Unit 183, 153 (Clan Alpine Mountains and the Fish Creek Mountains)

Clan Alpine canyons and the Louderbacks in Unit 183

NDOW's sheet for Unit 183 is a list of places to glass and hunt in and around the Clan Alpine Mountains. It names Cow, Deep, Dummy, Grover and Hercules canyons, along with Horse Creek and Chalk Mountain. It also points to the Louderback Mountain area and two ridges past it: the main ridge southeast of the Louderbacks, known as the Little Angel Spur, and the next main ridge to the east, east of Bench Creek, known as the Bench Creek Spur.

The sheet doesn't rank any of them. Horse Creek stands apart for another reason, which is access: the drainage includes Navy-owned land with its own arrangement, covered below.

Mount Moses in the Fish Creek Mountains, Unit 153

Unit 153 is covered by a separate NDOW sheet that it shares with Unit 045 and the Tobin Range. Only the Fish Creek Mountains part applies to this group, and the advice is short: focus on Mount Moses and the ridges and canyons around it. That's the whole of NDOW's hunting guidance for 153, so it's where your effort belongs there.

Both units share one late hunt, opening near the end of November and running to New Year's Day.

The ground NDOW draws for this tag

A bighorn sheep tag for this group is good in units 183 and 153, about 2,044 square miles measured on NDOW's own boundary, in Churchill County, Lander County and Pershing County. The named ranges inside the line are Louderback Mountains, Clan Alpine Mountains, Fish Creek Mountains, New Pass Range and Augusta Mountains. The highest named points are Mount Augusta (9,949 ft), New Pass Peak (8,994 ft) and Healy Peak (8,833 ft), and the lowest named ground sits near 3,392 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 46 springs inside it, Straight Canyon Spring, Water Canyon Spring, Deer Lodge Spring and Eagle Spring among them.

Dixie Valley and Edwards Creek Valley for the Clan Alpines

Access to the Clan Alpine Mountains comes off State Route 121 in Dixie Valley on the west side, and from the main road in Edwards Creek Valley along the base of the range on the east. From Fallon on Highway 50, it's about an hour to an hour and a half. Two-track roads climb a few canyons, but many drainages have limited access, and hiking is the main way into sheep habitat. Hunting usually begins at lower elevations off the valley floor.

Navy-owned land in the Horse Creek drainage is open to hunters through a Memorandum of Understanding with NDOW.

Jersey Valley for the Fish Creek Mountains

For the Fish Creeks, take Grass Valley Road (State Route 294) south from Winnemucca, or start at the Coal Canyon exit on Interstate 80, then go east and north on the Jersey Valley dirt road along the west side of the range. From Battle Mountain, take State Route 305 southwest, turn west on State Route 121 through Buffalo Valley, and cross Jersey Summit into Jersey Valley.

Both ranges are physically demanding, and the weather can turn quickly. The Fish Creeks have no developed campgrounds but plenty of tent and trailer spots off dirt roads. Fallon, Lovelock, Winnemucca and Battle Mountain have full services, and Cold Springs on Highway 50, east of the Clan Alpines, has a restaurant, limited lodging and trailer hookups.

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.

• Any ram, any legal weapon, Nov 20 - Jan 01: 9 resident and 1 nonresident tags. 10 hunters went afield and 10 filled their tag (100%). Hunters reported 3.8 days afield on average.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through the group are Dixie Valley Road, US 50, Jersey Valley Road and NV 305. Our road inventory counts roughly 47 miles of pavement, 102 of gravel and 220 of high-clearance or four-wheel-drive track. The nearest towns are Battle Mountain (31 mi), Crescent Valley (37 mi) and Austin (41 mi), measured from the centre of the closest unit in the group.