Unit 15 (Henry Mtns)
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer
Unit 15 lies in Garfield, Kane and Wayne counties and covers about 1,298 square miles. Ground runs from 3,908 to 8,123 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 15
Unit 15 lies in Garfield, Kane and Wayne counties and covers about 1,298 square miles. Ground runs from 3,908 to 8,123 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Unit 15
What UDWR publishes for unit 15 is a boundary, not a elk map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield, Kane and Wayne counties. It runs to about 1,298 square miles.
What bounds unit 15
UDWR draws unit 15 in Garfield, Kane and Wayne counties with a boundary that runs on Divide Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: North Summit Ridge, Mount Ellen Peak and Mount Ellen
Named high points inside the unit include North Summit Ridge at 11,515 feet, Mount Ellen Peak at 11,498 feet, Mount Ellen at 11,477 feet, South Summit Ridge at 11,407 feet and Mount Pennell at 11,393 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
Holding ground: Nasty Flat, Wickiup Pass and Star Flat
Below them sit Nasty Flat at 9,633 feet, Wickiup Pass at 9,261 feet, Star Flat at 8,868 feet, Blue Basin at 8,669 feet and Copper Basin at 8,583 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.
Water: Lost Spring, Bert Avery Seep and Dripping Rock Seep
The water inside the unit line comes to 453 mapped stream reaches, 5 lakes, 273 stock tanks and 133 springs. Named sources include Lost Spring, Bert Avery Seep, Dripping Rock Seep, McClellan Spring, Quaking Aspen Spring and Woodruff Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
Before you apply: who owns this unit
A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land. Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 85% and BLM 15%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 3,908 feet to 8,123 feet, averaging 5,577 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit 15 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 3,908–8,123 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,577 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 1,298.1 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- BLM — 15%
- Private / Other — 85%
Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 273 tanks
- 133 springs
- 453 stream segments
- 5 lakes
Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: North Summit Ridge (11,515 ft), South Summit Ridge (11,407 ft), Mount Pennell (11,393 ft), Mount Hillers (10,698 ft)
Holding ground: Bull Creek Pass (10,475 ft), East Saddle (9,975 ft), Star Flat (8,868 ft), Lost Spring, Bert Avery Seep
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 Elk in Unit 15
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 15 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. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Elk Draw Odds
Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.
Search Utah Draw OddsUDWR's draw recap has no elk record we can tie to unit 15. 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 UDWR's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24