Honey Creek Wildlife Area hunting notes

Zone lines at Honey Creek Wildlife Area

Deer rules follow the Southern Farmland zone and Racine and Walworth. For 2026 the antlerless quota stands at 500 and 1,900. In Bear Zone F the DNR drew 764 permits for a target of 50 bears; drawn hunters needed 1 point. Turkey Zone 2: 51,056 spring authorizations in 2025 and 22% hunter success. Racine and Walworth counties are on the CWD list: a positive wild deer has been found. Deer may not be baited or fed in Racine and Walworth counties.

Honey Creek Wildlife Area deer management units

Tag counts change daily as hunters buy them; these are the Oct. 19, 2026 figures.

Bear, turkey, grouse and waterfowl lines through Honey Creek Wildlife Area

Zones from the DNR zone layers as recorded in lands.json; quotas and bonus tags from the 2026 antlerless quota table; bear figures from the 2026 bear drawing summary and 2025 bear harvest; turkey from the 2025 spring turkey report; CWD and baiting lists from the DNR. Checked October 19, 2026.

Honey Creek Wildlife Area: the game on record

The source names whitetails, wild turkeys, ducks and geese, pheasants, mourning doves, squirrels, cottontails and hares and raccoons, foxes and coyotes for Honey Creek Wildlife Area.

Every other open season that reaches Racine County applies too, within the property rules.

Species from the property record (species named by the source); bag limits from the DNR regulations. Checked October 19, 2026.

The land at Honey Creek Wildlife Area

This is the agency description, quoted.

The hunting sentence for Honey Creek Wildlife Area

• The oak woodland areas provide a good source of mast (i.e., acorns, hickory nuts, etc.) a valued food for a variety of wildlife including game species (i.e., White-tailed deer, Wood Ducks, turkeys, and squirrels) and offer potentially good hunting opportunities.
• The wildlife area is managed to provide opportunities for public hunting, fishing, trapping and other outdoor recreation while protecting the qualities of the unique native communities and associated species found on the property.
• Hunting (noted for: deer, waterfowl, turkey, dove, pheasant and small game)

Quoted from the property page, retrieved 2026-10-19; checked October 19, 2026.

Deer, bears and CWD around Honey Creek Wildlife Area

Last full season (2025) the Racine County unit gave up 768 deer. Since 2016 the yearly total has ranged from 457 (2017) to 768 (2025). So far in 2026 (preliminary, Oct. 19): Racine 54 deer and Walworth 213 deer. In CWD year 2025, 39 Racine County deer were tested and 6 came back positive. Since 1999: 1,565 sampled, 12 positive. Property-level harvest does not exist for Honey Creek Wildlife Area; county numbers stand in.

Deer from DNR Deer Metrics harvest history and the 2026 harvest to date; CWD from the DNR CWD summary; bears from the DNR bear harvest reports. Checked October 19, 2026.

The closest public land to Honey Creek Wildlife Area

Honey Creek Wildlife Area is the large pin, with 10 neighbours around it. Their acreage adds up to 3,247.

Points from the DNR managed lands, SNA, county forest, FWS realty, USFS, NPS and DoD layers (WI DNR Managed Lands GIS (polygon centroid of hunting-open parcels) (point inside polygon (centroid falls outside))). Straight-line distances. Statewide public land map.

If Honey Creek Wildlife Area is crowded, the next four

Honey Creek Wildlife Area: confirm on the ground

A last look before the drive: the Honey Creek Wildlife Area map, your Go Wild licenses and any posted closures.

Sources for this page: DNR: HoneyCreek · DNR GIS · DNR: alpha · DNR GIS · DNR: honeycreekstreambank; regulations from the Fall 2026-Spring 2027 Wisconsin hunting regulations. Checked October 19, 2026.