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Unit 22 (Beaver)

Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep, Elk, Mule Deer, Mountain Goat, Pronghorn, Bear

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit bighorn sheep 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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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit 22

Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit 22

UDWR draws an exact line around unit 22 and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Delano Peak, Mount Belknap and Mount Baldy

Named high points inside the unit include Delano Peak at 12,145 feet, Mount Belknap at 12,125 feet, Mount Baldy at 12,041 feet, Mount Hawley at 11,975 feet and Mount Brigham at 11,749 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep need rock to escape into and will not stand far from it.

Holding ground: Big Meadow, Peterson Flat and LeBaron Meadows

Below them sit Big Meadow at 9,951 feet, Peterson Flat at 9,945 feet, LeBaron Meadows at 9,930 feet, Kays Meadow at 9,925 feet and Staley Pasture at 9,892 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs and Baker Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs, Baker Spring, Redcedar Spring, Rock Corral Spring and Granite 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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 5,016 feet to 10,046 feet, averaging 6,921 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit 22

UDWR publishes no bighorn sheep success figure for unit 22 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: pick a glassing position across from the escape terrain and stay on it for hours, not minutes.

Glassing from Alunite Ridge, Copper Belt Peak and Circleville Mountain

Take a position on one of Alunite Ridge (11,467 ft), Copper Belt Peak (11,375 ft), Circleville Mountain (11,326 ft) and Shelly Baldy Peak (11,312 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late hunts put rams with ewe groups on the same rock.

Water against feed

There are 297 mapped stream reaches and 112 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 75/44°F, Oct 62/33°F and Nov 48/24°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.1 in. in Sep, 1.6 in. in Oct and 1.1 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

I 15, US 89 and I 70 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Delano Peak, Mount Belknap, Mount Baldy and Mount Brigham as places to see from, and Bullion Pasture, Little Meadow, Big Flat and Dock Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

1,786 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Beaver, about 1 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,030 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Bighorn Sheep: 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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Bighorn Sheep Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit 22 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.

Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

Search Utah Draw Odds

UDWR's draw recap has no bighorn sheep record we can tie to unit 22. 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.

Elk Hunting in Unit 22

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 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 22

UDWR's material on unit 22 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Gold Mountain, Edna Peak and South Edna Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Gold Mountain at 11,654 feet, Edna Peak at 11,641 feet, South Edna Peak at 11,616 feet, Alunite Ridge at 11,467 feet and Copper Belt Peak at 11,375 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Long Flat, Burnt Flat and Gunsight Flat

Below them sit Long Flat at 9,889 feet, Burnt Flat at 9,878 feet, Gunsight Flat at 9,854 feet, Round Flat at 9,786 feet and Bear Hole at 9,761 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Jackrabbit Spring, Wycroft Spring and Old Indian Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Jackrabbit Spring, Wycroft Spring, Old Indian Spring, Alkali Spring, Mathew Spring and Dripping 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

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 22

UDWR publishes no elk success figure for unit 22 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Lake Peak, Signal Peak and City Creek Peak

Take a position on one of Lake Peak (11,302 ft), Signal Peak (11,297 ft), City Creek Peak (11,145 ft) and Horse Heaven (11,009 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 297 mapped stream reaches and 112 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Delano Peak, Mount Belknap, Mount Baldy and Mount Brigham as places to see from, and Bullion Pasture, Little Meadow, Big Flat and Dock Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Elk: 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. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 22 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

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	13	199	6.5%	27
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	210	0.5%	27
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	12	88	13.6%	20
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	47	4.3%	20
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	22	514	4.3%	18
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	264	0.8%	18
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	24	603	4.0%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	3	238	1.3%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident)	3	386	0.8%	31
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	31
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (resident)	22	174	12.6%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident)	3	22	13.6%	—

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's draw recap has no elk record we can tie to unit 22. 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 22

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit mule deer 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 Mule Deer in Unit 22

What UDWR publishes for unit 22 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Circleville Mountain, Shelly Baldy Peak and Lake Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Circleville Mountain at 11,326 feet, Shelly Baldy Peak at 11,312 feet, Lake Peak at 11,302 feet, Signal Peak at 11,297 feet and City Creek Peak at 11,145 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Rigger Park, Buck Pastures and Betenson Flat

