Utah Elk Black Bear

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Black Bear

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless lies in Grand County and covers about 88 square miles. Ground runs from 7,103 to 8,660 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 Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

Where to Find Elk in Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless and says nothing about where the elk 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 Grand County. It runs to about 88 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Steer Ridge, Diamond Ridge and Sego Canyon

UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless in Grand County with a boundary that runs on Steer Ridge, Diamond Ridge and Sego Canyon, 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: Went Ridge, Little Creek Ridge and Santio Knolls

Named high points inside the unit include Went Ridge at 9,291 feet, Little Creek Ridge at 9,118 feet and Santio Knolls at 8,718 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.

Holding ground: Supply Canyon, One Eye Canyon and She Canyon

Below them sit Supply Canyon at 7,175 feet, One Eye Canyon at 6,979 feet, She Canyon at 6,928 feet, Bogart Canyon at 7,972 feet and Buck Canyon at 7,889 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 5 mapped stream reaches, 1 stock tanks and 25 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 7,103 feet to 8,660 feet, averaging 8,028 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

7,103–8,660 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,028 ft ; peaks can run higher.
88.4 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1 tanks
25 springs
5 stream segments

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: Went Ridge (9,291 ft), Little Creek Ridge (9,118 ft), Santio Knolls (8,718 ft)

Holding ground: Bogart Canyon (7,972 ft), Ballard Draw (7,790 ft), Harmes Canyon (7,614 ft)

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 Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

UDWR's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless at muzzleloader 22%, archery 18% and rifle 28%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. 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 Went Ridge, Little Creek Ridge and Santio Knolls

Take a position on one of Went Ridge (9,291 ft), Little Creek Ridge (9,118 ft) and Santio Knolls (8,718 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 5 mapped stream reaches and 1 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

Season normals here run Sep 81/50°F, Oct 67/37°F and Nov 52/26°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, 1.2 in. in Oct and 0.8 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CR 211 / BLM 211

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 Went Ridge, Little Creek Ridge and Santio Knolls as places to see from, and Bogart Canyon, Ballard Draw and Harmes Canyon 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

88 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 Green River, about 33 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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Getting in and staying out: unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

Named routes and what they need

CR 211;BLM 211 — 1.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

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

Green River — 33.4 mi · groceries, lodging

Season weather and signal

Jan39° / 16° · 0.7" precip
Aug90° / 59° · 0.8" precip
Sep81° / 50° · 1.1" precip
Oct67° / 37° · 1.2" precip
Nov52° / 26° · 0.8" precip
Dec39° / 16° · 0.8" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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

Muzzleloader22%

Archery18%

Rifle28%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless 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)	2	45	4.4%	24
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	24
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	3	47	6.4%	16
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	16
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	2	49	4.1%	2
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	50	2.0%	2
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	3	85	3.5%	19
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	69	1.4%	19
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident)	1	52	1.9%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

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

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for elk in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 174 applicants for 2 licences, 1.1% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Multi-season, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 52 applicants for 1 licences, 1.9% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 47 applicants for 3 licences, 6.4% drawn, 16 bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 45 applicants for 2 licences, 4.4% drawn, 24 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. 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.

Black Bear Hunting in Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless lies in Grand County and covers about 88 square miles. Ground runs from 7,103 to 8,660 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 Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless and says nothing about where the black bear stand inside it. 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 County. It runs to about 88 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Steer Ridge, Diamond Ridge and Sego Canyon

UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless in Grand County with a boundary that runs on Steer Ridge, Diamond Ridge and Sego Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Went Ridge, Little Creek Ridge and Santio Knolls

Named high points inside the unit include Went Ridge at 9,291 feet, Little Creek Ridge at 9,118 feet and Santio Knolls at 8,718 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears on dry country work the drainages with fruit in them and little else.

Holding ground: Ballard Draw, Harmes Canyon and Segundo Canyon

Below them sit Ballard Draw at 7,790 feet, Harmes Canyon at 7,614 feet, Segundo Canyon at 7,228 feet, Supply Canyon at 7,175 feet and One Eye Canyon at 6,979 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 5 mapped stream reaches, 1 stock tanks and 25 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

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

7,103–8,660 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,028 ft ; peaks can run higher.
88.4 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1 tanks
25 springs
5 stream segments

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: Went Ridge (9,291 ft), Little Creek Ridge (9,118 ft), Santio Knolls (8,718 ft)

Holding ground: Bogart Canyon (7,972 ft), Ballard Draw (7,790 ft), Harmes Canyon (7,614 ft)

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 Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless 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 Went Ridge, Little Creek Ridge and Santio Knolls

Take a position on one of Went Ridge (9,291 ft), Little Creek Ridge (9,118 ft) and Santio Knolls (8,718 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. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

There are 5 mapped stream reaches and 1 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

Getting past the roads: CR 211 / BLM 211

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

What a day here costs you

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. We have no black bear 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless

Named routes and what they need

CR 211;BLM 211 — 1.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

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

Green River — 33.4 mi · groceries, lodging

Season weather and signal

Jan39° / 16° · 0.7" precip
Aug90° / 59° · 0.8" precip
Sep81° / 50° · 1.1" precip
Oct67° / 37° · 1.2" precip
Nov52° / 26° · 0.8" precip
Dec39° / 16° · 0.8" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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.

Black 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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Black Bear Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless 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.

Black Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	2	35	5.7%	15
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident)	1	10	10.0%	11

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

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UDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 39 applicants for 4 licences, 10.3% drawn, 11 bonus points needed
Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 10 applicants for 1 licences, 10% drawn, 11 bonus points needed

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

CR 211 / BLM 211 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

7,103–8,660 ft, averaging 8,028. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.

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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 81/50°F, 1.1 in.; Oct 67/37°F, 1.2 in.; Nov 52/26°F, 0.8 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Green River (33 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless?

Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless lies in Grand County. UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless with a boundary that runs on Steer Ridge, Diamond Ridge and Sego Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 88 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless at muzzleloader 22%, archery 18% and rifle 28% 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, Little Creek Roadless hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless are at Green River, about 33 miles from the unit's centre. No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data, so plan on dispersed camping.

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

What is the black bear success rate in unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek Roadless 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