Idaho Pronghorn Elk

Unit 58 (Beaverhead Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Elk

Unit 58 lies in Butte, Clark, Jefferson and Lemhi counties and covers about 590 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,162 to 12,158 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 36%. Federal land covers about 92% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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5,289–10,285 ft

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 58

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 58

What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for unit 58 is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. 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 Butte, Clark, Jefferson and Lemhi counties. It runs to about 590 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up pronghorn hunting in unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game hunts pronghorn here only by controlled hunt, and describes its pronghorn hunt area 58 as all of Unit 58.

What bounds unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game describes unit 58 as those portions of Butte, Clark, Jefferson, and Lemhi counties within the Birch Creek drainage northwest of State Highway 22. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Diamond Peak, Eighteenmile Peak and Italian Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Diamond Peak at 12,158 feet, Eighteenmile Peak at 11,104 feet, Italian Peak at 10,961 feet, Trail Peak at 10,513 feet and Copper Mountain at 10,293 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn stay on the open rolling ground and leave the timber alone.

Holding ground: Left Fork Rocky Canyon, Montana Canyon and Ramsey Canyon

Below them sit Left Fork Rocky Canyon at 7,983 feet, Montana Canyon at 7,936 feet, Ramsey Canyon at 7,827 feet, South Fork Meadow Canyon at 7,725 feet and McCoy Canyon at 7,683 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: McCoy Spring, Breazeale Spring and Magpie Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 4 mapped stream reaches and 1 stock tanks. Named sources include McCoy Spring, Breazeale Spring, Magpie Spring, Keg Spring and Box Spring. 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 17%, BLM 15% 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 58 runs from 5,162 feet to 12,158 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit 58 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,289–10,285 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,232 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
590 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1 tanks
4 stream segments

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: Diamond Peak (12,158 ft), Eighteenmile Peak (11,104 ft), Italian Peak (10,961 ft), Trail Peak (10,513 ft)

Holding ground: Coons Canyon (8,419 ft), Horseshoe Gulch (8,103 ft), Right Fork Rocky Canyon (7,987 ft), McCoy Spring, Breazeale Spring

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 Pronghorn in Unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 58 at 36% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

The 2026 controlled hunts in unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 rules list one controlled hunt for pronghorn on unit 58 under its own number.

Hunt 4020 — either sex pronghorn, 50 tags, Sep 25–Oct 24. Motorized Hunting Rule Applies

Dates and tag numbers are IDFG's as printed for that season, and IDFG changes hunt areas between years, so check the current booklet before you apply.

Applying for a unit 58 tag

Idaho Fish and Game's first application period for deer, elk and pronghorn runs May 1 to June 5, with results in early July, and a second period runs August 5 to 15 for what is left. Anyone drawn for a limited pronghorn hunt in the first period must sit out the next year's first period for limited pronghorn hunts. Two to four hunters may apply together for the same hunt. Idaho's draw is random, with no preference or bonus points to build.

Glassing from Scott Butte, Lava Ridge and Richard Butte

Take a position on one of Scott Butte (6,159 ft), Lava Ridge (5,247 ft), Richard Butte (5,162 ft) and Diamond Peak (12,158 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. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 4 mapped stream reaches and 1 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

Season normals here run Sep 74/39°F, Oct 58/29°F and Nov 41/18°F. By Nov the lows are around 18°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 0.7 in. in Sep, 0.9 in. in Oct and 0.6 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: ID 28

ID 28 is the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 58

Named routes and what they need

ID 28 — 32.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)

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

Lima — 36.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Mackay — 37 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Moore — 37.1 mi · no services listed
Leadore — 38.5 mi · no services listed
Arco — 41.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Birch Creek Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 7° · 0.8" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 0.7" precip
Sep74° / 39° · 0.7" precip
Oct58° / 29° · 0.9" precip
Nov41° / 18° · 0.6" precip
Dec29° / 10° · 0.8" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 58 at 36% — 49 animals taken by 137 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.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	48	1,580	3.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	2	78	3.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (resident)	3	926	0.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	45	0.0%	—

Data from 2025 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 2025 first drawing for pronghorn in unit 58, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 4020 — residents 1,580 applicants for 48 tags, 3% drawn; nonresidents 78 applicants for 2 tags, 3% drawn

Idaho draws at random with no point system, so these are what that year happened to look like, not a requirement to build toward. Idaho Fish and Game reuses hunt numbers for different areas between years, so the figures are matched on the area each hunt had in 2025. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.

