{"product_id":"2025-wyoming-hunt-map-antelope-area-86-hoback-map-the-xperience-map","title":"2025 Wyoming Hunt Map – Antelope Area 86 (Hoback)","description":"2025 Wyoming Hunt Map – Antelope Area 86 (Hoback) (Avenza GPS Map)\r\n\r\nOur mission was simple—create highly detailed, GPS-accurate maps for Wyoming’s Antelope Hunt Areas. Each map includes 3D hillshade, contour lines, public and private land boundaries, major roads only, hydrology, and essential terrain features. Lose yourself in Wyoming’s wide-open antelope country—yet NEVER GET LOST.\r\n\r\nWyoming Antelope Area 86, known as Hoback, is located in western Wyoming within Sublette and Teton Counties, south of Jackson and extending along the Hoback River corridor. This unit sits in a true transition zone between basin country and mountain foothills, where open sagebrush flats give way to rolling benches, timbered edges, shallow drainages, and broken foothill terrain. Compared to lower-elevation desert units, Area 86 features more varied terrain, higher elevations, and increased vegetation, creating distinct movement patterns for pronghorn.\r\n\r\nPronghorn in Area 86 commonly bed on open benches, gentle ridges, and elevated flats where visibility remains high. During warmer parts of the day, antelope often move into shallow draws, basin edges, north-facing slopes, and terrain folds near the Hoback River and its tributaries for shade, water, and wind protection. Morning and evening movement is frequent across sagebrush flats, grassy benches, and open parks, particularly along natural travel corridors shaped by terrain, fencing, and riparian zones.\r\n\r\nHunting Area 86 favors long-range glassing combined with deliberate spot-and-stalk tactics. Hunters often glass from low ridgelines, elevated benches, and foothill vantage points overlooking open parks and basin edges. Successful stalks rely on using rolling terrain, shallow cuts, drainage corridors, fence lines, and subtle elevation changes to stay concealed. Wind direction is a constant factor in this foothill environment, and patience is key when closing distance in mixed open and broken terrain. Ambush opportunities may exist near water developments, springs, fence crossings, and terrain funnels created by drainages and foothill transitions.\r\n\r\nLand ownership in Area 86 is a mix of public land, State Trust parcels, and private holdings, with boundary patterns that can be complex near river bottoms and foothills. Public access is generally good, but careful attention to land ownership and access routes is critical. Our map clearly displays all land ownership, access routes, hydrology, and terrain features needed to navigate confidently and legally across the unit.\r\n\r\nHunters rely on our maps because they provide precise, GPS-accurate tracking in the Avenza app—even without cell service—critical in this basin-to-foothill landscape where terrain complexity and distances can be deceptive. The 3D hillshade layer highlights basin edges, benches, shallow draws, ridgelines, and elevation changes, helping hunters better interpret pronghorn movement and plan efficient glassing and stalk strategies. The clean, uncluttered layout delivers all essential details for marking glassing locations, access points, water sources, stalk routes, and harvest sites.\r\n\r\nFor best field performance, download your map before entering the unit, place your device in airplane mode to conserve battery life, and carry a backup power source. Pre-marking access points, property boundaries, glassing knobs, water sources, and likely travel routes will greatly improve efficiency and success while hunting the Hoback antelope unit.","brand":"Map the Xperience","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45871266201756,"sku":"1728420","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7850\/5884\/files\/map-the-xperience-2025-wyoming-hunt-map-antelope-area-86-hoback-map-1728420-preview-0.jpg?v=1767103436","url":"https:\/\/store.avenza.com\/products\/2025-wyoming-hunt-map-antelope-area-86-hoback-map-the-xperience-map","provider":"Avenza Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}