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Unit 10 (Lolo Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail, Moose

Unit 10 lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties and covers about 1,184 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,722 to 7,907 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 8%. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Elk Hunting in Unit 10

Where to Find Elk in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 10 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties. It runs to about 1,184 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game runs its general elk seasons by elk management zone rather than unit by unit, and puts unit 10 in the Lolo Zone, so the zone's tag rules are the ones that apply here.

The lines of the unit: Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir and Clearwater River

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 10 in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties on a line that runs along Forest Service Road 500 and Forest Service Road 104, and past Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir, Clearwater River and Williams Peak, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Rhodes Peak, Williams Range and Kellys Finger

Named high points inside the unit include Rhodes Peak at 7,907 feet, Williams Range at 7,629 feet, Kellys Finger at 7,419 feet, Blacklead Mountain at 7,316 feet and Bitterroot Range at 7,118 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Beaver Dam Saddle, Little Cabin Meadows and Beaver Saddle

Below them sit Beaver Dam Saddle at 5,299 feet, Little Cabin Meadows at 5,147 feet, Beaver Saddle at 5,124 feet, Sylvan Saddle at 4,981 feet and Sherman Saddle at 4,740 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 119 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes and 36 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. Named ground inside unit 10 runs from 2,722 feet to 7,907 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit 10 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,047–6,380 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,667 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,183.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

36 tanks
119 stream segments
11 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rhodes Peak (7,907 ft), Williams Range (7,629 ft), Kellys Finger (7,419 ft), Blacklead Mountain (7,316 ft)

Holding ground: Crater Meadows (5,966 ft), Soldier Meadows (5,682 ft), 12 Mile Saddle (5,562 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Elk in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 10 at 8% across all manners of take. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Lunde Ridge, East Sister and Deer Ridge

Take a position on one of Lunde Ridge (7,057 ft), East Sister (6,997 ft), Deer Ridge (6,905 ft) and Moose Mountains (6,884 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 119 mapped stream reaches and 36 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 73/37°F, Oct 57/30°F and Nov 42/25°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.4 in. in Sep, 2.9 in. in Oct and 4.3 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: FR 500 and NFSR 581

FR 500, FR 700 and FR 103 need clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. There are roughly 10 miles of genuine four-wheel-drive road in the unit, and the country past the end of them is the part worth your legs.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rhodes Peak, Williams Range, Kellys Finger and Blacklead Mountain as places to see from, and Crater Meadows, Soldier Meadows, 12 Mile Saddle and NF 250 @ unit boundary as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

1,184 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Pierce, about 31 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,185 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

Getting in and staying out: unit 10

Named routes and what they need

FR 500 — 20.1 mi · High-clearance
NFSR 581 — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 700 — 15 mi · High-clearance
Lolo Trail — 13.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NFSR 715 — 12.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 103 — 10.5 mi · High-clearance

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Pierce — 30.8 mi · no services listed
Superior — 36.4 mi · no services listed
Saint Regis — 40.5 mi · groceries, lodging
Weippe — 40.7 mi · no services listed
Alberton — 41.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Noe Creek Campground
Hidden Creek Campground
Unnamed camp site
Kelly Forks Campground · reservable
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan35° / 19° · 4.1" precip
Aug83° / 44° · 1" precip
Sep73° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Oct57° / 30° · 2.9" precip
Nov42° / 25° · 4.3" precip
Dec33° / 20° · 4.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 10 at 8% — 37 animals taken by 472 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Elk Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing elk hunt we can tie to unit 10. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 10

Unit 10 lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties and covers about 1,184 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,722 to 7,907 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 20%. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 10 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties. It runs to about 1,184 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 10, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live.

The lines of the unit: Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir and Clearwater River

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 10 in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties on a line that runs along Forest Service Road 500 and Forest Service Road 104, and past Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir, Clearwater River and Williams Peak, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Pot Mountain, Rock Garden and Black Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Pot Mountain at 7,088 feet, Rock Garden at 7,061 feet, Black Mountain at 7,060 feet, Lunde Ridge at 7,057 feet and East Sister at 6,997 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: East Saddle, Morris Saddle and Sailor Gulch

Below them sit East Saddle at 4,613 feet, Morris Saddle at 4,446 feet, Sailor Gulch at 4,172 feet, Pioneer Gulch at 3,975 feet and Finns Saddle at 3,945 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 119 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes and 36 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Unit 10 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,047–6,380 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,667 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,183.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

36 tanks
119 stream segments
11 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rhodes Peak (7,907 ft), Williams Range (7,629 ft), Kellys Finger (7,419 ft), Blacklead Mountain (7,316 ft)

Holding ground: Crater Meadows (5,966 ft), Soldier Meadows (5,682 ft), 12 Mile Saddle (5,562 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put deer success in unit 10 at 20% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Moose Creek Buttes, Lookout Peak and Crag Peak

Take a position on one of Moose Creek Buttes (6,884 ft), Lookout Peak (6,872 ft), Crag Peak (6,868 ft) and The Nub (6,834 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: FR 500 and NFSR 581

