How much does a hunting lease cost in Wyoming?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Wyoming typically asks about $5,430 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,305 and $8,506. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $18.10 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 5% above 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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming estimate?

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median. It rests on 6 filtered lease listings from Wyoming. 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 Wyoming

$5,430

per year · 300 acres · Wyoming

Comparable properties list $3,305–$8,506, or about $18.10 per acre.

That is 5% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Wyoming 18 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Thin data

6 Wyoming listings

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median.

By property size

Typical Wyoming 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	$2,987	$1,912–$4,600	$74.68
100 acres	$3,920	$2,509–$6,037	$39.20
250 acres	$5,144	$3,292–$7,922	$20.58
500 acres	$6,318	$3,343–$10,380	$12.64
1,000 acres	$7,760	$3,394–$13,601	$7.76
2,500 acres	$10,184	$3,463–$19,442	$4.07

The market

Hunting Wyoming

Half of Wyoming is public hunting land, and nonresident access is governed by a draw and by wilderness guide requirements rather than by who owns the ground. Private leases concentrate on river-bottom whitetail and on ranches that hold elk or antelope in huntable numbers. Our Wyoming estimate rests on a thin local sample.

Nationally, Wyoming has among the most public hunting ground in the country — ranking 6 of 50 states at 50.5% public, and very few whitetails per square mile at 0.2 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Elk
Mule deer
Pronghorn
Whitetail deer

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	50.5% of the state 31,403,000 acres · 6 of 50
Bucks harvested	21,799 0.2 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Elk, Mule deer, Pronghorn, Whitetail deer

Within the state

Where Wyoming prices differ

The $18.10 per-acre figure above is a Wyoming 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.
Eastern plains and Black Hills edge	Whitetail bottoms and pronghorn country, the conventional lease market.
Bighorn and mountain ranges	Elk ground, largely public, with nonresidents needing a guide in wilderness areas.
Green River and southwest	Big open country leased cheaply, valued mainly for antelope.

Your property

Price your own Wyoming 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 Wyoming lease price

Nearby markets

How Wyoming compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Wyoming.
State	Per acre	vs. Wyoming
Kentucky	$18.01	lower
Oklahoma	$18.14	higher
Iowa	$18.30	higher
Illinois	$18.49	higher

Methodology

How we estimate Wyoming 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. 6 of those listings were in Wyoming, so the Wyoming rate is pulled most of the way back toward the national median, which is what the model does when a state cannot support its own estimate.

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.