Unit 29 (Zion)
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer
Unit 29 lies in Iron, Kane and Washington counties and covers about 1,723 square miles. Ground runs from 2,700 to 8,767 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 29
Unit 29 lies in Iron, Kane and Washington counties and covers about 1,723 square miles. Ground runs from 2,700 to 8,767 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.
Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit 29
UDWR draws an exact line around unit 29 and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Iron, Kane and Washington counties. It runs to about 1,723 square miles.
What bounds unit 29
UDWR draws unit 29 in Iron, Kane and Washington counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Black Mountain, Gooseberry Point and Cedar Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Black Mountain at 10,382 feet, Gooseberry Point at 10,347 feet, Cedar Mountain at 10,128 feet, Three Knolls at 10,128 feet and Andy Nelson Peak at 10,033 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.
Holding ground: Dry Valley, Horse Hollow and Death Hollow
Below them sit Dry Valley at 8,827 feet, Horse Hollow at 8,638 feet, Death Hollow at 8,632 feet, Houchen Hollow at 8,428 feet and Dan Leigh Hollow at 8,428 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Sand Spring, Larson Spring and Elderberry Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 3,225 mapped stream reaches, 41 lakes, 848 stock tanks and 188 springs. Named sources include Sand Spring, Larson Spring, Elderberry Spring, Olsen Spring, Cooks Spring and House 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 17%, BLM 15% 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 2,700 feet to 8,767 feet, averaging 5,776 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit 29 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 2,700–8,767 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,776 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 1,722.8 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- BLM — 15%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 17%
Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 848 tanks
- 188 springs
- 3,225 stream segments
- 41 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: Gooseberry Point (10,347 ft), Andy Nelson Peak (10,033 ft), Strawberry Point (8,967 ft), Sugarloaf Mountain (7,953 ft)
Holding ground: Deer Hollow (9,588 ft), The Saddle (9,402 ft), Webster Flat (9,164 ft), Sand Spring, Larson Spring
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 29
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit 29 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
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 17 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 3,468 | 0.0% | 17 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 1,368 | 0.2% | 27 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 27 |
Data from 2022 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's draw recap has no bighorn sheep record we can tie to unit 29. 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.
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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