Unit 311 (Lower Gallatin)
Montana Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer
Unit 311 lies in Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson and Broadwater counties and covers about 529 square miles. Ground runs from 4,095 to 5,683 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 311
Unit 311 lies in Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson and Broadwater counties and covers about 529 square miles. Ground runs from 4,095 to 5,683 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 311
Montana FWP's material on unit 311 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson and Broadwater counties. It runs to about 529 square miles.
What bounds unit 311
Montana FWP draws unit 311 in Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson and Broadwater counties with a boundary that runs on US Highway 287, Route 84, Route 359 and Interstate 90, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: East Butte, London Hills and London Peak
Named high points inside the unit include East Butte at 6,654 feet, London Hills at 6,309 feet, London Peak at 6,309 feet, Cave Mountain at 5,887 feet and Red Mountain at 5,709 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: Godfrey Canyon, Summit Valley and Sheep Gulch
Below them sit Godfrey Canyon at 4,490 feet, Summit Valley at 4,339 feet, Sheep Gulch at 4,257 feet, Dry Hollow at 4,220 feet and Milligan Canyon at 4,156 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: Huller Springs and Round Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 564 mapped stream reaches, 20 lakes, 85 stock tanks and 1 springs. Named sources include Huller Springs and Round 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 Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,095 feet to 5,683 feet, averaging 4,804 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit 311 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,095–5,683 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,804 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 529.4 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 85 tanks
- 1 springs
- 564 stream segments
- 20 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: East Butte (6,654 ft), London Hills (6,309 ft), Cave Mountain (5,887 ft), Red Mountain (5,709 ft)
Holding ground: Greer Gulch (4,882 ft), Huller Springs, Round 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 311
Elk Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 311 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 311. 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.
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.
- 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