Wyoming Access Yes Program (Walk-In and Hunter Management Areas)

Wyoming Game and Fish pays private landowners who open their land or water to public hunting or fishing through Access Yes. Landowners enroll in one or more of three options: Hunter Management Areas (hunters need a permission slip), Walk-In Hunting Areas, or Walk-In Fishing Areas. Payment is based on enrolled acres or stream miles, and landowners decide which species, dates and areas are open.

• Private landowners (and state land lessees) in Wyoming willing to allow public hunting and/or fishing access

• Landowner and Department agree on species, areas, dates and rules

Agreement length of one or five years; compensation based on enrolled acreage or stream mileage; Department posts property, manages hunters/anglers and enforces rules; state liability protections apply.

Published amounts: Financial compensation based on enrolled acreage or stream mileage (rates not published). In 2025, Access Yes paid $1,323,734 to landowners.

Contact the Public Access (Access Yes) Coordinator for your region; landowners and Department staff work together to develop an access agreement.

Deadline text on the page: No enrollment deadline published; agreements are one or five years. 'Updated Hunter Management Area and Walk-In Hunting Area information will be available in July.'