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

1,184 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Pierce, about 31 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,185 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit 10

Named routes and what they need

FR 500 — 20.1 mi · High-clearance
NFSR 581 — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 700 — 15 mi · High-clearance
Lolo Trail — 13.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NFSR 715 — 12.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 103 — 10.5 mi · High-clearance

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Pierce — 30.8 mi · no services listed
Superior — 36.4 mi · no services listed
Saint Regis — 40.5 mi · groceries, lodging
Weippe — 40.7 mi · no services listed
Alberton — 41.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Noe Creek Campground
Hidden Creek Campground
Unnamed camp site
Kelly Forks Campground · reservable
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan35° / 19° · 4.1" precip
Aug83° / 44° · 1" precip
Sep73° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Oct57° / 30° · 2.9" precip
Nov42° / 25° · 4.3" precip
Dec33° / 20° · 4.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 10 at 20% — 80 animals taken by 396 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it. The figure is IDFG's result for deer in the unit, not for mule deer alone.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing mule deer hunt we can tie to unit 10. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Whitetail Hunting in Unit 10

Unit 10 lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties and covers about 1,184 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,722 to 7,907 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 20%. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find White-Tailed Deer in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 10 and says nothing about where the white-tailed deer stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties. It runs to about 1,184 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up white-tailed deer hunting in unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 10, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live. It also publishes a white-tailed deer season page for the unit, which it does only where it offers white-tailed deer opportunity.

The lines of the unit: Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir and Clearwater River

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 10 in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties on a line that runs along Forest Service Road 500 and Forest Service Road 104, and past Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir, Clearwater River and Williams Peak, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Deer Ridge, Moose Mountains and Moose Creek Buttes

Named high points inside the unit include Deer Ridge at 6,905 feet, Moose Mountains at 6,884 feet, Moose Creek Buttes at 6,884 feet, Lookout Peak at 6,872 feet and Crag Peak at 6,868 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. White-tailed deer hold to cover — river bottoms, brushy draws and timber edges — and rarely stray far from it.

Holding ground: Vanderbilt Gulch, Dennis Saddle and Hanson Meadows

Below them sit Vanderbilt Gulch at 3,938 feet, Dennis Saddle at 3,728 feet, Hanson Meadows at 3,660 feet, Pony Flats at 3,592 feet and Never Again Flats at 3,543 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 119 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes and 36 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Unit 10 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,047–6,380 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,667 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,183.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

36 tanks
119 stream segments
11 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rhodes Peak (7,907 ft), Williams Range (7,629 ft), Kellys Finger (7,419 ft), Blacklead Mountain (7,316 ft)

Holding ground: Crater Meadows (5,966 ft), Soldier Meadows (5,682 ft), 12 Mile Saddle (5,562 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt White-Tailed Deer in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put deer success in unit 10 at 20% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: find the trails between bedding cover and feed, then sit downwind of them at first and last light.

Glassing from Heart Peak, Mallard Peak and Moccasin Peak

Take a position on one of Heart Peak (6,834 ft), Mallard Peak (6,817 ft), Moccasin Peak (6,748 ft) and Long Creek Ridge (6,728 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, November bucks travel and check doe groups in daylight, which is when a stand on a travel route pays.

Water against feed

There are 119 mapped stream reaches and 36 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: FR 500 and NFSR 581

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rhodes Peak, Williams Range, Kellys Finger and Blacklead Mountain as places to see from, and Crater Meadows, Soldier Meadows, 12 Mile Saddle and NF 250 @ unit boundary as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

1,184 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Pierce, about 31 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,185 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

Getting in and staying out: unit 10

Named routes and what they need

FR 500 — 20.1 mi · High-clearance
NFSR 581 — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 700 — 15 mi · High-clearance
Lolo Trail — 13.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NFSR 715 — 12.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 103 — 10.5 mi · High-clearance

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Pierce — 30.8 mi · no services listed
Superior — 36.4 mi · no services listed
Saint Regis — 40.5 mi · groceries, lodging
Weippe — 40.7 mi · no services listed
Alberton — 41.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Noe Creek Campground
Hidden Creek Campground
Unnamed camp site
Kelly Forks Campground · reservable
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan35° / 19° · 4.1" precip
Aug83° / 44° · 1" precip
Sep73° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Oct57° / 30° · 2.9" precip
Nov42° / 25° · 4.3" precip
Dec33° / 20° · 4.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Whitetail: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Whitetail Success Rates

Whitetail Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

Search Idaho Draw Odds

Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing white-tailed deer hunt we can tie to unit 10. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Moose Hunting in Unit 10

Unit 10 lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties and covers about 1,184 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,722 to 7,907 feet. Idaho Fish and Game publishes no per-unit Shiras moose success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 10 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its Shiras moose live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties. It runs to about 1,184 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and draws 6 hunt areas that reach into unit 10: 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-4, 10-5 and 10-6. Each is its own piece of ground with its own tags, so the tag you draw decides which part of the unit you hunt.

