Unit 262, 263, 264, 265, 266 (Spring Mountains, Eldorado and Newberry Mountains)

Spring Mountains and the Bird Spring Range

Two NDOW sheets cover this group, and neither says anything about Unit 263. For Unit 262, north of State Route 160, tagholders generally hunt La Madre Ridge and Brownstone Basin. Farther south, the sheet lists Little Devil Peak, Devil Peak, Shenandoah Peak and the area around the Green Monster Mine. Sheep country in the Spring Mountains climbs from about 3,280 feet to 8,510 on top of Potosi Mountain, and the ground runs from rolling hills in the Bird Spring Range to the sheer cliffs of the Red Rock escarpment.

Eldorado and Newberry mountains

Units 264, 265 and 266 take in the Newberry Mountains, the southern Eldorado Mountains and the northern Eldorado Mountains. NDOW's places there are the Ireteba Peaks, Keyhole Canyon, White Rock Wash, Pipe Spring Canyon, Boy Scout Canyon and Burro Wash. The ground varies a lot: rolling hills, small tight canyons near Lake Mohave, the steep faces of Spirit Mountain, and the sheer cliffs of Black Canyon in Unit 266. Much of Units 264 and 265 is decomposed granite rather than the limestone common elsewhere in Clark County, and on foot it's an unstable surface.

The ground NDOW draws for this tag

A bighorn sheep tag for this group is good in units 262, 263, 264, 265 and 266, about 4,050 square miles measured on NDOW's own boundary, in Clark County and Nye County. The named ranges inside the line are McCullough Range, Spring Mountains, Lucy Gray Mountains, Eldorado Mountains, State Line Hills and Chiquita Hills. The highest named points are Charleston Peak (11,910 ft), Mummy Mountain (11,516 ft) and Griffith Peak (11,043 ft), and the lowest named ground sits near 489 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 195 springs inside it, White Rock Spring, Shovel Spring, Mesquite Spring and Rainbow Spring among them.

Good access close to town

Access is good across most of this group. In Unit 262, being close to Las Vegas and Pahrump means adequate access through much of the Spring Mountains and the Bird Spring Range. In Units 264 through 266, NDOW rates access as very good, with two-track roads across much of the area, and some hunters use boats to learn the country and reach points that are hard to get to on foot.

Wilderness, closed areas and who to call

Parts of the group are wilderness, where motorized equipment and mechanized transport are prohibited, wheeled game carriers and chainsaws included. North of State Route 160 some areas are closed to hunting, and NDOW tells hunters to call the BLM Las Vegas District at (702) 647-5000 about them. The southern units include Lake Mead National Recreation Area land, and the sheet asks bighorn hunters to contact the National Park Service at (702) 293-8908 or (702) 293-8905 for its rules.

Primitive camping is the norm. Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City and Pahrump have full services and Sandy Valley has some. Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona, offer accommodations, while Searchlight has few.

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.

• 1-horn ram, any legal weapon, Jan 05 - Feb 20: 3 resident tags. 2 hunters went afield and 2 filled their tag (100%). Hunters reported 1.5 days afield on average.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through the group are US 95, NV 160, I 15 and Mccullough Pass. Our road inventory counts roughly 196 miles of pavement, 81 of gravel and 186 of high-clearance or four-wheel-drive track. The nearest towns are Mount Charleston (6 mi), Boulder City (9 mi) and Laughlin (12 mi), measured from the centre of the closest unit in the group.