Unit 292 (West Garnet Range)
Montana Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit 292 lies in Missoula, Granite and Powell counties and covers about 484 square miles. Ground runs from 3,967 to 6,145 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 292
Unit 292 lies in Missoula, Granite and Powell counties and covers about 484 square miles. Ground runs from 3,967 to 6,145 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 292
What Montana FWP publishes for unit 292 is a boundary, not a elk map. 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, Granite and Powell counties. It runs to about 484 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Lobe Creek and Blackfoot River
Montana FWP draws unit 292 in Missoula, Granite and Powell counties with a boundary that runs on Route 271, State Route 200 and Interstate 90, and on Lobe Creek and Blackfoot River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.
High ground inside the line: Elevation Mountain, Mount Baldy and Granite Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Elevation Mountain at 7,052 feet, Mount Baldy at 6,937 feet, Granite Mountain at 6,892 feet, Chamberlain Mountain at 6,847 feet and Anderson Hill at 6,835 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: Cannonball Gulch, Day Gulch and Coyote Park
Below them sit Cannonball Gulch at 5,546 feet, Day Gulch at 5,353 feet, Coyote Park at 5,296 feet, Melhorn Gulch at 5,216 feet and McManus Gulch at 4,907 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Southern Cross Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 88 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes, 37 stock tanks and 6 springs. Named sources include Southern Cross 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 17%, BLM 15% 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 3,967 feet to 6,145 feet, averaging 4,904 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit 292 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 3,967–6,145 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,904 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 484 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- BLM — 15%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 17%
Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 37 tanks
- 6 springs
- 88 stream segments
- 11 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: Elevation Mountain (7,052 ft), Granite Mountain (6,892 ft), Chamberlain Mountain (6,847 ft), Lost Horse Mountain (6,262 ft)
Holding ground: Chamberlain Meadows (6,127 ft), Sand Park (6,058 ft), Weasel Gulch (5,671 ft), Southern Cross 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 292
Elk Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 292 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.
Search Montana Draw OddsMontana FWP's draw recap has no elk record we can tie to unit 292. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check Montana FWP's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.
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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