Utah Bison Antelope

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek (Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek (pronghorn))

Utah Hunting Guide — Bison, Antelope

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek lies in Grand and Uintah counties and covers about 2,200 square miles. Ground runs from 4,871 to 8,286 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bison success here as high as 85%. 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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Bison Hunting in Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

Where to Find Bison in Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

What UDWR publishes for unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek is a boundary, not a bison map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Grand and Uintah counties. It runs to about 2,200 square miles.

The lines of the unit: White River, Steer Ridge and Green River

UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek in Grand and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on White River, Steer Ridge and Green River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Wagon Road Ridge, Mormon Ridge and Wilcox Point

Named high points inside the unit include Wagon Road Ridge at 9,503 feet, Mormon Ridge at 9,404 feet, Wilcox Point at 9,373 feet, Steer Ridge at 9,349 feet and Post Canyon Ridge at 9,304 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. On open country these animals live on visibility and distance.

Holding ground: Steer Gulch, Short Canyon and Chandler Pasture

Below them sit Steer Gulch at 7,810 feet, Short Canyon at 7,722 feet, Chandler Pasture at 7,699 feet, Willow Flats at 7,678 feet and Walker Draw at 7,667 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Sweet Water Spring, Indian Spring and West Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 116 mapped stream reaches, 12 lakes, 24 stock tanks and 41 springs. Named sources include Sweet Water Spring, Indian Spring, West Spring, Moonwater Springs, Pioche Spring and Oak Springs. 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 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 4,871 feet to 8,286 feet, averaging 6,421 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Tenmile Knoll (8,882 ft), Steer Ridge (8,585 ft), Moon Ridge (8,500 ft), Tom Patterson Ridge (8,416 ft)

Holding ground: Willow Flats (7,678 ft), Bear Canyon (7,498 ft), Weatherbee Canyon (7,435 ft), Sweet Water Spring, Indian 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 Bison in Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

UDWR's own harvest estimates put bison success in unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek at archery 60% and rifle 85%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: glass the edges at first and last light, and let the country tell you where to walk.

Glassing from Corral Canyon Point, Spring Creek Point and Toad Point

Take a position on one of Corral Canyon Point (9,054 ft), Spring Creek Point (9,053 ft), Toad Point (8,980 ft) and West Point (8,974 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. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, the season's timing decides how much daylight movement you will see.

Water against feed

There are 116 mapped stream reaches and 24 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 79/48°F, Oct 64/36°F and Nov 48/25°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 1.5 in. in Sep, 1.3 in. in Oct and 0.6 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Tenmile Knoll, Steer Ridge, Moon Ridge and Tom Patterson Ridge as places to see from, and Willow Flats, Bear Canyon, Weatherbee Canyon and Sweet Water 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

2,200 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 Myton, about 46 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,415 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.

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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.

Bison: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg and a third into the body — behind the heavy shoulder hump, not into it.

Shots to refuse

Nothing marginal. A wounded bison goes a long way and the recovery is enormous.
Have a plan for the pack-out before the shot. This is the heaviest animal you will ever field-dress.
Shoot from a solid rest at a standing animal, inside 200 yards.

Plan the carry: roughly 300– 700 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — a trailer, a chest freezer or a processor on standby — coolers will not cover it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Bison Success Rates

Archery60%

Rifle85%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bison row for unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek 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.

Bison Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	4	183	2.2%	16
Archery — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident)	1	362	0.3%	16
Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (resident)	5	172	2.9%	24
Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	24
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	1	161	0.6%	17
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident)	1	91	1.1%	17
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (resident)	5	702	0.7%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime antlerless (resident)	2	131	1.5%	25
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime antlerless (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	25

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

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UDWR's draw recap has no bison record we can tie to unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek. 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.

Antelope Hunting in Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek lies in Grand and Uintah counties and covers about 2,200 square miles. Ground runs from 4,871 to 8,286 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 Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

UDWR's material on unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn 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 Grand and Uintah counties. It runs to about 2,200 square miles.

The lines of the unit: White River, Steer Ridge and Green River

UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek in Grand and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on White River, Steer Ridge and Green River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Spring Creek Ridge, McPherson Range and Bear Trap Knoll

Named high points inside the unit include Spring Creek Ridge at 9,262 feet, McPherson Range at 9,066 feet, Bear Trap Knoll at 9,066 feet, Corral Canyon Point at 9,054 feet and Spring Creek Point at 9,053 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Pinto Canyon, Bear Canyon and Weatherbee Canyon

Below them sit Pinto Canyon at 7,507 feet, Bear Canyon at 7,498 feet, Weatherbee Canyon at 7,435 feet, Wild Horse Basin at 7,363 feet and Wolf Flat at 7,322 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: Secret Spring, Charlie Brown Spring and Pine Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 116 mapped stream reaches, 12 lakes, 24 stock tanks and 41 springs. Named sources include Secret Spring, Charlie Brown Spring, Pine Spring, Marble Spring, Little Doggie Spring and Flat Rock 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

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Tenmile Knoll (8,882 ft), Steer Ridge (8,585 ft), Moon Ridge (8,500 ft), Tom Patterson Ridge (8,416 ft)

Holding ground: Willow Flats (7,678 ft), Bear Canyon (7,498 ft), Weatherbee Canyon (7,435 ft), Sweet Water Spring, Indian 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 Pronghorn in Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek 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 Walker Point, Tenmile Knoll and Slough Canyon Point

Take a position on one of Walker Point (8,903 ft), Tenmile Knoll (8,882 ft), Slough Canyon Point (8,810 ft) and Hill Creek Point (8,761 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, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 116 mapped stream reaches and 24 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

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Tenmile Knoll, Steer Ridge, Moon Ridge and Tom Patterson Ridge as places to see from, and Willow Flats, Bear Canyon, Weatherbee Canyon and Sweet Water 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

2,200 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 Myton, about 46 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,415 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.

What we can't tell you

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. Settle access before the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no pronghorn success figure for this unit that survives checking against UDWR's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

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.

Antelope: 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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Antelope Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek 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.

Antelope Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	46	170	27.1%	28
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	5	166	3.0%	28
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	13	23	56.5%	4
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	32	3.1%	4
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	49	142	34.5%	9
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	6	196	3.1%	9

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 Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek. 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

No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data — plan on dispersed camping and check the land status first.

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Road Conditions

Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

4,871–8,286 ft, averaging 6,421. Enough relief to separate summer from winter range.

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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 79/48°F, 1.5 in.; Oct 64/36°F, 1.3 in.; Nov 48/25°F, 0.6 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

Myton (46 mi), East Carbon (46 mi), Mack (47 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek?

Unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek lies in Grand and Uintah counties. UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek with a boundary that runs on White River, Steer Ridge and Green River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 2,200 square miles.

What is the bison success rate in unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put bison success in unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek at archery 60% and rifle 85% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek are at Myton, about 46 miles from the unit's centre, with East Carbon at about 46 miles. No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data, so plan on dispersed camping.

Can you hunt unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek on public land?

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek?

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek 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