Montana Mountain Goat

Unit G442 (South Teton)

Montana Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat

Unit G442 lies in Teton County. 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 G442

Unit G442 lies in Teton County. 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 G442

Montana FWP's material on unit G442 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mountain goat 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 Teton County.

The lines of the unit: Teton River, Continental Divide and Teton Pass

Montana FWP draws unit G442 in Teton County with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 144, USFS Trail 114, USFS Trail 110 and USFS Trail 128, and on Teton River, Continental Divide, Teton Pass and Sun River Pass, 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: Rocky Mountain, Old Baldy and Mount Lockhart

Named high points inside the unit include Rocky Mountain at 9,376 feet, Old Baldy at 9,133 feet, Mount Lockhart at 8,658 feet, Ear Mountain at 8,488 feet and Teton Peak at 8,387 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats live above the trees on cliff and talus and come down only when weather makes them.

Holding ground: Ninemile Park, Round Park and Lone Park

Below them sit Ninemile Park at 6,005 feet, Round Park at 5,797 feet, Lone Park at 5,691 feet, Garners Gulch at 5,643 feet and Green Gulch at 5,547 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 G442 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rocky Mountain (9,376 ft), Old Baldy (9,133 ft), Mount Lockhart (8,658 ft), Ear Mountain (8,488 ft)

Holding ground: Headquarters Creek Pass (7,681 ft), Route Creek Pass (7,295 ft), Tenmile Park (6,242 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 G442

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit G442 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 Porphyry Reef, Chute Mountain and Cave Mountain

Take a position on one of Porphyry Reef (7,760 ft), Chute Mountain (7,665 ft), Cave Mountain (7,491 ft) and Wind Mountain (6,829 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

The way in: USFS Road 144, USFS Trail 114 and USFS Trail 110

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 Road 144, USFS Trail 114, USFS Trail 110, USFS Trail 128 and USFS Trail 168. 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. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rocky Mountain, Old Baldy, Mount Lockhart and Ear Mountain as places to see from, and Headquarters Creek Pass, Route Creek Pass and Tenmile Park 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

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. 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 G442 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

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Montana FWP's draw recap has no mountain goat record we can tie to unit G442. 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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Camp Sites

Backcountry only — USFS trailhead camps for staging.

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Water

Alpine creeks abundant; filter always.

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Road Conditions

USFS gravel to trailhead, then foot.

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Terrain Difficulty

Extreme — exposed cliff work.

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Hunting Pressure

Minimal.

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Weather

Alpine weather with high-wind events.

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Nearest Town

60+ minutes from trailhead.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit G442?

Unit G442 lies in Teton County. Montana FWP draws unit G442 with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 144, USFS Trail 114, USFS Trail 110 and USFS Trail 128, and on Teton River, Continental Divide, Teton Pass and Sun River Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit G442?

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit G442 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