Elk Hunting in Unit 58

Unit 58 lies in Butte, Clark, Jefferson and Lemhi counties and covers about 590 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,162 to 12,158 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 92% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Elk in Unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 58 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Butte, Clark, Jefferson and Lemhi counties. It runs to about 590 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game runs its general elk seasons by elk management zone rather than unit by unit, and puts unit 58 in the Beaverhead Zone, so the zone's tag rules are the ones that apply here.

What bounds unit 58

High ground inside the line: Bald Mountain, Center Ridge and Mahogany Butte

Named high points inside the unit include Bald Mountain at 8,981 feet, Center Ridge at 7,577 feet, Mahogany Butte at 6,998 feet, Scott Butte at 6,159 feet and Lava Ridge at 5,247 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: Mammoth Canyon, Bell Mountain Canyon and Paint Canyon

Below them sit Mammoth Canyon at 7,455 feet, Bell Mountain Canyon at 7,440 feet, Paint Canyon at 7,437 feet, South Fork Worthing Canyon at 7,385 feet and Cliff Canyon at 7,373 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: McCoy Spring, Breazeale Spring and Magpie Spring

Reading the land status

Unit 58 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,289–10,285 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,232 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
590 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1 tanks
4 stream segments

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: Diamond Peak (12,158 ft), Eighteenmile Peak (11,104 ft), Italian Peak (10,961 ft), Trail Peak (10,513 ft)

Holding ground: Coons Canyon (8,419 ft), Horseshoe Gulch (8,103 ft), Right Fork Rocky Canyon (7,987 ft), McCoy Spring, Breazeale Spring

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 58

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 58 at 100% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

The 2026 controlled hunts in unit 58

Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 rules list one controlled hunt for elk on unit 58 under its own number.

Hunt 2094 — antlerless elk, 200 tags, Nov 1–Nov 30. Motorized Hunting Rule Applies

Dates and tag numbers are IDFG's as printed for that season, and IDFG changes hunt areas between years, so check the current booklet before you apply.

Applying for a unit 58 tag

Idaho Fish and Game's first application period for deer, elk and pronghorn runs May 1 to June 5, with results in early July, and a second period runs August 5 to 15 for what is left. A hunter drawn for a limited antlered-only elk hunt sits out the next year's first period for that kind of hunt; unlimited and extra hunts are exempt. Two to four hunters may apply together for the same hunt. Idaho's draw is random, with no preference or bonus points to build.

Glassing from Eighteenmile Peak, Italian Peak and Trail Peak

Take a position on one of Eighteenmile Peak (11,104 ft), Italian Peak (10,961 ft), Trail Peak (10,513 ft) and Copper Mountain (10,293 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. 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 4 mapped stream reaches and 1 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

Getting past the roads: ID 28

ID 28 is the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 58

Named routes and what they need

ID 28 — 32.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)

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

Lima — 36.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Mackay — 37 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Moore — 37.1 mi · no services listed
Leadore — 38.5 mi · no services listed
Arco — 41.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Birch Creek Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 7° · 0.8" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 0.7" precip
Sep74° / 39° · 0.7" precip
Oct58° / 29° · 0.9" precip
Nov41° / 18° · 0.6" precip
Dec29° / 10° · 0.8" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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

Rifle100%

Archery17%

Muzzleloader24%

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 58 at 100% — 4 animals taken by 4 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	187	340	55.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	13	17	76.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (resident)	12	126	10.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	3	0.0%	—

Open in Draw Odds Engine

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 first drawing for elk in unit 58, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 2094 — residents 340 applicants for 187 tags, 55% drawn; nonresidents 17 applicants for 13 tags, 76% drawn

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

1 developed campground in or beside the unit, including Birch Creek Campground.

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Road Conditions

ID 28 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 32 mi paved, 19 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features from 5,162 to 12,158 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 74/39°F, 0.7 in.; Oct 58/29°F, 0.9 in.; Nov 41/18°F, 0.6 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Lima (36 mi), Mackay (37 mi), Moore (37 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 58?

Unit 58 lies in Butte, Clark, Jefferson and Lemhi counties. Idaho Fish and Game describes unit 58 as those portions of Butte, Clark, Jefferson, and Lemhi counties within the Birch Creek drainage northwest of State Highway 22. It covers about 590 square miles.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 58?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 58 at 36% 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 58 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 58 are at Lima, about 36 miles from the unit's centre, with Mackay at about 37 miles. There are also 1 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the elk success rate in unit 58?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 58 at 100% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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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, Controlled hunt numbers, tags and season dates · 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 pronghorn in unit 58 · 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 Beaverhead Zone elk tag limits — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24