Unit 061, 062, 064, 066 - 068, 071 - 077, 081, 101 - 103 (Independence Mountains, Snake Mountains and Ruby Dome)

No NDOW moose sheet

NDOW publishes no Hunt Information Sheet for moose on this group. That means there's no agency description of where moose live, which drainages hold them or how they move through the fall, and we won't fill that gap with guesses. Treat this section as a description of the ground the tag covers, not a guide to the animals on it.

Independence Mountains to Ruby Dome

The tag covers a very large share of northeastern Nevada. GNIS places the Independence Mountains, the Snake Mountains, the Salmon River Range, the Sheep Creek Range and the Leach Range inside the group, along with the Elko Hills, the Windermere Hills and the Mallard Hills. The highest named summits are Ruby Dome, Hole in the Mountain Peak, Mount Silliman, Mount Fitzgerald and Snow Lake Peak, every one of them above 11,000 feet.

On ground this big, a tagholder's first step is narrowing it down, and since NDOW doesn't publish a moose sheet, its own biologists are the people to ask. Settle on one range or one drainage system before you go rather than trying to cover the whole group in a single season.

The ground NDOW draws for this tag

A moose tag for this group is good in units 061, 062, 064, 066, 067, 068, 071, 072, 073, 074, 075, 076, 077, 081, 101, 102 and 103, about 13,460 square miles measured on NDOW's own boundary, in Elko County, Eureka County, Lander County, White Pine County and Humboldt County. The named ranges inside the line are Leach Range, Elko Hills, Windermere Hills, Salmon River Range, Independence Mountains and Snake Mountains. The highest named points are Ruby Dome (11,366 ft), Hole in the Mountain Peak (11,284 ft) and Mount Silliman (11,241 ft), and the lowest named ground sits near 4,558 feet. We don't print a land-status split for Nevada groups, because the figures we held didn't come from BLM's surface-management data; check BLM's current map for private parcels before you cross a fence or a cattle guard. GNIS names 404 springs inside it, Mud Spring, Arthenice Spring, Izzenhood Ranch Springs and Henry Spring among them.

State Routes 225, 226 and 229

Without an NDOW moose sheet, there's no agency advice on access, vehicles, wilderness or private land for this hunt. The named roads we have for the group are State Route 225, US 93, Interstate 80, State Route 226 and State Route 229. They cross a large area, and the sheet that would normally say which side roads lead to moose country doesn't exist.

Lamoille, Spring Creek, Owyhee and Jackpot

The nearest towns in our data are Lamoille, Spring Creek, Owyhee and Jackpot. NDOW doesn't describe services for this hunt, so check fuel and supplies before you leave pavement.

Before you plan routes, check land ownership and any wilderness or other designation with the federal land agencies, because this page can't tell you where vehicles are allowed or where private land blocks access. Then call NDOW about the hunt itself: where moose have been seen, how past tagholders went about it, and which part of this huge group to start in. The 2025 figures below are NDOW's own hunt data, the one agency source that covers this moose hunt directly.

The 2025 season in NDOW's own numbers

NDOW's 2025 Big Game Hunt Data is the hunter survey behind these figures: who drew, who went, who filled a tag. Success there is NDOW's own figure, successful hunters over hunters afield.

• Antlered, any legal weapon, Sep 01 - Nov 30: 2 resident tags. 2 hunters went afield and 2 filled their tag (100%). Hunters reported 10.0 days afield on average.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through the group are NV 225, US 93, I 80 and NV 226. Our road inventory counts roughly 471 miles of pavement, 717 of gravel and 870 of high-clearance or four-wheel-drive track. The nearest towns are Lamoille (7 mi), Spring Creek (11 mi) and Owyhee (14 mi), measured from the centre of the closest unit in the group.