Whoopup Canyon is a DIY Turkey property south of Newcastle, WY. Consisting of around 4500 acres of private land, bordered by difficult to access BLM and forest service holdings. Whoopup Canyon provides opportunity for Elk moving down from the BLM foothills into the valley. Much of this area will have to be hiked. This area holds tremendous opportunity but it will be raw boot leather needed to get the job done.

Nestled right at the base of the Black Hills National Forest, Whoopup Canyon offers outstanding elk habitat across just over 570 acres of diverse terrain. The property sits in a classic transitional zone where the rolling mixed-grass prairie gives way to ponderosa pine stands, rugged draws, and creek-bottom cottonwoods and is exactly the kind of landscape that Rocky Mountain elk call home. Scattered oak brush and juniper thickets provide excellent bedding cover, while open meadow edges and agricultural flats give bulls and cows prime feeding ground throughout the fall season. Hunters can expect to find elk working their way off the timbered ridges at first and last light, filtering down through the canyon edges and draws onto the more open benches and grass flats to feed. The varied topography of Whoopup Canyon allows hunters to set up along travel corridors, canyon mouths, and meadow edges, giving you plenty of options to locate animals and adapt your approach as conditions change through the day