Bordering Montana in northwest Wyoming, this area has some great trophy potential. Hunters can have a few good chances and some long season dates to hunt big bulls in this unit. No designated wilderness here, which is good for nonresident hunters. Located northeast of Cody, this unit offers a lot country to choose from.

There are some access issues, but hunters who are hiking, backpacking or hunting with horses can access good country here. Tough draw odds in this unit. Bowhunting can be good at upper elevations. Rugged terrain, but no designated wilderness.

Some of the terrain has a lot of flat top mountains and plateaus with steep rugged canyons. Northern parts of the unit are typically more rugged with deep canyon country and high mountain plateaus and peaks. Open hillsides and meadows with pine-dominated canyons are common throughout the whole unit, while the eastern half has lower elevation and is mainly covered in sagebrush, rolling hills and grasslands.

Wyoming Elk Unit 65 spans from Cody to Greybull, with U.S. Highway 14/16/20 forming the primary southern access route. From this highway, a network of county and state roads branches north into the unit’s interior. In the southern portion, Alternate U.S. 14 and Highway 789 provide access along the eastern and western flanks. Further access into both the northern and southern halves of the unit is available via State Highways 32, 294, and 295, which cut through central portions of the area. While private land is common along the Shoshone River corridor, hunters will find more extensive public land holdings to the north and south of this area.

Creeks here have a lot of different kinds of vegetation with willows, shrubs, grasses, forbs and timber pockets. In higher elevations, the vegetation is grassy with open slopes and heavily- timbered pine forests. Hunters can find a lot of wheatgrass and bluegrass here, with pockets of lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, Douglas fir and whitebark pine. In the higher elevations, there are a lot of meadow grasses, forbs and sedges. There are some rocky areas above the timberline, but becomes less rugged and easier through the south part of the unit.

Cody is 25 miles southeast on the southern end of the unit, and has several hotels, campgrounds, gas stations, markets, restaurants and bars.