Unit 92

The South Rim and Hoback Rim provide key dividing lines and navigation reference points along the northern boundary. Within the unit, Strawberry Ridge, Aspen Ridge, and Beaver Ridge create natural travel corridors and glassing vantage points. Major drainages—Cottonwood Creek, Eagle Creek, and Chair Creek—provide water and serve as natural routes through the country.

Notable summits like Kismet Peak, Grindstone Butte, and Prospect Peak offer orientation. The populated areas around Daniel and the county road network give real-world reference points for staging and access.

The terrain ranges from mid-elevation sage basins around 6,800 feet to scattered timbered ridges above 11,000 feet, with most of the unit falling in the 7,000 to 9,000-foot band. Open sagebrush flats dominate the lower valleys—Noble Basin, Soap Hole Basin, and the meadows near Haines and Foster—providing early-season and late-season range. Scattered ponderosa and juniper cover the ridges and intermediate slopes, creating a patchwork of open parks and light timber.

The sparse forest cover means you move between big-view sagebrush country and timbered slopes with some shelter.

Nearly 500 miles of roads connect the unit, with Highway 191 forming the eastern boundary and Highway 351 providing southern access. County roads branch throughout the lower elevations toward Daniel and the surrounding drainages. This road density creates moderate accessibility—not remote, but not heavily roaded either.

The Daniel area and immediate vicinity see local pressure, but the larger basin and ridge country beyond has quieter sectors. The fair accessibility means mid-week hunting often finds fewer people than weekends, and moving north toward the Hoback country reduces pressure significantly.

Unit 92 encompasses the landscape between Highway 351 on the south and Highway 191 on the east, bounded by the Green River to the west and the Hoback River drainage to the north. The unit extends from Daniel Junction in the south through the rolling Sublette County terrain. The drainage divides—particularly the Hoback Rim and the Green River-Hoback watershed boundary—define the northern extent.

This is transition country where the higher ranges give way to more open, rolling terrain; the unit sits at the interface between the Wind River country and the Green River valley system.

The Green River forms the western boundary and provides reliable year-round water. Cottonwood Creek and its south forks are perennial drainages that cut through the unit's core, offering water throughout their length. Eagle Creek, Chair Creek, and Ole Creek provide additional drainage water in the northern sections.

Scattered springs—Greenwood Springs, Triplet Vents, Onion Springs—supplement water in the drier upland areas. Several small reservoirs (Raven, Ryegrass, Jewett Red Flat) exist but are generally associated with irrigation infrastructure. For hunting purposes, the combination of the main river and major creeks makes water availability fair across the unit.

Elk are the primary species in this unit, using the terrain in predictable seasonal patterns. Early season (August-September) finds elk higher on the timbered ridges and in the scattered timber parks, particularly around Aspen Ridge and the breaks above the main creeks. As fall progresses, elk move lower into the sage basins and open country, using Cottonwood Creek and Eagle Creek drainages as travel corridors.

Late season concentrates animals in the lower valleys and deeper creek bottoms for thermal cover. The combination of open country and scattered timber rewards glassing ridgelines in early season and working drainages later. Water access from the Green River and major creeks keeps elk in predictable zones; focus hunting pressure around perennial water sources and transition zones between sage and timber.