Georgia WMAs: every wildlife management area with 2026-27 seasons and deer harvest
These 110 wildlife management areas cover 1,068,554 acres, by WRD's own acreage. The largest is Cohutta WMA at 96,583 acres. The most deer reported in 2025-26 were on Redlands WMA (425), Mayhaw WMA (239) and Allatoona WMA (197). 44 of them had quota hunts in WRD's 2026 lottery.
Data updated October 2026. Seasons: WRD's 2026-27 WMA listings. Harvest: WRD Game Check by WMA to 2025-26.
Which WMAs are in Georgia?
| WMA | Acres | Counties | WRD region | Deer reported, 2025-26 | Quota hunts, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alapaha River WMA | 6,870 | Irwin | 4 | 96 | |
| Albany Nursery WMA | 300 | Dougherty | 5 | 9 | |
| Alexander WMA | 1,300 | Burke | 3 | 37 | |
| Allatoona WMA | 7,589 | Bartow and Cherokee | 1 | 197 | |
| Alligator Creek WMA | 3,086 | Wheeler | 4 | 23 | |
| Altama Plantation WMA | 4,612 | Glynn | 6 | 13 | 2 |
| Altamaha WMA | 31,569 | McIntosh | 6 | 21 | 20 |
| Arrowhead WMA | 337 | Floyd | 1 | 1 | |
| B.F. Grant WMA | 11,400 | Putnam and Morgan | 3 | 47 | 5 |
| Bartram Forest WMA | 1,343 | Baldwin | 3 | 17 | |
| Beaverdam WMA | 5,500 | Laurens and Wilkinson | 4 | 37 | |
| Berry College WMA | 15,605 | Floyd | 1 | 19 | 2 |
| Big Dukes Pond WMA | 1,692 | Jenkins | 4 | 32 | |
| Big Hammock WMA | 7,315 | Tattnall | 4 | 29 | |
| Big Lazer Creek WMA | 7,200 | Talbot and Upson | 5 | 51 | 2 |
| Blanton Creek WMA | 4,800 | Harris | 5 | 28 | 4 |
| Blue Ridge WMA | 20,900 | Fannin, Union, Lumpkin and Gilmer | 2 | 38 | |
| Broad River WMA | 440 | Madison | 2 | 12 | |
| Bullard Creek WMA | 15,636 | Jeff Davis, Appling, Montgomery and Toombs | 4 | 107 | 1 |
| Canoochee Sandhills WMA | 10,224 | Bulloch and Bryan | 4 | 29 | |
| Carters Lake WMA | 3,300 | Gilmer, Murray and Gordon | 1 | 44 | 1 |
| Cedar Creek WMA | 41,000 | Putnam, Jones and Jasper | 3 | 107 | 1 |
| Ceylon WMA | 16,000 | Camden | 6 | 56 | 6 |
| Chattahoochee Fall Line WMA | 20,675 | Marion, Talbot, Muscogee and Chattahoochee | 5 | 119 | 4 |
| Chattahoochee WMA | 25,150 | White, Union and Towns | 2 | 17 | 4 |
| Chestatee WMA | 27,123 | Lumpkin, White and Union | 2 | 6 | |
| Chickasawhatchee WMA | 19,700 | Dougherty, Calhoun and Baker | 5 | 168 | 6 |
| Clarks Hill WMA | 13,291 | McDuffie, Wilkes, Lincoln and Warren | 3 | 159 | |
| Clayhole Swamp WMA | 5,242 | Glynn | 6 | 9 | |
| Clybel WMA | 6,700 | Jasper and Newton | 3 | 40 | 4 |
| Cochrans Creek WMA | 2,057 | Dawson | 2 | 1 | |
| Cohutta WMA | 96,583 | Murray, Fannin and Gilmer | 1 | 4 | |
| Conasauga River WMA | 509 | Murray and Whitfield | 1 | 18 | 3 |
| Coopers Creek WMA | 30,000 | Union and Fannin | 2 | 9 | |
| Coosawattee WMA | 2,714 | Murray | 1 | 110 | 1 |
| Crockford-Pigeon Mountain WMA | 21,895 | Walker | 1 | 81 | 1 |
