Unit Beaver, East
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Beaver, East lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 799 square miles. Ground runs from 6,120 to 10,028 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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 Beaver, East
Unit Beaver, East lies in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Millard and Piute counties and covers about 799 square miles. Ground runs from 6,120 to 10,028 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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 Beaver, East
UDWR's material on unit Beaver, East stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk 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 799 square miles.
What bounds unit Beaver, East
UDWR has unit Beaver, East Boundary begins at I-15 and I-70; east on I-70 to US-89; south on US-89 to SR-20; west on SR-20 to I-15; north on I-15 to I-70. 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: 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. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.
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 248 mapped stream reaches, 17 lakes, 51 stock tanks and 13 springs. Named sources include Dock Spring, Big Swamp Springs, Baker Spring, Redcedar Spring, Burnt Spring and Adobe Yard Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
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 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 6,120 feet to 10,028 feet, averaging 7,893 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Beaver, East terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 6,120–10,028 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,893 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 798.7 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 51 tanks
- 13 springs
- 248 stream segments
- 17 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 Beaver, East
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Beaver, East 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 EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for elk in unit Beaver, East, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,715 applicants for 9 licences, 0.5% drawn, 30 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 1,388 applicants for 1 licences, 0.1% drawn, 30 bonus points needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 601 applicants for 2 licences, 0.3% drawn, 25 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 546 applicants for 22 licences, 4% drawn, no bonus points needed
Utah draws on bonus points in a weighted random draw, not in point order, so the figure above is what it happened to take that year rather than a threshold you can plan to reach. More points buy more chances, never a turn. There are 5 further season-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.
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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