The lines of the unit: Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir and Clearwater River

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 10 in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties on a line that runs along Forest Service Road 500 and Forest Service Road 104, and past Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir, Clearwater River and Williams Peak, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: The Nub, Heart Peak and Mallard Peak

Named high points inside the unit include The Nub at 6,834 feet, Heart Peak at 6,834 feet, Mallard Peak at 6,817 feet, Moccasin Peak at 6,748 feet and Long Creek Ridge at 6,728 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.

Holding ground: Deception Gulch, Black Canyon and Niagara Gulch

Below them sit Deception Gulch at 3,474 feet, Black Canyon at 2,722 feet, Niagara Gulch, Crater Meadows at 5,966 feet and Soldier Meadows at 5,682 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 119 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes and 36 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Unit 10 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,047–6,380 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,667 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,183.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

36 tanks
119 stream segments
11 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rhodes Peak (7,907 ft), Williams Range (7,629 ft), Kellys Finger (7,419 ft), Blacklead Mountain (7,316 ft)

Holding ground: Crater Meadows (5,966 ft), Soldier Meadows (5,682 ft), 12 Mile Saddle (5,562 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Shiras Moose in Unit 10

Idaho Fish and Game publishes no Shiras moose success figure for unit 10 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Applying for a unit 10 tag

Idaho Fish and Game takes moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat applications together, and anyone who applies for one of the three may not apply for another big game controlled hunt in the same year's first drawing, apart from the unlimited, extra, black bear and depredation hunts IDFG names. A hunter drawn for moose may not apply for a moose tag again for two years except for leftovers, and IDFG allows one antlered and one antlerless moose per hunter in a lifetime. Two hunters may apply together on one application. Idaho's draw is random, with no preference or bonus points to build.

Glassing from West Sister, Pot Mountain Ridge and Cold Springs Peak

Take a position on one of West Sister (6,728 ft), Pot Mountain Ridge (6,725 ft), Cold Springs Peak (6,725 ft) and Avalanche Ridge (6,723 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Water against feed

There are 119 mapped stream reaches and 36 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: FR 500 and NFSR 581

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rhodes Peak, Williams Range, Kellys Finger and Blacklead Mountain as places to see from, and Crater Meadows, Soldier Meadows, 12 Mile Saddle and NF 250 @ unit boundary as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

Getting in and staying out: unit 10

Named routes and what they need

FR 500 — 20.1 mi · High-clearance
NFSR 581 — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 700 — 15 mi · High-clearance
Lolo Trail — 13.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NFSR 715 — 12.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 103 — 10.5 mi · High-clearance

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Pierce — 30.8 mi · no services listed
Superior — 36.4 mi · no services listed
Saint Regis — 40.5 mi · groceries, lodging
Weippe — 40.7 mi · no services listed
Alberton — 41.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Noe Creek Campground
Hidden Creek Campground
Unnamed camp site
Kelly Forks Campground · reservable
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan35° / 19° · 4.1" precip
Aug83° / 44° · 1" precip
Sep73° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Oct57° / 30° · 2.9" precip
Nov42° / 25° · 4.3" precip
Dec33° / 20° · 4.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 general-hunt harvest statistics carry no Shiras moose success figure for unit 10 with a hunter count behind it, so we leave the number out rather than print one we cannot read back to this unit. Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner is the place to check before you apply.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	4	7	57.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	6	0.0%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing Shiras moose hunt we can tie to unit 10. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

15 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Noe Creek Campground, Hidden Creek Campground and Kelly Forks Campground.

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Road Conditions

FR 500, NFSR 581 and FR 700 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 5 mi paved, 107 mi gravel and 10 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features from 2,722 to 7,907 ft. More than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 73/37°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 57/30°F, 2.9 in.; Nov 42/25°F, 4.3 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 26%, AT&T 17%, T-Mobile 9% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Pierce (31 mi), Superior (36 mi), Saint Regis (41 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 10?

Unit 10 lies in Clearwater, Idaho and Shoshone counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 10 on a line that runs along Forest Service Road 500 and Forest Service Road 104, and past Little North Fork, Dworshak Reservoir, Clearwater River and Williams Peak, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It covers about 1,184 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 10?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 10 at 8% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 10 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 10 are at Pierce, about 31 miles from the unit's centre, with Superior at about 36 miles. There are also 15 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 10?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 10 at 20% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the white-tailed deer success rate in unit 10?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 10 at 20% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 10?

Idaho Fish and Game publishes no Shiras moose success figure we can tie to unit 10 on its own — the 2025 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Game management unit boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG Lolo Zone elk tag limits — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for elk in unit 10 · accessed 2026-10-19
IDFG Hunt Planner — controlled hunt drawing odds — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Applicants, tags and percent drawn by hunt, year and residency · accessed 2026-06-09
IDFG GameManagementUnits and ControlledHunts_All feature services — game management units and every species' controlled-hunt areas — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Mapped extent of the unit or hunt area, Which named ground falls inside its line · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG general deer season page for unit 10 — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG white-tailed deer season page for unit 10 — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
Moose, Bighorn Sheep & Mountain Goat 2025 & 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Controlled hunt application periods and eligibility rules · accessed 2026-10-24