Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south (Book Cliffs, Little Creek/South)
Utah Hunting Guide — Bison
Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south is a hunt unit and covers about 1,379 square miles. Ground runs from 4,520 to 8,553 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, Little Creek/south
Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south is a hunt unit and covers about 1,379 square miles. Ground runs from 4,520 to 8,553 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.
Where to Find Bison in Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south
UDWR's material on unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its bison live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. It runs to about 1,379 square miles.
What bounds unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south
UDWR has unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south NEED DESCRIPTION. 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: Roan Peaks, Went Ridge and Little Creek Ridge
Named high points inside the unit include Roan Peaks at 9,481 feet, Went Ridge at 9,291 feet, Little Creek Ridge at 9,118 feet, Diamond Ridge at 8,863 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. On open country these animals live on visibility and distance.
Holding ground: Ballard Draw, Surveyors Hole and Hells Hole
Below them sit Ballard Draw at 7,790 feet, Surveyors Hole at 7,692 feet, Hells Hole at 7,668 feet, Harmes Canyon at 7,614 feet and Trail Canyon at 7,312 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: Trough Spring, Tom Spring and Oak Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 2,089 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes, 207 stock tanks and 64 springs. Named sources include Trough Spring, Tom Spring, Oak Spring and Red 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 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 4,520 feet to 8,553 feet, averaging 6,116 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,520–8,553 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,116 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 1,379 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
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
- 207 tanks
- 64 springs
- 2,089 stream segments
- 2 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: Roan Peaks (9,481 ft), Went Ridge (9,291 ft), Little Creek Ridge (9,118 ft), Diamond Ridge (8,863 ft)
Holding ground: Nine Hole (9,227 ft), Bogart Canyon (7,972 ft), Ballard Draw (7,790 ft), Trough Spring, Tom 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, Little Creek/south
Bison Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bison row for unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south 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 | 146 | 2.7% | 12 |
| Archery — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 269 | 0.4% | 12 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (resident) | 5 | 125 | 4.0% | 25 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 25 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 9 | 259 | 3.5% | 18 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 385 | 0.3% | 18 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 13 | 76 | 17.1% | 11 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 77 | 2.6% | 11 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime antlerless (resident) | 8 | 107 | 7.5% | 19 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime antlerless (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 19 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (resident) | 5 | 430 | 1.2% | 27 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime either sex (nonresident) | 5 | 2,323 | 0.2% | 27 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's draw recap has no bison record we can tie to unit Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south. 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