Below them sit Rigger Park at 9,754 feet, Buck Pastures at 9,696 feet, Betenson Flat at 9,671 feet, Forked Flat at 9,630 feet and Round Flat at 9,594 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: Carlyle Spring, Wiregrass Spring and Little Maple Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Carlyle Spring, Wiregrass Spring, Little Maple Spring, Cowboy Spring, West Park Spring and Burnt 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

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 Mule Deer in Unit 22

UDWR publishes no mule deer success figure for unit 22 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Deer Trail Mountain, Birch Creek Mountain and Beecher Ridge

Take a position on one of Deer Trail Mountain (10,963 ft), Birch Creek Mountain (10,717 ft), Beecher Ridge (10,695 ft) and Tushar Ridge (10,280 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 297 mapped stream reaches and 112 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

1,786 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Beaver, about 1 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,030 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Mule Deer: 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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Mule Deer Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit 22 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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	7	40	17.5%	4
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	35	2.9%	4

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's draw recap has no mule deer record we can tie to unit 22. 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.

Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit 22

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit mountain goat 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 Mountain Goat in Unit 22

What UDWR publishes for unit 22 is a boundary, not a mountain goat map. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Horse Heaven, Deer Trail Mountain and Birch Creek Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Horse Heaven at 11,009 feet, Deer Trail Mountain at 10,963 feet, Birch Creek Mountain at 10,717 feet, Beecher Ridge at 10,695 feet and Tushar Ridge at 10,280 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: Wards Cache, Staley Pasture and Snowslide Gulch

Below them sit Wards Cache at 9,486 feet, Staley Pasture at 9,424 feet, Snowslide Gulch at 9,341 feet, Crystal Basin at 9,318 feet and Grindstone Flat at 9,282 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Plunge Spring, Adobe Yard Spring and North Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Plunge Spring, Adobe Yard Spring, North Spring, Guyman Seep, Bettie Spring and Willow 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

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 22

UDWR publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit 22 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 Marys Nipple, Chokecherry Peak and Sawmill Ridge

Take a position on one of Marys Nipple (10,050 ft), Chokecherry Peak (9,975 ft), Sawmill Ridge (9,970 ft) and Cork Ridge (9,948 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Delano Peak, Mount Belknap, Mount Baldy and Mount Brigham as places to see from, and Bullion Pasture, Little Meadow, Big Flat and Dock Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

1,786 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Beaver, about 1 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,030 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a 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

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit 22 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.

Mountain Goat Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	9	927	1.0%	10
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident)	1	3,116	0.0%	25
Archery — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	2	195	1.0%	12
Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	2	170	1.2%	22
Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	22
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	9	1,004	0.9%	25
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	25

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's draw recap has no mountain goat record we can tie to unit 22. 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.

Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 22

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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 Pronghorn in Unit 22

What UDWR publishes for unit 22 is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Marys Nipple, Chokecherry Peak and Sawmill Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Marys Nipple at 10,050 feet, Chokecherry Peak at 9,975 feet, Sawmill Ridge at 9,970 feet, Cork Ridge at 9,948 feet and Buck Ridge at 9,913 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn stay on the open rolling ground and leave the timber alone.

Holding ground: Strawberry Flat, Jeans Pasture and Flood Gulch

Below them sit Strawberry Flat at 9,065 feet, Jeans Pasture at 8,860 feet, Flood Gulch at 8,839 feet, Skull Flat at 8,822 feet and Britts Meadows at 8,802 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Jimmy Jones Spring, Boulder Spring and Mud Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Jimmy Jones Spring, Boulder Spring, Mud Spring, Cold Spring, McEwen Spring and Decker 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

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 Pronghorn in Unit 22

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit 22 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from Buck Ridge, Winkler Point and Little Shelly

Take a position on one of Buck Ridge (9,913 ft), Winkler Point (9,876 ft), Little Shelly (9,874 ft) and Tip Top (9,858 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 297 mapped stream reaches and 112 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Delano Peak, Mount Belknap, Mount Baldy and Mount Brigham as places to see from, and Bullion Pasture, Little Meadow, Big Flat and Dock Spring 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 a day here costs you

1,786 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Beaver, about 1 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,030 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit 22 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.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	35	266	13.2%	17
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	4	401	1.0%	17
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	10	29	34.5%	5
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	21	4.8%	5
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	39	274	14.2%	10
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	4	348	1.1%	10

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit 22. 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.

