Montana Mountain Goat

Unit G150 (Continental Divide)

Montana Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat

Unit G150 lies in Flathead and Powell counties. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit mountain goat success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit G150

Unit G150 lies in Flathead and Powell counties. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit mountain goat success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mountain Goat in Unit G150

Montana FWP draws an exact line around unit G150 and says nothing about where the mountain goat 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 Flathead and Powell counties.

The lines of the unit: Continental Divide, Kevan Mountain and Switchback Pass

Montana FWP draws unit G150 in Flathead and Powell counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail 138, USFS Trail 112, USFS Trail 263 and USFS Trail 103, and on Continental Divide, Kevan Mountain, Switchback Pass and White River Pass, 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: Three Sisters, Silvertip Mountain and Pentagon Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Three Sisters at 8,886 feet, Silvertip Mountain at 8,860 feet, Pentagon Mountain at 8,841 feet, Redhead Peak at 8,745 feet and Chinese Wall at 8,535 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats need cliff, and on this ground the cliff is where the hunt happens.

Holding ground: Switchback Pass, Larch Hill Pass and Spotted Bear Pass

Below them sit Switchback Pass at 7,796 feet, Larch Hill Pass at 7,718 feet, Spotted Bear Pass at 6,767 feet, Brushy Park at 5,706 feet and Independence Park at 4,134 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.

Unit G150 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Three Sisters (8,886 ft), Silvertip Mountain (8,860 ft), Pentagon Mountain (8,841 ft), Redhead Peak (8,745 ft)

Holding ground: Switchback Pass (7,796 ft), Larch Hill Pass (7,718 ft), Spotted Bear Pass (6,767 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 Mountain Goat in Unit G150

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit G150 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: glass from across the basin, judge the climb honestly, and decide whether a hit animal could be recovered.

Glassing from Hahn Peak, Salt Mountain and Gladiator Mountain

Take a position on one of Hahn Peak (8,299 ft), Salt Mountain (8,253 ft), Gladiator Mountain (8,221 ft) and Turtlehead Mountain (8,156 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

The way in: USFS Trail 138, USFS Trail 112 and USFS Trail 263

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones Montana FWP draws the boundary with: USFS Trail 138, USFS Trail 112, USFS Trail 263, USFS Trail 103 and USFS Trail 89. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Three Sisters, Silvertip Mountain, Pentagon Mountain and Redhead Peak as places to see from, and Switchback Pass, Larch Hill Pass and Spotted Bear Pass as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What we can't tell you

We have no mountain goat success figure for this unit that survives checking against Montana FWP's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Montana rules that decide your day

Summarised from FWP regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Montana has no general off-road retrieval allowance; travel stays on open routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before moving the animal.

Leaving meat

Wasting game meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling without permission, and no shooting from or across a public road.

Mountain Goat: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mountain Goat Success Rates

Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit G150 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.

Mountain Goat Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General either sex (resident)	1	167	0.6%	—

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.

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Montana FWP's draw recap has no mountain goat record we can tie to unit G150. 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

Planning Notes

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Terrain Difficulty

Very strenuous. Cliff, scree, and multi-day alpine travel are standard.

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Hunting Pressure

Low because the quota is tiny. Backpackers and other alpine users may share trailheads.

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Weather

High wind, rapid weather shifts, and early snow at elevation are expected. Bring full shelter and layered insulation.

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Permit Notes

Permits for HD 150-20 are issued exclusively through FWP's special drawing.

Note: Review wilderness and USFS rules for pack stock or motorized use before committing to a recovery plan.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit G150?

Unit G150 lies in Flathead and Powell counties. Montana FWP draws unit G150 with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail 138, USFS Trail 112, USFS Trail 263 and USFS Trail 103, and on Continental Divide, Kevan Mountain, Switchback Pass and White River Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit G150?

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit G150 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Montana FWP's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

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 — goat hunting districts (pp. 43-45) — 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