Unit 60 (Island Park Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 60 lies in Clark and Fremont counties and covers about 437 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,157 to 7,808 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 67%. Federal land covers about 49% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 60
Unit 60 lies in Clark and Fremont counties and covers about 437 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,157 to 7,808 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 67%. Federal land covers about 49% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 60
Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 60 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its Shiras moose live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Clark and Fremont counties. It runs to about 437 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 60
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 60 as all of Unit 60.
The lines of the unit: Split Butte and Sand Creek
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 60 in Clark and Fremont counties on a line that runs along U.S. 191-20, and past Split Butte and Sand Creek, 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: Bishop Mountain, High Point and Thurmon Ridge
Named high points inside the unit include Bishop Mountain at 7,808 feet, High Point at 7,280 feet, Thurmon Ridge at 7,222 feet, Davis Butte at 6,968 feet and Crystal Butte at 6,955 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: Porcupine Canyon, Cooney Canyon and Green Canyon
Below them sit Porcupine Canyon at 6,436 feet, Cooney Canyon at 6,400 feet, Green Canyon at 6,333 feet, Free Use Canyon Number 2 at 6,281 feet and Free Use Canyon Number 1 at 6,254 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Lyle Spring, Cold Spring and Bear Wallow Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 55 mapped stream reaches, 13 lakes and 37 stock tanks. Named sources include Lyle Spring, Cold Spring, Bear Wallow Spring, Sharp Springs, Fogg Butte Well and Bishop Burn Well. 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 60 runs from 5,157 feet to 7,808 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.
Unit 60 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,000–6,959 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,085 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 437.1 sq mi inside the boundary.
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
- 37 tanks
- 55 stream segments
- 13 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: Bishop Mountain (7,808 ft), High Point (7,280 ft), Thurmon Ridge (7,222 ft), Davis Butte (6,968 ft)
Holding ground: Green Canyon Pass (6,928 ft), North Antelope Flat (6,851 ft), Bear Canyon (6,510 ft), Lyle Spring, Cold 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 Shiras Moose in Unit 60
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 60 at 67% — 10 animals taken by 15 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside 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.
Moose Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident) | 14 | 138 | 10.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 25 | 4.0% | — |
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 EngineIdaho Fish and Game's 2026 first drawing for Shiras moose in unit 60, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3061 — residents 138 applicants for 14 tags, 10% drawn; nonresidents 25 applicants for 1 tag, 4% 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 2026. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.
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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
- 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
- IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for Shiras moose in unit 60 · 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