Bear Hunting in Unit 22

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 1,786 square miles. Ground runs from 5,016 to 10,046 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear 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 Black Bear in Unit 22

UDWR's material on unit 22 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its black bear live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. It runs to about 1,786 square miles.

What bounds unit 22

UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. 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: Winkler Point, Little Shelly and Tip Top

Named high points inside the unit include Winkler Point at 9,876 feet, Little Shelly at 9,874 feet, Tip Top at 9,858 feet, Iant Ridge at 9,858 feet and Bosman Ridge at 9,840 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.

Holding ground: Mill Canyon, Spring Gulch and Shingle Creek Meadows

Below them sit Mill Canyon at 8,739 feet, Spring Gulch at 8,628 feet, Shingle Creek Meadows at 8,555 feet, Suprise Gulch at 8,427 feet and Porkies Pasture at 8,426 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Lister Spring, Clarks Spring and Bell Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 297 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 112 stock tanks and 22 springs. Named sources include Lister Spring, Clarks Spring, Bell Spring, Bone Hollow Spring, Fremont Spring and North Kane 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

Unit 22 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,016–10,046 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,921 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
1,785.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

112 tanks
22 springs
297 stream segments
22 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: Delano Peak (12,145 ft), Mount Belknap (12,125 ft), Mount Baldy (12,041 ft), Mount Brigham (11,749 ft)

Holding ground: Bullion Pasture (10,872 ft), Little Meadow (10,248 ft), Big Flat (10,192 ft), Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs

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 Black Bear in Unit 22

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit 22 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Iant Ridge, Bosman Ridge and Hennessy Point

Take a position on one of Iant Ridge (9,858 ft), Bosman Ridge (9,840 ft), Hennessy Point (9,706 ft) and Whiterock Hump (9,661 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 15 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Delano Peak, Mount Belknap, Mount Baldy and Mount Brigham as places to see from, and Bullion Pasture, Little Meadow, Big Flat and Dock Spring 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 a day here costs you

1,786 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Beaver, about 1 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,030 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

Getting in and staying out: unit 22

Named routes and what they need

I 15 — 29.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 19.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70 — 18.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 130 — 16.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 20 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 257 — 12.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Beaver — 1.1 mi · fuel, groceries
Minersville — 15 mi · no services listed
Milford — 20.6 mi · fuel, lodging
Circleville — 22.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Junction — 24.1 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Anderson Meadow Rec Site · reservable
Betenson Flat Trailhead
Big John's CUA Dispersed
Bosman-Big John Flat Trailhead
Bullion Falls Trail System

Season weather and signal

Jan38° / 16° · 1.5" precip
Aug82° / 53° · 1.3" precip
Sep75° / 44° · 1.1" precip
Oct62° / 33° · 1.6" precip
Nov48° / 24° · 1.1" precip
Dec38° / 16° · 1.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Bear: 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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Bear Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit 22 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.

Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	2	129	1.6%	19
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident)	1	11	9.1%	12

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's draw recap has no black bear record we can tie to unit 22. 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

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

30 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Anderson Meadow Rec Site, Betenson Flat Trailhead and Big John's CUA Dispersed.

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Road Conditions

I 15, US 89 and I 70 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 126 mi paved, 20 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,016–10,046 ft, averaging 6,921. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 75/44°F, 1.1 in.; Oct 62/33°F, 1.6 in.; Nov 48/24°F, 1.1 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Beaver (1 mi), Minersville (15 mi), Milford (21 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 22?

Unit 22 lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties. UDWR has unit 22 Boundary begins at SR-130 and I-15; north on SR-130 to SR-21; north on SR-21 to SR-257; north on SR-257 to Black Rock Road; east on this road to I-15; south on I-15 to I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; south on I-15 to SR-130. Excludes all CWMUs. It covers about 1,786 square miles.

What is the bighorn sheep success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no bighorn sheep success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 22 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 22 are at Beaver, about 1 miles from the unit's centre, with Minersville at about 15 miles. There are also 30 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit 22 on public land?

What is the elk success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no elk success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no mule deer success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the black bear success rate in unit 22?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 22 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 UDWR'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.

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