Idaho Mule Deer Moose

Unit 62 (Island Park Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Moose

Unit 62 lies in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties and covers about 494 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,219 to 6,695 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 24%. Federal land covers about 24% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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5,002–6,227 ft

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 62

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 62 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties. It runs to about 494 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 62, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live.

The lines of the unit: Leigh Creek and Robinson Creek

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 62 in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties on a line that runs along State Highway 47, U.S. 191 and State Highway 33, and past Leigh Creek and Robinson Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. 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: Rising Butte, Elk Point and Huckleberry Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Rising Butte at 6,695 feet, Elk Point at 6,331 feet and Huckleberry Ridge at 6,021 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: Bear Meadow, Cart Hollow and Henry Meadow

Below them sit Bear Meadow at 6,013 feet, Cart Hollow at 5,782 feet, Henry Meadow at 5,534 feet, Moose Draw at 5,488 feet and Hog Hollow at 5,219 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. 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 46 mapped stream reaches, 12 lakes and 27 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 62 runs from 5,219 feet to 6,695 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit 62 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,002–6,227 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,685 ft ; peaks can run higher.
494 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

27 tanks
46 stream segments
12 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: Rising Butte (6,695 ft), Elk Point (6,331 ft), Huckleberry Ridge (6,021 ft)

Holding ground: Rock Hollow (6,388 ft), Putney Meadows (6,379 ft), Bear Meadow (6,013 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 62

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put deer success in unit 62 at 24% 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.

The 2026 controlled hunts in unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 rules list 3 controlled hunts for mule deer on unit 62 under its own number.

Hunt 1050 — antlered deer, 20 tags, Oct 10–Nov 30
Hunt 1067 — either sex deer, 100 tags, Oct 5–Nov 8
Hunt 1110 — youth only deer, 50 tags, Oct 10–Oct 24. Either Sex

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 62 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 deer 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 Rising Butte, Elk Point and Huckleberry Ridge

Take a position on one of Rising Butte (6,695 ft), Elk Point (6,331 ft) and Huckleberry Ridge (6,021 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, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 46 mapped stream reaches and 27 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 70/39°F, Oct 55/30°F and Nov 39/20°F. By Nov the lows are around 20°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 1.3 in. in Sep, 1.6 in. in Oct and 1.4 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: ID 33 and US 20

ID 33, US 20 and ID 32 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. National Forest Development Road 264 needs clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. 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 62

Named routes and what they need

ID 33 — 14.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 20 — 13.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
ID 32 — 11.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Jackpine Road — 6.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Coyote Meadows Road — 6.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
National Forest Development Road 264 — 5.7 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

Ashton — 10.1 mi · lodging
Tetonia — 12.9 mi · groceries
St. Anthony — 19 mi · no services listed
Teton — 19.3 mi · no services listed
Driggs — 19.6 mi · groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Aspen Acres RV Park and Golf Course
Jolley Camper

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 10° · 2.1" precip
Aug80° / 47° · 1" precip
Sep70° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct55° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov39° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec28° / 11° · 2.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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 62 at 24% — 106 animals taken by 440 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.

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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	19	340	6.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	1	19	5.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (resident)	2	249	1.0%	—
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	5	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.

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Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 first drawing for mule deer in unit 62, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 1050 — residents 340 applicants for 19 tags, 6% drawn; nonresidents 19 applicants for 1 tag, 5% drawn
Hunt 1067 — residents 229 applicants for 96 tags, 42% drawn; nonresidents 8 applicants for 4 tags, 50% drawn
Hunt 1110 — residents 16 applicants for 16 tags, 100% drawn; nonresidents 1 applicants for 1 tag, 100% 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.

Moose Hunting in Unit 62

Unit 62 lies in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties and covers about 494 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,219 to 6,695 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 80%. Federal land covers about 24% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 62 and says nothing about where the Shiras moose stand inside it. 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 Fremont, Madison and Teton counties. It runs to about 494 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 62 as all of Unit 62.

The lines of the unit: Leigh Creek and Robinson Creek

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 62 in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties on a line that runs along State Highway 47, U.S. 191 and State Highway 33, and past Leigh Creek and Robinson Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Rising Butte, Elk Point and Huckleberry Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Rising Butte at 6,695 feet, Elk Point at 6,331 feet and Huckleberry Ridge at 6,021 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: Wiggleton Hollow, Rock Hollow and Putney Meadows

Below them sit Wiggleton Hollow at 6,432 feet, Rock Hollow at 6,388 feet, Putney Meadows at 6,379 feet, Long Meadows at 6,221 feet and Pole Canyon at 6,082 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 46 mapped stream reaches, 12 lakes and 27 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 62 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,002–6,227 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,685 ft ; peaks can run higher.
494 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

27 tanks
46 stream segments
12 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: Rising Butte (6,695 ft), Elk Point (6,331 ft), Huckleberry Ridge (6,021 ft)

Holding ground: Rock Hollow (6,388 ft), Putney Meadows (6,379 ft), Bear Meadow (6,013 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 62

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 62 at 80% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

The 2025 and 2026 controlled hunts in unit 62

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 and 2026 rules list one controlled hunt for Shiras moose on unit 62 under its own number.

Hunt 3066 — 5 tags, Aug 30–Nov 23

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 62 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 Rising Butte, Elk Point and Huckleberry Ridge

Take a position on one of Rising Butte (6,695 ft), Elk Point (6,331 ft) and Huckleberry Ridge (6,021 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 September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Water against feed

There are 46 mapped stream reaches and 27 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. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: ID 33 and US 20

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 62

Named routes and what they need

ID 33 — 14.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 20 — 13.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
ID 32 — 11.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Jackpine Road — 6.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Coyote Meadows Road — 6.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
National Forest Development Road 264 — 5.7 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

Ashton — 10.1 mi · lodging
Tetonia — 12.9 mi · groceries
St. Anthony — 19 mi · no services listed
Teton — 19.3 mi · no services listed
Driggs — 19.6 mi · groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Aspen Acres RV Park and Golf Course
Jolley Camper

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 10° · 2.1" precip
Aug80° / 47° · 1" precip
Sep70° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct55° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov39° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec28° / 11° · 2.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 62 at 80% — 4 animals taken by 5 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	5	26	19.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	5	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.

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Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 first drawing for Shiras moose in unit 62, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 3066 — residents 26 applicants for 5 tags, 19% drawn; nonresidents 5 applicants for 0 tags, 0% 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

2 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Aspen Acres RV Park and Golf Course and Jolley Camper.

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Road Conditions

ID 33, US 20 and ID 32 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 57 mi paved, 59 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features from 5,219 to 6,695 ft. Named heights only — the ground between and below them can run lower.

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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 70/39°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 55/30°F, 1.6 in.; Nov 39/20°F, 1.4 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Ashton (10 mi), Tetonia (13 mi), St. Anthony (19 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 62?

Unit 62 lies in Fremont, Madison and Teton counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 62 on a line that runs along State Highway 47, U.S. 191 and State Highway 33, and past Leigh Creek and Robinson Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It covers about 494 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 62?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 62 at 24% 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 62 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 62 are at Ashton, about 10 miles from the unit's centre, with Tetonia at about 13 miles. There are also 2 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 62?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 62 at 80% 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 general deer season page for unit 62 — 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 deer in unit 62 · 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
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