| Dawson Forest WMA | 25,658 | Dawson, Gilmer and Pickens | 2 | 33 | 3 |
| Di-Lane WMA | 8,100 | Burke | 3 | 22 | 4 |
| Dixon Bay WMA | 300 | Screven | 4 | 2 | |
| Dixon Memorial WMA | 35,247 | Ware and Brantley | 6 | 60 | |
| Doerun Pitcher Plant Bog WMA | 730 | Colquitt | 5 | 33 | |
| Echeconnee Creek WMA | 750 | Bibb and Houston | 3 | 2 | |
| Elbert County WMA | 2,500 | Elbert | 2 | 32 | |
| Elmodel WMA | 1,600 | Baker | 5 | 30 | |
| Featherfield WMA | 875 | Seminole | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| Fishing Creek WMA | 2,900 | Wilkes and Lincoln | 3 | 18 | |
| Flat Tub WMA | 8,748 | Jeff Davis, Coffee and Telfair | 4 | 170 | |
| Flint River WMA | 2,400 | Dooly | 5 | 75 | 2 |
| Gaither WMA | 2,129 | Newton | 3 | 25 | 6 |
| Germany Creek WMA | 1,200 | McDuffie | 3 | 21 | |
| Grand Bay WMA | 8,700 | Lanier and Lowndes | 6 | 35 | |
| Griffin Ridge WMA | 5,975 | Long | 6 | 24 | 2 |
| Hannahatchee WMA | 5,600 | Stewart | 5 | 93 | |
| Hart County WMA | 1,000 | Hart | 2 | 40 | 2 |
| Hiltonia WMA | 500 | Screven | 4 | 2 | |
| Horse Creek WMA | 7,397 | Telfair | 4 | 69 | |
| J.L. Lester WMA | 477 | Polk | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Joe Kurz WMA | 3,700 | Meriwether | 1 | 31 | 4 |
| Johns Mountain WMA | 23,710 | Gordon, Walker, Floyd and Whitfield | 1 | 19 | |
| Keg Creek WMA | 800 | Columbia | 3 | 9 | |
| Lake Russell WMA | 17,300 | Stephens, Habersham and Banks | 2 | 11 | |
| Lake Seminole WMA | 8,300 | Decatur and Seminole | 5 | 67 | |
| Lake Walter F. George WMA | 1,100 | Clay and Quitman | 5 | 13 | |
| Lanahassee WMA | 4,440 | Webster | 5 | 61 | 2 |
| Little River WMA | 1,475 | Putnam | 3 | ||
| Little Satilla WMA | 16,990 | Wayne, Pierce and Brantley | 6 | 119 | |
| Lower Broad River WMA | 1,500 | Wilkes, Elbert and Lincoln | 3 | 23 | |
| Mayhaw WMA | 6,300 | Miller | 5 | 239 | |
| McGraw Ford WMA | 2,067 | Cherokee | 1 | 38 | 1 |
| Mead Farm WMA | 200 | Burke | 3 | 2 | |
| Montezuma Bluffs WMA | 500 | Macon | 5 | 6 | |
| Moody Forest WMA | 4,675 | Appling | 4 | 63 | |
| Morgan Lake WMA | 1,493 | Long and Wayne | 6 | ||
| Oaky Woods WMA | 13,450 | Houston and Pulaski | 3 | 45 | 1 |
| Ocmulgee WMA | 15,000 | Bleckley, Pulaski and Twiggs | 4 | 52 | 1 |
| Oconee WMA | 7,400 | Greene, Hancock and Putnam | 3 | 153 | 18 |
| Ohoopee Dunes WMA | 9,271 | Emanuel | 4 | 28 | 1 |
| Oliver Bridge WMA | 1,560 | Bulloch | 4 | 19 | |
| Otting Tract WMA | 700 | Chattooga | 1 | 8 | |
| Paulding Forest WMA | 28,183 | Paulding and Polk | 1 | 106 | 2 |
| Paulks Pasture WMA | 16,066 | Glynn | 6 | 17 | |
| Penholoway Swamp WMA | 11,177 | Wayne | 6 | 7 | |
| Phinizy Swamp WMA | 1,500 | Richmond | 3 | 1 | |
| Redlands WMA | 37,500 | Greene, Oglethorpe, Morgan and Oconee | 2 | 425 | |
| Rich Mountain WMA | 20,674 | Gilmer and Fannin | 1 | 39 | |
