Unit B22-1 (Black Bear Hunt Area 22-1)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Bear

Hunt Area 22-1 is drawn from units 22 and 31, in Adams, Idaho and Washington counties. Named ground inside it runs from 1,688 to 8,724 feet. Idaho Fish and Game publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this hunt area. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Bear Hunting in Unit B22-1

Where to Find Black Bear in Hunt Area 22-1

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around hunt area 22-1 and says nothing about where the black bear stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the hunt-area line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out.

What hunt area 22-1 is

Idaho Fish and Game describes black bear hunt area 22-1 as all of Units 22 and 31. That is whole units, so the outline on this page follows unit lines all the way round. The units it is drawn from lie in Adams, Idaho and Washington counties. Idaho Fish and Game also uses the code 22-1 for elk hunts, and in its own words "hunt areas are different for each species" — those are other pieces of ground, and this page is the black bear area.

High ground inside the line: Casey Mountain, White Mountain and Emmett Mountain

Named high points inside the hunt area include Casey Mountain at 8,724 feet, White Mountain at 8,494 feet, Emmett Mountain at 8,330 feet, Smith Mountain at 7,998 feet and Cuddy Mountain at 7,869 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.

Holding ground: Oxbow Saddle, Bear Saddle and Big Flat

Below them sit Oxbow Saddle at 7,151 feet, Bear Saddle at 6,997 feet, Big Flat at 6,975 feet, Sucker Gulch at 6,755 feet and Coffee Flat at 6,566 feet. That is the low country of the hunt area — 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: Homestead Spring, Chipmunk Spring and Harrington Spring

Named sources include Homestead Spring, Chipmunk Spring, Harrington Spring, Looney Spring, Peck Mountain Spring and Dean Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

How high the named ground goes

Named ground inside hunt area 22-1 runs from 1,688 feet to 8,724 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit B22-1 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Casey Mountain (8,724 ft), White Mountain (8,494 ft), Emmett Mountain (8,330 ft), Smith Mountain (7,998 ft)

Holding ground: Joes Gap (8,012 ft), Lost Basin (7,358 ft), Buck Park (7,279 ft), Homestead Spring, Chipmunk 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 Black Bear in Hunt Area 22-1

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics describe general seasons on game management units, so there is no black bear success figure we can tie to hunt area 22-1 alone, and we won't borrow one from a unit. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Rush Peak, White Monument and Hitt Mountains

Take a position on one of Rush Peak (7,633 ft), White Monument (7,599 ft), Hitt Mountains (7,578 ft) and Sturgill Peak (7,572 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. 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, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Casey Mountain, White Mountain, Emmett Mountain and Smith Mountain as places to see from, and Joes Gap, Lost Basin, Buck Park and Homestead Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the hunt-area line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

With 7,036 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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. We have no black bear success figure for this hunt area that survives checking against Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

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.

Bear: 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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Bear Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics describe general seasons on game management units, and hunt area 22-1 is a controlled-hunt area, not a unit, so there is no figure here we can tie to it. A unit's general-season number would describe different hunters on different ground. Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner reports controlled-hunt results hunt by hunt, which is the figure to check before you apply.

Bear Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing black bear hunt we can tie to hunt area 22-1 — black bear draws are not in the results we hold. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Water

9 named water sources inside the hunt area in our water layer, including Homestead Spring, Chipmunk Spring and Harrington Spring. Which of them run in autumn is something only a scouting trip will tell you.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 1,688 to 8,724 ft. More than 4,000 feet between them alone, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho hunt area 22-1?

Hunt Area 22-1 is drawn from units 22 and 31, in Adams, Idaho and Washington counties. Idaho Fish and Game describes black bear hunt area 22-1 as all of Units 22 and 31.

What is the black bear success rate in hunt area 22-1?

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics cover general seasons on game management units, and hunt area 22-1 is a controlled-hunt area, so there is no figure we can tie to it. Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner reports controlled-hunt results hunt by hunt, and that is the number to check before you apply.

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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: Controlled hunt area description for black bear hunt area 22-1, The game management units the area is drawn from · accessed 2026-10-24
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