,351	$2,340–$9,378	$5.35
2,500 acres	$7,022	$2,388–$13,405	$2.81

The market

Hunting Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has the highest deer density in this table at 3.7 bucks taken per square mile, and simultaneously some of the lowest lease rates in the country — because it also has 4.2 million acres of public hunting land, including over 1.5 million acres of State Game Lands bought and managed specifically for hunters. When the free ground is that good, private access struggles to command a premium.

Nationally, Pennsylvania has more public hunting ground than most states — ranking 19 of 50 states at 14.6% public, and one of the denser whitetail herds in the country at 3.7 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Turkey
Black bear

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	14.6% of the state 4,170,000 acres · 19 of 50
Bucks harvested	164,190 3.7 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey, Black bear

Within the state

Where Pennsylvania prices differ

The $12.48 per-acre figure above is a Pennsylvania 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.
Northern tier big woods	Vast forest, much of it State Game Lands; private leasing here struggles to command anything.
Southern farm counties	The productive deer ground and where most Pennsylvania lease money actually goes.
Southwest and Allegheny	Mixed farm and timber with moderate rates and heavy hunter numbers.

Your property

Price your own Pennsylvania 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.

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Nearby markets

How Pennsylvania compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Pennsylvania.
State	Per acre	vs. Pennsylvania
Arkansas	$11.35	lower
Maine	$11.66	lower
Oregon	$12.96	higher
South Dakota	$13.17	higher

Pennsylvania hunting guides

Pennsylvania Hunting Leases 2026: Prices, Land for Lease & Laws (PA Guide)

Methodology

How we estimate Pennsylvania 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. 26 of those listings were in Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania 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.