Advice given thus far is spot on but to answer your main question about any zones having distinct advantages? I do not believe so. The hilly country south of town may have better glossing spots but that isn't really an issue north of the Rock Springs area either. The checkerboard can be intimidating, but as of right now the bigger landowners such as Rock Springs Grazing Association allow access. That can't be said so confidentally further east towards Rawlins, and even less the further east you go.
The Aspen Mountain area never did produce many 'big' bucks all the years I lived in the Rock, for what that is worth. Bitter Creek just to the east did, as did the Red Desert.
I have been told by locals that more antelope survived the '22-'23 winter than a lot of reports indicate, but the pop did go down for sure. Take all that for what you paid for it.
