Unit 210 (John Long Range)
Montana Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit 210 lies in Missoula and Granite counties and covers about 487 square miles. Ground runs from 4,664 to 6,568 feet. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 210
Unit 210 lies in Missoula and Granite counties and covers about 487 square miles. Ground runs from 4,664 to 6,568 feet. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Unit 210
Montana FWP draws an exact line around unit 210 and says nothing about where the elk 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 Missoula and Granite counties. It runs to about 487 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Rock Creek, Slide Rock-Upper Willow Creek and Main Rock Creek
Montana FWP draws unit 210 in Missoula and Granite counties with a boundary that runs on State Route 1, State Route 38, State Route 348 and Interstate 90, and on Rock Creek, Slide Rock-Upper Willow Creek and Main Rock Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Black Pine Ridge, Silver King Mountain and John Long Mountains
Named high points inside the unit include Black Pine Ridge at 7,935 feet, Silver King Mountain at 7,845 feet, John Long Mountains at 7,827 feet, Sliderock Mountain at 7,819 feet and Pole Ridge at 7,380 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
Holding ground: Apex Gulch, Corral Gulch and Potato Gulch
Below them sit Apex Gulch at 5,616 feet, Corral Gulch at 5,521 feet, Potato Gulch at 5,496 feet, Welch-Gillispie Saddle at 5,486 feet and Miller Gulch at 5,395 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Mountain Spring and Lodgepole Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 114 mapped stream reaches, 13 lakes, 101 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Mountain Spring and Lodgepole Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
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. The unit runs from 4,664 feet to 6,568 feet, averaging 5,487 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit 210 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,664–6,568 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,487 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 487.3 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
- 101 tanks
- 2 springs
- 114 stream segments
- 13 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: Black Pine Ridge (7,935 ft), Silver King Mountain (7,845 ft), Sliderock Mountain (7,819 ft), Pole Ridge (7,380 ft)
Holding ground: West Fork Tyler Saddle (6,016 ft), McDermott Gulch (5,874 ft), Goose Gulch (5,769 ft), Mountain Spring, Lodgepole 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 Elk in Unit 210
Elk Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 210 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. Montana FWP's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Elk Draw Odds
Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.
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Planning Notes
Camp Sites
1 developed campground in or beside the unit, none of them named in the mapping data we hold — find them on a current forest map before you plan a camp.
Road Conditions
MT 1, I 90 / US 12 and MT 38 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 59 mi paved, 16 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.
Terrain Difficulty
4,664–6,568 ft, averaging 5,487. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.
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.
Weather
Season normals: Sep 72/36°F, 1.1 in.; Oct 57/28°F, 1.2 in.; Nov 42/19°F, 1.1 in..
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.
Nearest Town
Philipsburg (13 mi), Drummond (16 mi), Clinton (23 mi)
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- Montana FWP Hunting District Legal Descriptions, 2026/2027 — deer-elk hunting districts (pp. 19-35) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
- FWP hunting district feature services — deer/elk, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat districts (2026 and 2027 seasons) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24