Unit 422 (North Dearborn)
Montana Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit 422 lies in Lewis and Clark County and covers about 484 square miles. Ground runs from 4,322 to 6,638 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 422
Unit 422 lies in Lewis and Clark County and covers about 484 square miles. Ground runs from 4,322 to 6,638 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 422
Montana FWP's material on unit 422 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Lewis and Clark County. It runs to about 484 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Continental Divide, Rogers Pass and Sun River
Montana FWP draws unit 422 in Lewis and Clark County with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail 270, Highway 287 and Highway 200, and on Continental Divide, Rogers Pass, Sun River and Crown Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Scapegoat Mountain, Flint Mountain and Caribou Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Scapegoat Mountain at 9,194 feet, Flint Mountain at 9,039 feet, Caribou Peak at 8,751 feet, Cigarette Rock at 8,263 feet and Steamboat Mountain at 8,250 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: Carmichael Basin, Welcome Pass and Elk Pass
Below them sit Carmichael Basin at 6,332 feet, Welcome Pass at 6,153 feet, Elk Pass at 5,979 feet, Cataract Basin at 5,893 feet and Bailey Basin at 5,708 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Cataract Falls
The water inside the unit line comes to 28 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes and 8 stock tanks. Named sources include Cataract Falls. 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 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 4,322 feet to 6,638 feet, averaging 5,252 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit 422 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,322–6,638 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,252 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 484.3 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
- 8 tanks
- 28 stream segments
- 4 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: Scapegoat Mountain (9,194 ft), Flint Mountain (9,039 ft), Caribou Peak (8,751 ft), Cigarette Rock (8,263 ft)
Holding ground: Halfmoon Park (7,123 ft), Bunch Grass Basin (6,952 ft), Straight Creek Pass (6,727 ft), Cataract Falls
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 422
Elk Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 422 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
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — B License either sex (resident) | 101 | 101 | 100.0% | — |
| Rifle — B License either sex (nonresident) | 20 | 26 | 76.9% | — |
Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.
Open in Draw Odds EngineMontana FWP's draw recap has no elk record we can tie to unit 422. 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