Montana Mountain Goat

Unit G521 (Two Sisters)

Montana Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat

Unit G521 lies in Stillwater and Sweet Grass 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 G521

Where to Find Mountain Goat in Unit G521

Montana FWP draws an exact line around unit G521 and says nothing about where the mountain goat stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties.

The lines of the unit: Main Boulder River, Forge Creek and Divide Creek

Montana FWP draws unit G521 in Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties with a boundary that runs on Main Boulder River, Forge Creek, Divide Creek and Stillwater 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: Tumble Mountain, Mount Douglas and Two Sisters

Named high points inside the unit include Tumble Mountain at 11,296 feet, Mount Douglas at 11,278 feet, Two Sisters at 11,146 feet, Chalice Peak at 11,141 feet and Snowy Peak at 10,968 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: Lake Plateau, Jordan Pass and Rabbit Gulch

Below them sit Lake Plateau at 9,665 feet, Jordan Pass at 9,380 feet and Rabbit Gulch at 8,652 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Unit G521 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Tumble Mountain (11,296 ft), Mount Douglas (11,278 ft), Two Sisters (11,146 ft), Chalice Peak (11,141 ft)

Holding ground: Lake Plateau (9,665 ft), Jordan Pass (9,380 ft), Rabbit Gulch (8,652 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 G521

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit G521 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 Hawley Mountain, Jordan Mountain and Hicks Peak

Take a position on one of Hawley Mountain (10,126 ft), Jordan Mountain (10,115 ft), Hicks Peak (9,928 ft) and Breakneck Plateau (9,318 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. 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.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Tumble Mountain, Mount Douglas, Two Sisters and Chalice Peak as places to see from, and Lake Plateau, Jordan Pass and Rabbit Gulch as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

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 G521 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)	4	197	2.0%	—

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 G521. 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. Cabinet country includes wet cliff bands, timber, and exposed alpine travel.

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Hunting Pressure

Very low for goats specifically. Cabinet wilderness use is generally light.

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Weather

The Cabinets receive heavy precipitation. Plan for sustained rain, early snow, and cold fronts.

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Permit Notes

All HD 521-20 permits are issued through FWP's special drawing.

Note: Plan for wet approach routes and waterproof gear. Recovery from Cabinet cliff country demands careful logistics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit G521?

Unit G521 lies in Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties. Montana FWP draws unit G521 with a boundary that runs on Main Boulder River, Forge Creek, Divide Creek and Stillwater River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit G521?

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit G521 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