Unit S36 (Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 36)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Hunt Area 36 is drawn from units 36 and 27, in Blaine, Custer, Lemhi and Valley counties. Named ground inside it runs from 6,066 to 10,018 feet. Idaho Fish and Game publishes no per-unit Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep 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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Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit S36
Hunt Area 36 is drawn from units 36 and 27, in Blaine, Custer, Lemhi and Valley counties. Named ground inside it runs from 6,066 to 10,018 feet. Idaho Fish and Game publishes no per-unit Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep success figure we can verify for this hunt area. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Hunt Area 36
What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for hunt area 36 is a boundary, not a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep map. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such.
What hunt area 36 is
Idaho Fish and Game describes Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep hunt area 36 as that portion of Unit 36 within the Yankee Fork drainage and that portion of Unit 27 south of Forest Service road 172. That makes it a piece of ground drawn for this hunt, not a unit, and the outline on this page is IDFG's own polygon for it rather than a unit outline. The units it is drawn from lie in Blaine, Custer, Lemhi and Valley counties. Idaho Fish and Game also uses the code 36 for deer hunts, and in its own words "hunt areas are different for each species" — those are other pieces of ground, and this page is the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep area.
High ground inside the line: Mount Jordan, Mount Loening and Pinyon Peak
Named high points inside the hunt area include Mount Jordan at 10,018 feet, Mount Loening at 9,972 feet, Pinyon Peak at 9,916 feet, Cabin Creek Peak at 9,897 feet and Mount Greylock at 9,834 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep need rock to escape into and will not stand far from it.
Holding ground: Slaughterhouse Gulch, Swift Gulch and Puzzler Gulch
Below them sit Slaughterhouse Gulch at 6,642 feet, Swift Gulch at 6,563 feet, Puzzler Gulch at 6,470 feet, Preachers Cove at 6,262 feet and Packer Gulch at 6,066 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.
How high the named ground goes
Named ground inside hunt area 36 runs from 6,066 feet to 10,018 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.
Unit S36 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Jordan (10,018 ft), Mount Loening (9,972 ft), Pinyon Peak (9,916 ft), Cabin Creek Peak (9,897 ft)
Holding ground: Slaughterhouse Gulch (6,642 ft), Puzzler Gulch (6,470 ft), Preachers Cove (6,262 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 Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Hunt Area 36
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics describe general seasons on game management units, and hunt area 36 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.
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.
Search Idaho Draw OddsIdaho Fish and Game's 2026 first drawing for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in hunt area 36, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 5014 — residents 38 applicants for 1 tag, 3% drawn; nonresidents 18 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
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- Moose, Bighorn Sheep & Mountain Goat 2025 & 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Controlled hunt area description for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep hunt area 36, The game management units the area is drawn from, Controlled hunt numbers, tags and season dates · accessed 2026-10-24
- 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