Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 5 (Billings)
District 586
Montana hunting district 586 (Antelope), FWP Region 5 (Billings): 732 sq mi in Wheatland, Meagher, Sweet Grass, Park counties; 25% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 5,482 ft; FWP estimated 322 antelope harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the busiest for antelope hunters of 60 antelope districts: 1.9 antelope hunter-days per square mile in 2024. FWP harvest estimates (calculated per sq mi)
- Among the most rugged of 61 antelope districts: 5,846 ft from low point to high point. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 16.0% | |
| Montana state trust land | 8.8% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 0.2% | |
| Other State of Montana | 0.1% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.1% |
Area of Montana State Library 'Montana Public Lands' polygons (derived from the Montana Cadastral Framework, Department of Revenue ownership records) intersected with the FWP district boundary, measured in NAD83(2011) Montana State Plane (EPSG:6514). Ownership is not access: some public land is closed to hunting or has no legal access.
Antelope harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Bucks | Does | Fawns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | n/e | n/e | 322 | 195 | 120 | 7 |
| 2024 | 392 | 1,393 | 306 | 203 | 97 | 7 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 267 | 205 | 59 | 3 |
| 2022 | 334 | 826 | 239 | 171 | 64 | 4 |
FWP estimates from the annual hunter harvest survey; they carry sampling error. "n/e": FWP did not estimate district-level hunter numbers that year (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025). Boundaries of a numbered district can change between years.
Landscape
- Counties
- Wheatland, Meagher, Sweet Grass, Park counties
- National forests
- Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- —
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- —
- Highest named summits
- Sunlight Peak (≈9,843 ft), Loco Mountain (≈9,196 ft), Lebo Peak (≈8,852 ft), Virginia Peak (≈8,540 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- None named in GNIS
- Towns and places
- Bill Bracket Place, Duncan Ranch Colony, Hamen, Higgins, Lebo, Martinsdale, Melville, Norwegian Settlement (historical), Staley Place, Twodot
Elevations sampled on a regular grid inside the district from AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium, zoom 10, ~105 m pixels; compiled from USGS 3DEP and SRTM). Approximate: summits read lower than their surveyed height.
Sources
- District boundary: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks hunting district layer.
- Public land: Montana State Library, Montana Public Lands (published 2026-10-06).
- Harvest: FWP Harvest Estimates, retrieved 2026-10-30.
- Places: USGS Geographic Names Information System. Wilderness and forests: USDA Forest Service.
- Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles (USGS 3DEP, SRTM).
Live weather, snow, fire and access conditions are in the atlas card for this district.