Kentucky Public Hunting Land Map

Every mapped area on one map

Pins sit at each area's KDFWR polygon centre (or a point inside the polygon when the centre falls outside), not at a parking lot. Use the entrance coordinates on each area page to navigate, and the KDFWR maps for boundaries.

What the map pins show

Most pins are KDFWR wildlife management areas, spread across all five regions. National forest districts and campground hunt areas overlap the forest itself, so some pins sit inside larger areas.

Kind	Pins	Hub
Wildlife management areas	102	Wildlife management areas
State parks	9	State parks and forests
Hunting access areas	5	Hunting access areas
State forests	5	State parks and forests
Ranger districts	4	National forests
National wildlife refuges	4	Wildlife refuges
Military installations	3	Federal lands
National forests	2	National forests
Campground hunt areas	2	National forests
Outdoor recreation areas	1	State parks and forests
Training areas	1	Federal lands
National recreation areas	1	Federal lands
National river and recreation areas	1	Federal lands

Hunting places not yet on the map

These records have no published coordinates yet, so they are not on the map:

Crow Creek WMA · New WMA opened Nov. 4, 2026: not yet in the KDFWR Public Hunting Areas layer, the quick reference charts or the Public Lands Search, so no boundary, coordinates or detail page.
Muddygut WMA · New WMA opened Nov. 4, 2026: not yet in the KDFWR Public Hunting Areas layer, the quick reference charts or the Public Lands Search, so no boundary, coordinates or detail page.
KDFWR Hunting Access Areas · 2026-27 guide, Public Lands Hunting: "The department also has agreements that allow public access to privately owned lands known as Hunting Access Areas." and "HUNTER ACCESS AREAS (HAAs) These areas are ac
Wolf Creek State Forest · State forest bought in 2026 and open to hunting per the Kentucky Division of Forestry quick guide, but not on any KDFWR list (no boundary, coordinates or KDFWR page).

Mapped areas by KDFWR region

Larger areas first, eight per region; the full lists are on the WMA and public land hubs.

Purchase Region

24 pins in all

Green River Region

18 pins in all

Bluegrass Region

21 pins in all

Northeast Region

25 pins in all

Southeast Region

52 pins in all

How much of each region has public land

92 of Kentucky's 120 counties hold at least part of a listed hunting area; the other 28 have none, so hunters there look across the county line. The table shows how the pins and covered counties spread over the five KDFWR wildlife regions. A big multi-county area such as the national forest counts once in every county it touches.