| Richmond Hill WMA | 7,400 | Bryan and McIntosh | 6 | 52 | |
| River Bend WMA | 3,670 | Laurens | 4 | 17 | 1 |
| River Creek the Rolf and Alexandra Kauka WMA | 2,437 | Thomas and Grady | 5 | 18 | 4 |
| Rogers WMA | 3,340 | Wayne | 6 | 12 | |
| Rum Creek WMA | 5,800 | Monroe | 3 | 41 | 4 |
| Sandhills WMA | 3,370 | Taylor | 5 | 19 | |
| Sansavilla WMA | 19,084 | Wayne and Glynn | 6 | 47 | |
| Sapelo Island WMA | 9,000 | McIntosh | 6 | 45 | 3 |
| Sheffield WMA | 5,556 | Paulding and Polk | 1 | 26 | 2 |
| Silver Lake WMA | 9,200 | Decatur | 5 | 84 | 3 |
| Soap Creek WMA | 1,000 | Lincoln | 3 | 12 | |
| Spirit Creek Forest WMA | 570 | Richmond | 3 | 9 | |
| Sprewell Bluff WMA | 7,901 | Meriwether, Talbot and Upson | 1 | 68 | |
| Swallow Creek WMA | 19,000 | Towns | 2 | 6 | |
| Tallapoosa River WMA | 5,215 | Haralson and Polk | 1 | 2 | |
| Tallulah Gorge WMA | 2,689 | Rabun and Habersham | 2 | ||
| Townsend WMA | 34,294 | Long and McIntosh | 6 | 46 | |
| Treat Mountain WMA | 7,260 | Haralson and Polk | 1 | 5 | |
| Tuckahoe WMA | 15,100 | Screven | 4 | 50 | |
| Walton WMA | 200 | Walton | 3 | 1 | |
| Warwoman WMA | 15,800 | Rabun | 2 | 2 | |
| West Point WMA | 8,952 | Heard and Troup | 1 | 30 | 7 |
| Wilson Shoals WMA | 2,800 | Banks | 2 | 50 | 3 |
| Yuchi WMA | 7,800 | Burke | 3 | 75 | 2 |
| Zahnd WMA | 1,642 | Walker | 1 | 9 |
Acres: WRD's pages and boundary layer. Harvest: WRD deer harvest reports (Georgia Game Check). Quota hunts: WRD quota hunt lottery reports, 2026. 4 more WRD areas are not listed yet because their data is too thin for a page of their own.
What are the rules on every Georgia WMA?
- Sign-in is required for every bear, deer and turkey hunt on a WMA unless the area's listing says otherwise. Hunters sign in once for each hunt or season, online at GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com, from the day before the hunt (page 20).
- Deer killed on a bonus hunt do not count against the season limit and are not reported through Game Check: they go to the area's check station on the day of the kill (page 20).
- No more than one gobbler a season may be taken on a single WMA or on national forest land outside WMAs (page 20).
- Coyote season is May 16 to 31 on WMAs, and coyotes may be taken any time a WMA is open to hunting, with the weapons legal for that hunt (page 20).
- Man-drives of three or more hunters are not allowed during deer hunts on WMAs (page 21).
Source: 2026-2027 Georgia Hunting and Fishing Regulations, pages 19 to 21. Sign in: GoOutdoorsGeorgia WMA sign-in.
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Sources: WRD WMA hunting opportunities, 2026-27 season (FY27); WRD WMA boundaries; WRD deer harvest reports (Georgia Game Check); WRD quota hunt lottery reports, 2026. FilledTag is not part of Georgia DNR.