About

I hunt public land in Texas, usually with Týr, my Drahthaar — which is why this site records whether a tract allows dogs at all.

Finding somewhere to go meant a printed booklet for the permit areas, a separate Outdoor Annual for the seasons, and a map sheet for each individual unit. Three sources that don't cross-reference one another, and not one of them tells you, on a single page, what you can hunt at one particular place.

Wild Access is that page. One property, everything published about it: where it is, what you can hunt there, when the season runs, what the bag limit is, which weapons are legal, and what the unit map tells you to do when you arrive.

209 properties across 142 Texas counties — wildlife management areas, state parks, national wildlife refuges, Corps of Engineers land, and the private tracts TPWD leases for the Annual Public Hunting permit. 102 species, each with what it looks like, how it behaves, and where you can hunt it.

If you are new to public land: most of Texas is private, and most people assume public hunting means a drawn hunt they probably won't get. A great deal of it isn't. Walk-on hunting under the Annual Public Hunting permit needs no draw at all — you buy the permit, you register at the gate, you hunt.

If you already know the system, the site is built for the narrow question: this property, this species, this weekend — what are the actual rules?

Everything here is compiled from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department publications — the Annual Public Hunting booklet and its unit maps, the Outdoor Annual, and TPWD's own property pages. Every page is read against the source rather than scraped.

Where two TPWD sources disagree — and they do, on acreage and occasionally on dates — the property's page says so, rather than quietly picking one.

It is a reference, not permission to hunt, and not legal advice. Seasons and bag limits change, sometimes mid-season, and the current TPWD publications always control. Verify your hunt against them before you go. Licenses, permits, stamps, landowner permission and safe firearm handling remain yours.

Wild Access is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department or any government agency.

Wild Access is operated by Wild Access LLC, a veteran-owned Texas limited liability company.

Found something wrong — a season date, a bag limit, a boundary? Tell us: info@thewildaccess.com. Regulations change and printed sources disagree with each other more often than you'd think; we want to know within the day.