Unit 62A (Island Park Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 62A lies in Fremont County and covers about 242 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,178 to 7,694 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 60%. Federal land covers about 86% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 62A
Unit 62A lies in Fremont County and covers about 242 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,178 to 7,694 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 60%. Federal land covers about 86% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 62A
Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 62A 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 Fremont County. It runs to about 242 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 62A
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 62A as all of Unit 62A.
The lines of the unit: Baker Draw-Black Mountain Springs, Fish Creek and Partridge Creek
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 62A in Fremont County on a line that runs along U.S. 191 and State Highway 47, and past Baker Draw-Black Mountain Springs, Fish Creek, Partridge Creek and Robinson Creek, 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: Snow Creek Butte, Moose Creek Butte and Warm River Butte
Named high points inside the unit include Snow Creek Butte at 7,694 feet, Moose Creek Butte at 7,045 feet, Warm River Butte at 6,610 feet, Snake River Butte at 6,493 feet and Hatchery Butte at 6,412 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: Trail Canyon, Twisted Draw and Anderson Mill Canyon
Below them sit Trail Canyon at 5,793 feet, Twisted Draw at 5,718 feet, Anderson Mill Canyon at 5,350 feet, Hale Canyon at 5,210 feet and Jump Off Canyon at 5,200 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: Warm River Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 28 mapped stream reaches, 3 lakes, 8 stock tanks and 5 springs. Named sources include Warm River 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 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 62A runs from 5,178 feet to 7,694 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.
Unit 62A terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,317–7,206 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,174 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 242.4 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
- 8 tanks
- 5 springs
- 28 stream segments
- 3 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: Snow Creek Butte (7,694 ft), Moose Creek Butte (7,045 ft), Warm River Butte (6,610 ft), Snake River Butte (6,493 ft)
Holding ground: Big Grassy (7,122 ft), Baker Draw (6,307 ft), Survey Draw (6,072 ft), Warm River 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 62A
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 62A at 60% — 3 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.
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) | 4 | 65 | 6.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 11 | 9.0% | — |
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 62A, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3067 — residents 65 applicants for 4 tags, 6% drawn; nonresidents 11 applicants for 1 tag, 9% 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
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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 62A · 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