Unit 64 (Palisades Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 64 lies in Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Teton counties and covers about 357 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,028 to 9,007 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 90%. Federal land covers about 20% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 64
Unit 64 lies in Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Teton counties and covers about 357 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,028 to 9,007 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 90%. Federal land covers about 20% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 64
What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for unit 64 is a boundary, not a Shiras moose map. 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 Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Teton counties. It runs to about 357 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 64
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 64 as all of Unit 64.
The lines of the unit: Snake River, Kelly Canyon and Hawley Gulch
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 64 in Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Teton counties on a line that runs along State Highway 33, U.S. 191, Forest Service Road 218 and Forest Service Road 226, and past Snake River, Kelly Canyon, Hawley Gulch and Hilton 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: Garns Mountain, Grandview Point and Farnes Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Garns Mountain at 9,007 feet, Grandview Point at 7,639 feet, Farnes Mountain at 7,395 feet, West Farnes Mountain at 7,395 feet and East Farnes Mountain at 7,279 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: Sweetwater Canyon, Spori Canyon and Spooky Canyon
Below them sit Sweetwater Canyon at 6,732 feet, Spori Canyon at 6,410 feet, Spooky Canyon at 6,324 feet, Limekiln Canyon at 6,289 feet and Kirkham Hollow at 6,221 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Mud Springs, Graham Spring and East Farnes Mountain Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 20 mapped stream reaches, 5 lakes and 62 stock tanks. Named sources include Mud Springs, Graham Spring, East Farnes Mountain Spring, Pincock Hot Springs, Hawley Warm Spring and Buck 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 64 runs from 5,028 feet to 9,007 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.
Unit 64 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,874–8,023 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,055 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 357.2 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
- 62 tanks
- 20 stream segments
- 5 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: Garns Mountain (9,007 ft), Grandview Point (7,639 ft), Farnes Mountain (7,395 ft), Buckskin Morgan Ridge (6,710 ft)
Holding ground: Elk Flat (8,256 ft), Blacktail Pass (7,882 ft), Moody Meadow (6,778 ft), Mud Springs, Graham 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 64
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 64 at 90% — 9 animals taken by 10 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) | 9 | 76 | 12.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 14 | 7.0% | — |
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 64, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3070 — residents 76 applicants for 9 tags, 12% drawn; nonresidents 14 applicants for 1 tag, 7% 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 64 · 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